HOFA Topic Course
Sound Design
Modules: 4
Practical tasks: 1
Course duration: 2 months
Price: $400
Course content
- Sampling, synthesis, effects and recording for sound design
- Creating your own sounds
- Sound design for movies, media and games
- Working with modern synthesizers
Your benefits
- Multimedia learning in the online campus
- Support by phone, chat & email
- Detailed analysis of your sound design
- Access to all studio workshops
- Access to all HOFA plugins
- Graduates with the Sound Design certificate
▶︎Complete your education
Do you want the full range of know-how for outstanding music productions?
You will learn everything you need with the state-certified audio engineering program AUDIO DIPLOMA. It includes all the HOFA-College online courses and even gives you the opportunity to subsequently study for a bachelor’s degree in just one year.
Start your complete education now and save on costs.
Get started straightaway
- HOFA Topic Courses can be completed with all current DAWs such as Cubase, Logic, Studio One, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, FL Studio etc.
- Expert knowledge from fascinating areas of music production
- Join us every month for free workshops in the HOFA studios or watch them via livestream.
We are there for you
- Throughout the course, a team of professional audio engineers will be at your side to provide advice and assistance – by email, chat & phone.
- Exclusive access to the HOFA Forum
- Interesting exercises to work on and submit
- Detailed analyses of your exercises and individual feedbacks by the HOFA tutors
State-certified
- Officially approved and certified education
- The costs of education might be tax-deductable (depending on your location).
- Use your student ID to buy hardware and software from various manufacturers at discounted prices
- Graduates receive a certificate for each topic course.
Live from the HOFA-Studios
As a HOFA-College student you can also attend fascinating online workshops on audio engineering held in the HOFA studios. Recordings of the live streams can be found in the Online Campus afterwards.
In addition to the experienced tutors from our studios, many experts from the music business hold workshops as well.
Learn audio engineering everywhere.
The HOFA Online Campus gives you access to all your learning content via your computer, tablet and smartphone at any time.
This way, you learn multimedia-based with video tutorials, studio workshops, texts, sound examples, complete studio productions & practical exercises – no matter if you are at home or on the road…
Your certified degree.
After completing the course, you will receive the Sound Design Certificate, which proves your professional competence in this field.
With HOFA online courses to a Bachelor’s degree.
This course is also part of the AUDIO DIPLOMA online course bundle. With the DIPLOMA degree, you qualify for a Bachelor’s degree in Audio Engineering & Music Production. This top-up degree program takes just one year to complete and is available part-time from home.
For free during the course:
All 48 plugins from HOFA
- IQ-Series EQ, IQ-Series Reverb, IQ-Series Transient, IQ-Series Limiter, IQ-Series Comp, IQ-Series DeEsser & IQ-Series Analyser
- The entire HOFA mastering suite CD-Burn.DDP.Master PRO
- HOFA SYSTEM effect suite with Saturator, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Algoverb...
- All other plugins from HOFA
With the award-winning plugins from HOFA, you have the best tools for your online course and your productions. Of course, the HOFA online courses can also be done with plugins from other manufacturers.
Discounts on software & hardware
You can use your Student ID to buy hardware and software from various manufacturers such as Ableton, Adam Audio, Adobe, Avid, Apple, Steinberg, Waves, HOFA-Plugins, HOFA-Akustik, etc. Almost all DAWs and plugins can be purchased with up to 50% educational discount.
FAQ
How much time should I plan for the course?
Depending on your previous knowledge in audio engineering & music production and your personal learning goals you should plan 5-10 hours per week for this course.
Many of our students complete the HOFA online courses parallel to their job.
If I decide to do the DIPLOMA course later, will this course count towards my degree?
When do I have to take which exams?
Technical requirements
You will need a pair of speakers or headphones and an average PC or Mac.
Any of the following audio software (DAW) can be used to complete the online course:
Ableton Live | Apple Logic | Avid Pro Tools | Cockos Reaper | Image Line FL Studio | Magix Samplitude | PreSonus Studio One | Propellerhead Reason | Steinberg Cubase | or similar.
An audio interface is recommended, but not essential.
If you are not sure which software and hardware to use, please get in touch with us.
HOFA Topic Course
Sound Design
Modules: 4
Practical tasks: 1
Course duration: 2 months
Price: $400
German Association for
Audio Professionals
