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
Online Recording Studio
Watch the video
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.
Video: See the Online Studio in action
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.