Creative Projects with Acid Music Studio Online Course
About this Course
Discover a series of creative Acid Music Studio projects you can use with your middle school students.
By the end of this course you will know how to incorporate Acid into your existing music curriculum through student projects that involve arranging and composing with loops, recording original material, making backing tracks, scoring films and digital storytelling.
You will be walked through each project step-by-step so you can use it with your students straight away.
Course Format
This course is available when you join the Midnight Music Community. Membership to the Midnight Music Community gives you access to this course, and 11 other online courses, plus lesson plans, help and advice.
Course Outline
The Creative Projects with Acid Online course will cover a range of skills, including the following:
Acid skills covered include the following:
- how to start a new project
- how to change project settings
- learn how to navigate the loop browser
- add new MIDI tracks
- change instrument sounds
- record from a MIDI keyboard or the Musical Typing window
- edit MIDI parts
- export and share your music
Acid skills covered include the following:
- importing MIDI files
- editing loops
- selecting and changing instruments
- beat-mapping audio loops
- saving loops
- layering
- adding effects
- fade-ins and fade-outs
- volume and panning envelopes
- mixing skills
- saving and exporting projects
Skills covered:
- importing a video
- playback and some shortcuts
- all about snapping and when to use it
- the importance of zooming
- searching for and adding sound effects
- using hit points/time markers to place sound effects accurately
- creating and editing sound effects
- adding background music by using existing loops
- how to scrub through your video frame by frame
- how to set up a software instrument track
- how to insert a soft synth
- how to select and edit different sounds
- how to record MIDI with a keyboard
- how to edit MIDI recordings
- how to transpose loops
- using volume envelopes to create fade-ins and fade-outs
- muting and soloing tracks
- Tips for recording narration in a busy classroom
- how to edit mistakes
- how to add intro and outro music
- how to create fade-ins and outs
- how to export and share your finished creation
- how to combine your exported Acid project with images
- Ways you can expand your content library: places to find free and legal music and loops
*Midnight Music reserves the right to alter course content when necessary.