How long is the Electronic Music Producer Program?

120 hours of live online training, or 80 hours taken one-to-one.

How much does the program cost?

$4,999 plus a $100 registration fee (USA pricing). Payment plans are available in some locations - ask when you enquire.

Do I need experience to join?

No. The program is built for the next generation of artists and producers, whether you are starting from scratch or have been self-teaching and want to fill the gaps in your workflow.

How many students are in a class?

No more than six, so the instructor can work with each student's own tracks.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes. You earn a certificate on completion, from an Ableton Certified Training Center.

Electronic Music Producer Certificate Program

Certified Electronic Music Producer Program

If you're ready to take your music seriously and want to master one of the world’s most powerful DAWs, this is where your journey begins. Whether you're starting from scratch or you’ve been self-teaching and want to fill in workflow gaps, our 120-hour Music Producer Program in Ableton Live Suite is built to help you produce high-quality, release-ready tracks while earning a certificate that proves your skills.

Designed for the next generation of artists and producers, this immersive course is hands-on, practical, and focused on results. You’ll work directly on your own music, receiving detailed feedback and guidance tailored to your goals and your genre.

Ableton DAW · Let’s Get Going!

→How to set up: Audio and the preferences window
→Explore what makes Ableton different to other DAWs
→Applications of session view and arrangement view: when to use which
→Live concepts: clips / browser / scenes / library
→Launching clips
→The concept of Ableton’s unique warp engine
→An introduction to FX
→An introduction to instruments

Ableton DAW · Creating With MIDI & Audio

→How to quantize audio
→How warping works
→Clips – exploring clip view & properties of clips
→How to make beats with Drum Racks & Simpler sampling
→Live’s effects and employing third-party effects
→How to record MIDI and set up live looping
→Basic routing and resampling
→Automation – how to create dynamic change in arrangements

Ableton DAW · DJing and Live Performance

→Preparing whole tracks (warping) and harmonic mixing
→‘On-the-fly’DJ effects
→Grouping tracks and basic routing
→How to use MIDI controllers more effectively / mouse-free control
→Bespoke Ableton controllers – Akai, Push and Novation
→Structuring your sets & using loops
→How to record your performance & edit the arrangement view
→Bouncing down

Ableton DAW · MIDI Tracks and Composing with Virtual Instruments

→Simpler – Learn to unlock the full potential of this simple sampler
→Drum Rack – Programming beats, how to chop up loops, manipulating sounds, vocals and tracks – making rhythms from any sound source and also exploring the technique of Slice to MIDI.
→Grooves & how to extract them
→Using & controlling virtual instruments from third party developers
→Setting up controllers via MIDI keyboard or drum pad
→How to get creative with MIDI effects

Ableton DAW · Recording Techniques and an Introduction to Sound Design

→Balancing – an introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
→The recording patch in detail, & an introduction to gain structure
→EQ and compression for recording
→Introduction to sound waves, frequency & amplitude
→Foldback, headphone mixes & latency
→Microphones overview and stereo mic-ing techniques
→Recording specific aspects of Ableton
→Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
→How to compile audio takes

Ableton DAW · Advanced Techniques

→Advanced warping – manipulate classical music, a capellas and anything else without beats!
→Clip envelopes – how to use the unique loop-based technique, unique to Ableton, for automation on audio fx,, midi fx and instruments. Learn to achieve complex music, sound and rhythm manipulation with ease.
→Multi-track warping
→An introduction to Racks & Chains – their powerful hidden features. Also includes how to layer FX and instruments
→Bringing all automation types together – and how to create build-ups and break-downs with complex sounds.

Sound Design in Ableton · Overview and Goals

→Live’s Instruments and effects allow for any synthesis method or effect to be integrated in an easy workflow, along with automation.
→When doing sound design we learn not only how we can create sounds from scratch, but also how to control them in an evolving way with automation as part of our composition.
→This knowledge also enables us to tweak any library preset to our own specific needs when writing music and it will help us get a more exciting and personalized sound.
→The techniques learned here can also be applied to plug-in and hardware synths.
→A track with the right sound design is a track halfway mixed.

Sound Design in Ableton · Analog Heaven

→Learn the ins and outs of Subtractive Synthesis using all the basic building blocks needed to make those warm, fuzzy or resonant sounds we know from many classic recordings.
→From crispy, funky baselines over acidy dance grooves, shiny leads, dreamy pads to talking synths.
→Everything can be created using Live’s Analog.

Sound Design in Ableton · Smooth Operator

→FM Synthesis has been part of the bedrock of electronic music since the days of early Synthwave.
→While originally often used to mimic the sounds of conventional acoustic or electric instruments, i.e an electric bass, a sparkling e-piano, bells, harps or marimbas, It was later embraced for woofer shaking deep house basses until it was discovered by Dubstep and Grime producers for those grinding gritty and aggressive timbres.
→FM techniques are also an essential building block in modern Subtractive or Wavetable Synths.

Sound Design in Ableton · Wavetable

→This latest edition to the Ableton palette is a true gem and combines many different synthesis methods and tools in one place.
→Unlike the previous two synths, it provides an extensive collection of different oscillator wavetables that are made up of sonically related timbres.
→This makes them ideal for complex, gradually evolving sounds to cover just about any musical genre.
→From grimey, synth wavy to more organic sounds.
→This synth uses subtractive and FM, but also wave folding and warping techniques to modify the wavetable source sound.
→The modulation possibilities with LFOs and Envelopes are deep, and Wavetable is a breeze to program, thanks to its great graphic interface.

Sound Design in Ableton · Physical Modeling

→One of the later additions to the synthesis stable, due to its reliance on more advanced digital technology.
→It’s, ironically also the one that comes closest to exploring natural sound and real world acoustics.
→We can use this to recreate resonant behavior of conventional instruments and physical objects to create quasi acoustic timbres or even new sound of non-existing instruments.
→This is a totally different approach to create sound from scratch and is immensely rich and riveting in its possibilities.
→During this segment we will dive into Corpus, Tension, and Electric.

Sound Design in Ableton · Simpler and Simpler

→While Synthesizers allow us to create sounds from ground up and therefore offer more flexibility, every type of instrumentation can be done with sample based sound design.
→Samples of conventional instruments or of any other acoustic event can be played from a keyboard or pad controller.
→However these instruments give us also far reaching synth-like possibilities to modify and process the sampled sources into something totally unrecognizable… or otherworldly with the help of granular synthesis.

Sound Design in Ableton · Creative Effects

→We focus on the more transformative effects that help enhance the sound design, or even take it to another level.
→The standard mixing effects will be covered in the mixing classes.
→Spacial Echo, Spectral Time, Grain Delay, Drive and Color Redux, Saturator, (Pedal), Corpus, Reverb and Resonance Hybrid Reverb, Resonator, Spectral Resonator, Modulation Frequency Shifter, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger M4L.
→Some of the Max for Live devices help us expand Ableton’s functionality in essential ways, by creating movement and evolving sound changes that were otherwise not possible.

Mixing & Mastering · Environment, Acoustics, EQ & Separation

→Speaker design for studio monitors
→How to handle your home studio acoustics
→Stereo, mono, stereo & 5.1 surround sound software
→The delicate art of panning and balance
→Specialist EQ tutoring to help your production

Mixing & Mastering · Dynamics

→Why is compression so important and how does it work
→Getting to grips with parameters
→Circuitry within compression & other digital emulations
→Parallel processing dos and don'ts
→De-essing and gating techniques
→Achieve amazing clarity in your mix with dynamic controllers

Mixing & Mastering · Delay, Reverb and other Awesome FX

→Learn about different types of delay and reverb
→An in-depth look at all parameters
→Spatialization with convolution delays and reverbs
→Harmonizers, pitch shifters, flangers, phasers and creative FX
→How FX can transform your tracks and really bring them to life

Mixing & Mastering · Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design

→Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
→Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
→The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
→EQ and compression for recording
→Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
→Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
→Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
→Recording specific aspects of Ableton
→Compiling audio takes

Mixing & Mastering · Mixing Electronic Music

→Great tips on filters for FX, punch, ducking and side chaining dynamic controllers
→The best ways to use delay and reverb
→How to turn subtle sounds into monsters
→Interesting electronic mixing techniques which apply to all music
→Learn to improve and analyze every element of the mix
→Electronic listening critique (bring in your music)

Mixing & Mastering · Mastering Intro (Click here for full mastering course)

→A/B'ing & how to get the best from your separation and EQ
→Leveling, phasers, EQ & brick wall limiting
→The 'dos and don'ts' of using mastering software & plugins
→Learn about the best metering tools and their application
→Live music listening critique (bring in your music)

Mentoring

→20 hours of working on your music in class!

“I needed to brush up on something, so I called Garnish, as they have the best instructors” – Jamie Jones

Our class sizes are intentionally small, no more than six students per class, so you can learn in a relaxed, collaborative environment. Our purpose-built labs encourage experimentation, creativity, and even the occasional class jam. Because learning to produce the music you love should be inspiring, not overwhelming.

Whether you want to make club bangers, cinematic soundscapes, or experimental grooves, this program gives you the tools, knowledge, and mentorship to make it happen.

Click here to discover qualities that distinguish us.

Testimonials

What our students say.

“I would highly recommend Garnish because besides providing the technical aspects of the course material, the teachers are very knowledgeable about not only Ableton but music production in general, which is a huge help. Garnish provides a great environment for music producers from all walks of life.”

Terry Pham

Questions we hear a lot.

Certified Electronic Music Producer Program

Ableton DAW · Let’s Get Going!

Ableton DAW · Creating With MIDI & Audio

Ableton DAW · DJing and Live Performance

Ableton DAW · MIDI Tracks and Composing with Virtual Instruments

Ableton DAW · Recording Techniques and an Introduction to Sound Design

Ableton DAW · Advanced Techniques

Sound Design in Ableton · Overview and Goals

Sound Design in Ableton · Analog Heaven

Sound Design in Ableton · Smooth Operator

Sound Design in Ableton · Wavetable

Sound Design in Ableton · Physical Modeling

Sound Design in Ableton · Simpler and Simpler

Sound Design in Ableton · Creative Effects

Mixing & Mastering · Environment, Acoustics, EQ & Separation

Mixing & Mastering · Dynamics

Mixing & Mastering · Delay, Reverb and other Awesome FX

Mixing & Mastering · Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design

Mixing & Mastering · Mixing Electronic Music

Mixing & Mastering · Mastering Intro (Click here for full mastering course)

Mentoring

What our students say.

Ableton certified; Apple authorized; world-class facilities; superior roster of instructors.

Who you'll learn from.

Questions we hear a lot.

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What makes Garnish different?

Intro to Simpler and Drum Racks

Pulse Width Modulation and Serial Filtering

Sampler: Create the ultimate drum rack

Sub: Ableton’s Analog: Oscillators

CPU, Disk Load and Track Freeze

Racks in Depth: Zones, Chains and Macro Variations