Comprehensive
Sound Design
Learning Path
What does the program include?
This structured program takes you through every essential skill needed for professional sound design. Each stage builds on the previous one.
You'll work with industry-standard tools and real-world scenarios. The approach is practical from day one.
- Hands-on recording sessions with multiple microphone techniques
- Synthesis fundamentals and modular sound creation
- Digital audio workstation workflows and signal routing
- Sound library management and organization systems
- Mixing and mastering for various delivery formats
Program duration varies by your pace. Most students complete the full curriculum in 16 to 24 weeks.
This stage covers acoustics, waveform properties, and frequency behavior. You'll understand how sound works before manipulating it.
- Physics of sound waves and human hearing range
- Digital audio basics: sample rate, bit depth, file formats
- Introduction to DAW interface and project setup
- Basic recording chain and signal flow
Learn field recording techniques and studio capture methods. You'll build your own sound library from scratch.
- Microphone types and polar patterns
- Environmental recording and noise management
- Audio editing: cutting, fading, time-stretching
- Organizing and tagging sound assets
Create original sounds using synthesizers and samplers. You'll design textures that don't exist in the natural world.
- Subtractive, FM, and wavetable synthesis
- Envelopes, LFOs, and modulation routing
- Effects processing: reverb, delay, distortion
- Layering and sound design strategies
Apply your skills to real projects. You'll work on film scenes, game prototypes, and interactive media.
- Synchronizing audio to picture
- Adaptive audio systems and middleware tools
- Dialogue editing and restoration
- Final mixing and delivery specifications
Who leads the workshops
Ilko Kuzyn
Lead Instructor
Worked on sound for 8 independent films and 12 commercial game titles. Specializes in procedural audio.
Taisa Bortkevych
Synthesis Specialist
Creates custom instrument patches for major production libraries. Teaches modular synthesis and advanced routing.
Zlata Dovbush
Field Recording Expert
Captured environmental audio in 14 countries. Runs workshops on microphone technique and portable recording gear.