Getting Creative with Your DAW

Getting Creative with Your DAW explores a variety of creative production techniques that can be applied in virtually any digital audio workstation. In this course, Gary Hiebner demonstrates practical methods for generating new sounds, creating musical ideas, and transforming audio with common DAW tools. The training begins with techniques such as turning a drum beat into a bass part, using sequencers and arpeggiators to generate melodies and rhythms, and re-pitching audio to create new textures and character. Next, the course covers MIDI chord effects and chord apps for generating chord progressions, stutter gate effects, reverse transitions, extreme time stretching, resampling through a sampler, and creating filtered telephone-style effects and robotic synth voices with pitch correction tools. Additional lessons explore sidechain compression, volume automation for ducking effects, sound layering, MIDI controller mapping, morphing between sounds, creating lo-fi textures, and other creative production techniques that can be incorporated into your workflow.