So I know what most people here think about Cymatics and their Academy.FM portal. I paid like $400CADfor that project thinking "Great, I will be able to focus ONLY on Music Production tutorials and not get distracted by other videos on YouTube and be a part of a decent community".
They scrapped the project like a year later and there was barely any interaction from the community and the videos are mostly sub-par, recorded unprofessionally or missing some valuable technical depth. Tough to believe they would call such tutorials "Masterclasses" YET I still managed to find some use to them but I am saying that for the price, they should have been MUCH better.
Look at Masterclass.Com. You get a lot more for less (though it's an annual subscription) but the level of quality is amazing as industry professionals are delivering the content.
I decided to get my money's worth and started the Ableton Masterclass and left a comment last night. This morning, the comment section is gone. I don't understand why they are so sneaky and how anyone still trusts them and their sleazy marketing strategies. All those web pages with timers ticking down saying you will miss out on a great opportunity yadda-yadda...
Again, the content is there... You can learn from it. Point is. I paid that crazy amount of money in order to have a continued upload process of more masterclasses and content and be a part of a large community and get their support. So they removed a lot of what they promised but never refunded us.
Yes they sent us a $200 gift card to their store (which since then was stripped off a lot of what was on there and now there's barely anything you can get) let alone a lot of this stuff ends up being given to you for free through them if you follow the right trail of links or for cheaper than what it is originally sold for. So what is the value of this $200 gift card?
Furthermore, on their Masterclass the instructor Noah (Haterade) is using one of their sample packs and sound banks I never got from them. How can you tell me to follow this masterclass if I don't have the same sounds? My result will be completely different and I wouldn't know if I adjusted the parameters correctly as I can't compare the sounds before and after.
I know this is kind of old news but I decided to go back to their portal and make the best of it since you can still learn something on there and it was just needed to be said when I noticed what they did.
They scrapped the project like a year later and there was barely any interaction from the community and the videos are mostly sub-par, recorded unprofessionally or missing some valuable technical depth. Tough to believe they would call such tutorials "Masterclasses" YET I still managed to find some use to them but I am saying that for the price, they should have been MUCH better.
Look at Masterclass.Com. You get a lot more for less (though it's an annual subscription) but the level of quality is amazing as industry professionals are delivering the content.
I decided to get my money's worth and started the Ableton Masterclass and left a comment last night. This morning, the comment section is gone. I don't understand why they are so sneaky and how anyone still trusts them and their sleazy marketing strategies. All those web pages with timers ticking down saying you will miss out on a great opportunity yadda-yadda...
Again, the content is there... You can learn from it. Point is. I paid that crazy amount of money in order to have a continued upload process of more masterclasses and content and be a part of a large community and get their support. So they removed a lot of what they promised but never refunded us.
Yes they sent us a $200 gift card to their store (which since then was stripped off a lot of what was on there and now there's barely anything you can get) let alone a lot of this stuff ends up being given to you for free through them if you follow the right trail of links or for cheaper than what it is originally sold for. So what is the value of this $200 gift card?
Furthermore, on their Masterclass the instructor Noah (Haterade) is using one of their sample packs and sound banks I never got from them. How can you tell me to follow this masterclass if I don't have the same sounds? My result will be completely different and I wouldn't know if I adjusted the parameters correctly as I can't compare the sounds before and after.
I know this is kind of old news but I decided to go back to their portal and make the best of it since you can still learn something on there and it was just needed to be said when I noticed what they did.