Certificate in Music Production Using Cubase

1. Introduction (reading)

1. Setting Up Cubase and Creating a Project (video lesson, 64 minutes 55 seconds)1:04:55
2. Organizing a Cubase session and adding tracks (video lesson, 22 minutes 11 seconds)22:11
3. Starting a track with audio loops (video lesson, 11 minutes 9 seconds)11:09Quiz

1. Editing and preparing your tracks (video lesson, 63 minutes 55 seconds)1:03:55
2. Mixing: EQ and frequency (video lesson, 59 minutes 24 seconds)59:24
3. Mixing: inserts, sends and compression (video lesson, 69 minutes 17 seconds)1:09:17
4. Mixing: groups, bus processing and limiting (video lesson, 65 minutes 57 seconds)1:05:57
5. Mixing: automation, analysis and export (video lesson, 48 minutes 15 seconds)48:15Quiz

1. Creating MIDI Drums (video lesson, 61 minutes 12 seconds)1:01:12
2. Editing Drum Tracks (video lesson, 71 minutes 44 seconds)1:11:44Quiz

Anything from Elements upwards works. It was recorded on Elements against a much later release, and unusually, every limitation worked around in the lessons is still a real limitation today, so the workarounds have aged well. If you are on Artist or Pro, two lessons tell you exactly where to skip ahead.

Elements gives you 48 audio tracks, 64 MIDI tracks and 24 instrument tracks, plus 16 group channels and 8 send and return channels. Those numbers have held steady across releases and are generous for a band recording. Most people hit their own patience long before they hit forty-eight audio tracks.

For about half of this course, yes. The setup and mixing modules work in full without one, because they run on imported audio and a free drum plugin. The recording lessons genuinely need hardware, since the whole point is capturing a microphone or an instrument. Interfaces start cheap and last for years.

It is aimed at them more directly than at anyone else. The demo track is a band recording, and there is real content on DI recording, where a guitar or bass goes straight into the interface, alongside microphone technique. If you play and want to record yourself properly, this is the course for it.

Both, in a module of its own. You program MIDI drums that sound played rather than typed and route a drum plugin out to separate groups so each part can be treated on its own. Then you edit a real multi-mic drum recording, including gating the bleed between microphones, which is the fiddly part nobody explains.

It is short and dense: a handful of lessons across four modules and about nine hours of video, plus a good deal more time in Cubase between them. That density is the appeal. There is no padding, and you can realistically go from never having recorded anything to a finished mix in a few weekends.

Yes, included in the subscription with no extra fee. Quizzes sit at the end of the modules at a 75% pass mark and never block your progress, and a twenty-question final exam opens once every lesson and quiz is done. Passing issues a certificate with a verification code and a public link.