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LEARN TO
FINISH TRACKS.

Spring Cohort opens April 7, 2026 · New York City · 4 seats remaining

12 weeks · 3 days/week
Ableton-certified hardware
Max 8 students per cohort
01–03

Sound Design Foundations

You build a synthesizer patch from scratch. You understand why it sounds the way it does.

Three weeks inside the synthesis lab. You learn subtractive, FM, and wavetable synthesis on hardware that forces you to hear every decision. No presets. No shortcuts. By the end of week three you have a sound library that is entirely yours — and the ears to know why each sound works.

Week 1: You synthesize your first original bass patch on the Prophet-6
Week 2: You design a complete drum kit from analog noise sources
Week 3: You export a 32-bar loop with 6 original sounds — nothing sampled
94%

of students complete their first original sound library by week 3

Analog synthesizer hardware with illuminated controls in a dark studio
▶ 128 BPM
BASS_SYNTH
Patch_01
Patch_02
DRUM_KICK
Analog_Kick
NOISE_SRC
White_Noise
Filtered
SUB_OSC
Sub_Layer
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MW

Marcus Webb

Ableton Certified Trainer · 12 years hardware synthesis

Produced under four label imprints across Berlin and Detroit. Teaches synthesis the way he learned it — by breaking things on purpose.

04–06

Arrangement Architecture

You stop making loops. You make tracks with a beginning, a tension, and a release.

The hardest thing for bedroom producers is finishing. Week four you break the loop. Using Ableton's arrangement view on our certified hardware setup, you learn how professional tracks use negative space, tension arcs, and structural contrast. You will finish a complete track in six days.

Week 4: You export your first mastered stem — a 4-minute arrangement
Week 5: You map tension and release in three reference tracks and rebuild one
Week 6: You complete a full arrangement with intro, breakdown, and drop
100%

of students finish a complete 4-minute arrangement in this phase

Ableton Live arrangement view on a large monitor in a dark studio environment
▶ 128 BPM
INTRO
Intro_16
BUILDUP
Build_8
Tension
DROP
Drop_32
BREAKDOWN
Break_16
Rebuild
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SO

Sasha Okonkwo

Releases on Kompakt, Innervisions · 200+ tracks released

Her arrangements have been licensed across three continents. She teaches by dissecting tracks bar-by-bar until students stop hearing music as a monolith and start hearing it as architecture.

07–09

Mixdown & Mastering

You hear the difference between a bedroom mix and a club mix. Then you close that gap.

Our treated rooms don't flatter your mix. 0.3-second decay means you hear everything. Weeks seven through nine are spent learning to trust your ears in an environment that tells the truth — and by week nine, your track is mastered, leveled to streaming standards, and ready to release.

Week 7: You identify and fix the three most common bedroom mix mistakes in your own track
Week 8: You run a full mix session in our treated room — 0.3-second decay, no lies
Week 9: You receive a mastered WAV ready for distribution
0.3s

room decay — our treated studio tells your mix the truth, every time

Large format mixing console with illuminated faders in a professional recording studio
▶ 128 BPM
MASTER
Master_Bus
KICK_BUS
EQ+Comp
SYNTH_BUS
Width
Saturate
REVERB_RET
Room_IR
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DF

Daniel Ferreira

Mastered 400+ commercial releases · LUFS certified

Worked out of São Paulo and Amsterdam for fifteen years. He can diagnose a mix in thirty seconds and explain exactly why it sounds the way it does.

10–12

Release Strategy

You don't graduate with a portfolio. You graduate with a release.

The final three weeks exist for one purpose: your track leaves the studio and enters the world. You learn the infrastructure of independent release — distribution, metadata, playlist pitching, and press. Every student who finishes the program has a release credit. That's not a goal. That's the contract.

Week 10: You pitch your track to three curated label contacts from our network
Week 11: You build a release plan: artwork, metadata, distribution channel, promo strategy
Week 12: Your track is live — on streaming platforms, with your name on it
100%

of graduates have at least one track live on streaming platforms

Producer reviewing release analytics on a laptop screen in a studio setting
▶ 128 BPM
DISTROKID
Submitted
ARTWORK
Approved
METADATA
ISRC_Set
Tags
PROMO
Playlist_Pitch
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YT

Yuki Tanaka

Former A&R at Ninja Tune · Label founder

Signed 40+ artists over a decade at Ninja Tune before founding an independent imprint. She knows exactly what labels listen for — and how to make sure your track gets heard.

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