Cape Audio College - The Institute of Sound Technology

The Pro Tools Master Class

Cape Audio College has been teaching Pro Tools for over a decade and facilitates the most experienced instructors in the business. Take your Pro Tools skills to the next level with the Pro Tools Master Class. The only one of it’s kind in the country offering incredible value, ensuring you are a cut above the rest in terms of employability and skill levels. This program is open to sound engineering graduates, industry professionals and anyone with previous Pro Tools experience. The Pro Tools Master Class is a must if you would like to further your Pro Tools knowledge and really get to grips with this industry standard digital audio workstation.

The Pro Tools Master Class offers a great opportunity to learn and master the new features of Pro Tools software upgrades as they become available. Immerse yourself in the world of Pro Tools, become an ace operator!! Take your skills to new heights, discover the incredible power of Pro Tools with the Cape Audio College Pro Tools Master Class.

With the widest studio user base internationally and locally, Pro Tools is an essential tool for audio based productions in a wide field of career choices. From recording, mixing, mastering engineers to audio visual sound design, dialogue editing and electronic based music production. Give yourself ahead start in the audio industry with the Cape Audio College Pro Tools Masters Class.

Digidesign Pro Tools is the industry leader in digital audio workstations and is accepted as the industry standard both internationally and in South Africa. Covering a wide range of audio productions from music recording, post production, gaming audio and radio broadcast. Pro Tools has a wide acclaimed user base from Nine inch nails, Dr Dre, DJ Vadim, George Lucas, Timberland, Just Blaze, Placebo, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Jamiroquai just to mention a few.

Careers in Audio
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Studio Gallery
Our 13 state of the art studios will ensure your development in the technical field of sound engineering. This truly is the most well equipped training facility in the country. Have a look for yourself.

Students Work

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Syllabus Structure

System configuration

Preferences

Advanced session layout

Advanced view configuration

Advanced workflow procedure

System optimization

Advanced MIDI techniques

MIDI production with virtual instruments

MIDI production with outboard

Advanced Rewire techniques

Sampling with software samplers

Advanced recording techniques

Advanced mixing and editing techniques

Mixing with I/O

Advanced routing

Advanced fade techniques

Combining plug-ins and outboard effects

Advanced automation techniques

Advanced group techniques

Working with play lists

Multi Quicktime video operation

Advanced dialogue editing

Advance sound design

Working with short cuts

Session interchange

File interchange with other DAW software

Dynamic voicing

Hardware selection

Plug-in selection

System compatibility

Working with Digitranslator

Digidelivery

Digi Design control surface integration

Fault finding procedures

Compensating for latency

Navigation of Digi Designs web site

Course Duration:
8 Weeks Totaling: 63 Hours – Starting

07-07-2011 to 15-09-2011

Lecture Times:
Lectures will be held Monday evenings from 14H00 to 17H00.

Studio Time:
4 Hours per week on Wednesdays from 09H00 to 17H00.

Course Structure:
Monday – Theory Lectures 3 hours for the 1st 4 weeks. There after, Practical Based Tuition Wednesday – Practical studio time for 4 hours.