VIP Lo-Fi Hip Hop tutorials and competition
We are excited to release a brand new set of tutorials on to the Charanga VIP Studio Sessions platform – all designed to help everyone relax at this unusual time. The video series focuses on the Lo-Fi Hip
Music production made simple
A new-look online studio, expert tutorials by contemporary artists, support for home learning, and more. We work with schools, community organisations and partners to ensure young people can take part in regular music-making activities.
What’s new in VIP:
VIP videos introduce subscribers to the basics of Cubase
VIP Studio Sessions users will find a new series of tutorial videos on the platform showing them how to create Rap Beats in Cubase, the popular music creation software package. The videos demonstrate how to create
VIP partners with PQA, the leading youth film academy
We are really excited to announce a new partnership between VIP Studio Sessions and the Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA) – the UK’s leading youth film academy and largest provider of film and TV education. PQA students
VIP videos for teachers and project coordinators
VIP Studio Sessions subscribers will find four new CPD videos on our online music platform. The resources are aimed at teachers and project coordinators, and offer helpful advice on how to get the most from the
Supporting teachers and music leaders
Inspire your KS3, GCSE and BTEC students, and all the young people you work with, to create, produce and release music.
VIP has been purpose-built to support the teaching of contemporary music genres. Giving you the means to deliver your music lesson content remotely, it's an excellent tool to encourage more KS3, BTEC and GCSE students and others to get into music.
The online recording studio also turns every ordinary PC/Mac into a music computer and young people can use it 24/7 anywhere they can get online.
Watch the introduction video to learn more.
Help for teachers includes
Yr 10 loved it! They’ve been going on about it for ages. They’ve all got computers and the internet and now they’ve got the tools to log in and create music at home.
Teacher, New Rickstones Academy
The workshops were great and the level of engagement and sense of achievement very high.
Head of Education, The St Aubyn Centre
We’ve never had such a high amount of engagement — they were buzzing.
Music teacher, Castleford Academy in Wakefield
Young People
VIP Studio Sessions gives you everything you need to create, produce and release your own music including an online recording studio.
Make Beats
Learn to produce beats in styles such as Hip Hop, House, Grime, Dubstep, and more.
You’ll start from the basics of how to load up your software all the way through to finishing a track, ready to play in a club or work with a vocalist.
Write Lyrics & Songs
Here you’ll learn how to write lyrics and come up with song ideas.
Progressing all the way through from developing concepts, to performing live and making sure you’re ready to get in the studio.
Record & Mix
Learn how to produce finished music starting from the basics of what equipment you might need and how to set up, going all the way through to how to record vocalists & musicians, how to make your tracks sound great and to get them ready for the world to hear.
Release & Promote
Find out how to release, promote and share your music and understand the music business. Learn the best ways to get your music heard, look at music in the modern world and get professional feedback and career advice about the music industry
Try it yourself — take a free 30-day trial
See what VIP can do for your school.
- ✔ Fully-functional 30-day free trial
- ✔ Includes online recording studio
- ✔ No software to install
There’s no obligation to subscribe afterwards and we don't take any payment details.
Online Recording Studio
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A powerful online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and over 700 free loops and sounds.
Soundation is a revolutionary sequencer and audio recording programme that lives entirely online, in the cloud. It works on any computer with internet access (Mac or PC) and doesn’t require any hardware setup and there are no problems making the software run.
There’s so much you can do with this online recording studio:
- Manipulate existing audio loops (provided with the software)
- Import audio files from your computer
- Create new audio by recording straight into Soundation (you can use your computer’s microphone, or a USB microphone, or a more complex audio interface setup)
- Play MIDI data straight into Soundation (a virtual instrument sound library is included).
- Mix and add effects (reverb/EQ/compression etc)
- Build up multi track sequences
- Save and store your work online, or export it as a file from the web onto your hard drive.
About the author
VIP Studio Sessions was created by leading musician and producer, Max Wheeler.
Max is a musician/producer, consultant, author and youth music tutor, specialising in Rap, Urban & Electronic music, soundtracks, remixes and peer-to-peer education projects.
He has conducted over 200 workshops across the country teaching Rap, beatmaking, songwriting and production to everyone from young offenders to social workers and in primary schools, special needs projects and community groups. His work on lyric writing with young people is soon to be highlighted in a peer reviewed journal by academic Luke Dickens.
As a recording artist on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label, Max is one half of duo Anushka with over 750k plays on Soundcloud, an album and world tour in 2014 and Radio 1 plaudits from Annie Mac, Skream and others.
Try it yourself — take a free 30-day trial
See what VIP can do for your school.
- ✔ Fully-functional 30-day free trial
- ✔ Includes online recording studio
- ✔ No software to install
There’s no obligation to subscribe afterwards and we don't take any payment details.
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