Creating Sounds for Electronic Music
Berklee · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Loudon Stearns
Arts and Humanities
About the course
What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2. What you
The consensus
Every one of the 20 reviews we read gave it 4★ or more. This is the most-upvoted one (3 votes).
“Loudon's awesome teacher. This is how teaching should be done. Straight to the point engineering sounds and not math & calculus equations to explain how things work. He demonstrates it all in practice, not in theory that people couldn't relate.”
Coursera's 4.7 comes from 262 ratings. Of those, 2.3% are 1–2★.
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗