Nate Blaz: Ableton Live, Advanced Live

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Craig Dorety : Build-Your-Own MIDI Controller

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Andy Van Wart: DJing with Ableton Live

Andrew Van Wart is an instructor at the Academy of Art University where he teaches Adobe Creative Suite. On the side, Van Wart creates and mixes electronic music. "I use Ableton Live because it is the most versatile audio software out there with the most minimalistic design." You can hear some of Van Wart's music and DJ mixes at http://soundcloud.com/andywarthol

Danny Piccione : Pro Tools 101

Danny Piccione is a composer, sound designer, and electronic music producer. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Are. Danny designs and programs his own custom software instruments to compose, produce, and perform his music. Examples of Danny's work can be found at dannypiccione.com

Drew Webster : Audio Recording fundamentals for the Home Studio

Drew Webster is a sound designer, mastering engineer and musician. His experience with recording stretches way back to the 1980s, when bands like his were forced to record their demos in crappy studios. Since those days, he has embraced the technology revolution and now runs a professional mastering studio out of his house.

Drew holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, Clark University (Boston) and Ex’pressions Center for New Media. He has worked with artists as diverse as Neil Young, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Leviathan and Vladimir Ovchinnikov. In addition to his mastering business, Drew has 7 years of sound design experience for Lionel Trains and has worked in the advertising industry for 16 years.

He also has a home recording studio with a 24 track digital recorder, an enormous mic cabinet, a pink charvel flying V and loads of pedals and external gear. He actively works in the following audio programs: Logic, Nuendo, Wavelab, Peak, Sound Forge, Ableton Live and Fission. Drew has taught courses at Clark University and has advised several local musicians on how to create and/or improve their home studios. Come take his class and learn how to do it yourself.

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Michael Ferriell Zbyszynski: Max for Live

Michael Ferriell Zbyszynski is a composer, sound artist, performer, and teacher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. His fifteen years of Max programming includes live performance and sound installation work, and many years UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), where he helped write the CNMAT Max/MSP/Jitter Depot, a large library of downloadable Max patches for learning, performing, and composing. He continues to teach their summer Max workshops. He also works with Keith McMillan Instruments and teaches Electronic Music at San Francisco State University.

Playing flute, saxophones, clarinet, Yamaha WX-5, live electronics, or things made from coffee cans and PVC, he has appeared with Respectable Citizen, Roscoe Mitchell, Myra Melford, Frank Gratkowski, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Capacitor Performance Group, Frances-Marie Uitti, at the Other Minds Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Getty Center, and the Montréal Jazz Festival, and has been a resident fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of California, Berkeley, studied at the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland, on a Fulbright Grant, contributes to Make Magazine, and can be heard on the ARTSHIP recording label.

He can be found online at: http://www.mikezed.com