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Proper Berklee Online Partnership

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asked Jul 21, 2019 in Studio One 4 by nicolasfalcon (200 points)
Hey Presonus, current  Berklee online student here, about to learn Ableton Live. I was thinking in asking, how about you guys investing in a  proper partnership with Berklee Online offering a full complete course as they have for Ableton, please?

I already did the Lynda course in Studio One and some other learning videos, you guys recommended and I still feel I don't have a huge grasp of the amazingness that Studio One can offer, this is why I'm going for Ableton now as part of their curriculum.

There is a huge difference in studying in a learning environment where you can have access to a teacher and other students to have feedback.

Hope you can take this into consideration.

Regards

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answered Jul 21, 2019 by chrissederqvist1 (2,420 points)
Wouldn't expect this any time soon.

Berklee Online courses focus on the main-stream applications for music production and like it or not, today this is Ableton Live for most electronic music production and Pro Tools or Logic Pro for studio recording, mastering and sound engineering.

I've used both Ableton Live and Logic Pro for some years before gradually moving to Studio One as my main DAW.

Studio One, although it has matured and in many ways became a much better alternative to the existing main-stream applications, it still is "the new kid on the block", it hasn't had enough time to get incorporated into enough studios to make a real impact yet.

The existing studios have invested years of work (and LOTS of money) refining a "perfect" environment using the hardware and software they're proficient with using, so it will take many years before those studios are willing to adapt to new ways of doing things.

This is mostly related to recording studios and mastering facilities though.

I don't understand the hype around Ableton Live being the preferred DAW for music production and sound design though. To me it still is a peculiar DAW that uses unconventional ways to do things and is far from being my go-to application for making music.

It has great applications as a live performance rig, coupled with Ableton Push, but for general music production I find it to "strange" to be comfortable. And this comes from a guy that has used (and still uses) Propellerhead Reason for certain kind of more sound design centric experimental work. Reason is by most users not familiar with it considered the strangest of them all!

Anyway, good luck with your Ableton course at Berklee Online! Sure you'll get something out of it.
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