Join IMSTA (Intl. Music Software Trade Assoc.) and SAE Institute as they host IMSTA FESTA,
a celebration of music technology packed with Panels, Workshops & Master Classes, Song Critiques,
Demonstrations and more.
Hosting industry experts in an environment where music-makers can network,
interact and learn with each other face-to-face, this annual one-day event is not to be missed.
IMSTA FESTA is a FREE event open to everyone in the music making community; professional and
semi-professional musicians, songwriters, music producers, and audio engineers, as well as music students and educators.
IMSTA FESTA is a FREE event open to everyone in the music making community; professional and semi-professional
musicians, songwriters, music producers, and audio engineers, as well as music students and educators.
Event Highlights:
Register for a FREE class in the IMSTA Master Class Series featuring the most coveted products from your favorite companies.
Visit all of the exhibits to get hands-on experience and even win software!
Attend the IMSTA Panel Series with industry experts to network and learn.
Bring your Song in to have it reviewed by an expert who will provide you with a professional critique. Song Reviews between 2-5pm.
Enter your original song submission into our 2018 Songwriting Competition to win the opportunity to attend Black Rock Studio's in Santorini, Greece!
IMSTA FESTA New York will be taking place at:
Location
Date
Time
SAE Institute New York
218 W 18th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10011
US
September 22, 2018
11:00AM - 6:00PM
Get up close and personal with some of your favourite brands and music software companies at this year's IMSTA FESTA. Exhibitors will be bringing
their latest software and products for our attendees to demo and try out.
Register below (Soon) for a FREE class in the IMSTA Master Class Series featuring the most coveted products from your favorite companies.
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Celemony Melodyne 4
All About Vocals
Learn how to use the new Sound Editor in Melodyne 4 to shape of your sound in new revolutionary ways, the new musically intelligent Harmonic EQ and the Resynthesis Engine and new way to tie into your DAW. Check out the Tempo detection that truly puts the human in charge of the machine.
FabFilter
FabFilter
This Master Class focuses on the ground-breaking Pro-R reverb with its unprecedented 6-band control of frequency decay and tonal balance. Learn how to take this reverb into fresh, new, creative territory. Pro-L 2 limiter takes the world's favorite Limiter to the next level and adds true-peak limiting, extensive loudness metering and much more with the same loud and transparent sound.
Celemony Melodyne 4 The Creative Side of Melodyne
Learn how to use Melodyne 4's extensive toolset for tempo mapping, tempo correction and tempo assignment for remixing; tighten up guitar and bass sounds using the Dynamics tool, or change the character of a piano into an ethereal instrument; create new sounds by copying the spectrum from one track and superimpose onto another; using Melodyne 4's Resynthesize tool for sound design, and previously impossible effects for fully transformed sounds - never imagined.
PreSonus
The Basics
This Master Class is ideal for new users and people checking out Studio One to see what it can do and how it works. You will learn about: Instrument tracks and Audio tracks and their differences; Audio Tracks Channel Mode; Panning basics ; Insert Effects and FX Channels and Mixing 101.
Bitwig Bitwig Studio
Bitwig Studio is a brand new, fully-loaded music creation DAW that is quickly being used by some of the elite produces and DJs on the charts. During this Master Class you will see what Bitwig can do, how it is different from all other DAWs and how to take full advantage of its powerful features.
PreSonus Advanced
This Class is geared for advanced Studio One users. In this Masterclass you will learn about: The Arranger Track; Using Audio Bend; Using the Scratch Pad 4; Working with loops and VST Instruments; StudioLive DAW Mode and Studio One Integration.
Native Instruments
Overview of TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 and S4 MK3
In this workshop, discover the next generation of TRAKTOR controllers with the TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 MK3 and TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 MK3. Get a complete overview of the hardware and software, experience Haptic Drive™ Jog Wheels, and expand your creative possibilities.
Steinberg
Attracting and Maintaining Paying Clients: The Secret
Having the technical chops to write/produce music is one thing, but only a select few have the knowledge of how to grow and sustain their own music business. Attend to learn how to build your career so you're booked solid!
Native Instruments Overview of KOMPLETE 12, MASCHINE MIKRO MK3, KOMPLETE KONTROL A-SERIES
In this workshop, get a complete overview of the new MASCHINE MIKRO MK3, KOMPLETE KONTROL A-SERIES and KOMPLETE 12. Learn about the new hardware and how to integrate it into your workflow.
Casey Stevens & John DiNicola - Focusrite Novation
Casey Stevens is a touring DJ/Producer with over 20 years experience in the industry, Electronic Music Record Label Owner and Operator, and Focusrite Novation Product Specialist Manager. John DiNicola is an Audio Engineer, Guitar Playing Musician, and Focusrite Novation Product Specialist with 10 years experience in the industry
Ahmed Mahmoud - Sonarworks
Ahmed Mahmoud has been in the industry for close to twenty years. He was briefly signed to Epic Records with his band Bamboo Shoots. Ahmed is currently working as a freelance engineer, composer, and producer. He is graduating SAE on October 12th this year!!
Mark Roos - Steinberg
Mark Roos is an Emmy Award winning composer based in New York for film, television and advertising and successfully connects people in a powerful way through his compositions. He has composed for Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, The Kardashians, Murder One, Microsoft and Pixar. Mark will share his knowledge and insights insights on delivering content to clients to make a career as a composer. Mark Roos also serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Composers and Lyricists.
Wilkis Figuereo - Sonible
Wilkis Figuereo is a CEO, Entrepreneur, Producer, Engineer and an Avid Certified Instructor. He is the owner of Itec Audio Studios in New Jersey, one of the premier Avid training centers in the North East United States.
Collin Bevan - Eventide
Collin Bevan: A mix engineer and producer, Collin Bevan works as a product specialist for Eventide's pro audio division attending tradeshows and workshops throughout America. A Music Industry major at the College of Saint Rose, Collin helped provide live sound services for acts such as B. B. King, Tim Reynolds, Mary Lambert, Chick Corea, and Stewart Copeland. He combines is engineering know-how, music knowledge, and salesmanship to introduce other musicians to the world of Eventide's legendary effects.
Vinnie Pagano - KV331 Audio
As a Producer, Audio Engineer, and DJ, Vinnie Pagano has gained experience and knowledge from every corner of the audio world. Currently he works as a freelance Engineer in the New York area, regularly handling major label clients.
Luis Tineo - Relab
Luis Tineo also known as Sabor (pronounced/ Saab-or) is an american music producer, music & film mix engineer & DJ. Studied in NYC at Center for the Media Arts and best known for his extensive work catalog as a sound engineer at some of the top recording studios in the NY area like the legendary hip-hop studio D&D & Chung King with credits that are considered to be iconic projects in the Hip-Hop and Dance music genres.
Oniell Champagnie - FL Studio
Oniell Champagnie is a professional IT consultant in New York and an FL Studio expert. He has been producing music on computers and with FL Studio since his teenage years and is a leading expert of computers for music production.
Tai McPhee - Blue Cat Audio
Tai McPhee is a freelance audio engineer who is a veteran music technology product specialist at IMSTA FESTA NY, Miami and AES New York. Tai studied at City University of New York with Ernie Jackson. Tai is also a FabFilter Product specialist.
Shaheed Shabaaz - Nugen Audio
Shaheed Shabaaz is a music technology expert who was an anchor in the technology department at Guitar Center NY for 10 years. A serious guitar player, producer and blogger, Shaheed holds a degree in Business Management and now operates his own music school in Manhattan with his wife.
Professor Ernie Jackson - Wave Arts
Professor Ernie Jackson teaches music at City University of New York and is a world-class guitar player who studied music at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. An early adopter of all things music and technology Ernie has mentored hundreds of students who continue to excel in the audio industry.
Robert Miller - AVID
Robert has been with Avid as a Senior Solutions Specialist for 23 years working in New York City. He has been instrumental in transitioning Film and Television Post and Broadcast customers to digital file-based workflows. As of late he has been focusing on Avid’s Venue S6L unified mixing platform. Prior to his time at Avid he was a keyboard player and chief engineer at Water Music Recorders in Hoboken NJ where he recorded and produced many records during the 80’s and early 90’s. He keeps his ProTools chops up by mixing projects for friends in his home studio.
Julio Herrera - Acon Digital
Julio is a Harlem-born musician, composer and leader of the R&R Soul Orchestra. A Virtuoso keyboardist, Julio operates a studio and is an expert in Pro Tools and Logic Pro. Julio’s latest album “Live from a basement in Queens” is available on Itunes.
Abe Duque - Bitwig
Abe Duque is a veteran artist and producer with a career spanning more than two decades. He has been teaching music production since 2011 and was the first teacher to become Bitwig certified.
In this masterclass, Abe Duque will show you how to build a track from scratch with Bitwig Studio and shape your own sound with the various modulation devices and the newly updated sampler in Bitwig Studio 2.4. It's ideal for anyone interested in learning about Bitwig Studio's unique feature set.
Rajiv Bethune - FabFilter
Rajiv Bethune is an electronic music producer, product specialist and a IADT Recording Arts graduate. He became a Product Specialist for Music Marketing, a North American music software distribution company in 2014 and since then has been demonstrating music software products, educating musicians and audio enthusiasts at various North American trade shows and conventions.
Eric Klein - Rob Papen
Eric founded Soul Tech Marketing in 2001 as a rep firm dedicated to selling audio and music technology products and he has the distinction of being the World's first plug-in rep selling Waves plug-ins in 1996. As a composer he has had chamber, electroacoustic, and orchestral works performed in the USA and Europe. In addition to scoring for feature film, Parma Records recently released an album of his chamber works, The Myth of Tomorrow, performed by the New York contemporary music ensemble, Contemporaneous. Eric has been sales manager for Rob Papen software products since 2009.
OP! - Serato
OP! is the Artist Relations Manager (East Coast) for Serato. As a long time DJ, producer, and educator, OP! works with artists daily demonstrating how they can use Serato software products (including Serato Sample) to make and play music.
Derrick Floyd - IK Multimedia
Artist, Musician, Songwriter, Life Coach, Motivational Speaker, are just a few of the words that describe Derrick Floyd. By day, he is the National Sales and Product Specialist Manager for the ground breaking music technology company, IK Multimedia who is one of the leaders in making professional software tools for musicians, producers and engineers all over the world. Also being the pioneers of mobile recording revolution with the invention of the iRig family of portable recording products has given Derrick a front roll seat at the helm of the constant evolving world of creative music technology products.
Brian Gallway - Arturia
An avid synthesist, Brian has crossed the whole spectrum from DIY instrument creation to modular live improv and beyond. Brian travels the northeastern US teaching the magic of circuitry-based musical instruments by day, and racing American muscle cars by night. Catch him showing off all the explosive new offerings at the Arturia booth, in a rare appearance outside of his Eurorack rabbit hole.
Bill Collins - Magix
Bill Collins is a Chicago-based music producer, educator and product specialist for MAGIX Software who has been actively performing and producing music for over 20 years. His music can be heard on several major television networks and is published by Sony/ATV and Universal Music Publishing Group. Bill is also the Editor for The Pro Audio Files, and served as Course Director for the Los Angeles Film School from 2010-2017.
Matt Ramos - Accusonus
From Queens, NY, Matt is a jack of all trades, master of none when it comes to music and audio. Earning his Bachelor's in Music from Hunter College, before graduating from SAE NYC in 2017, he is a freelance A2 for Fox News and guitarist. He practices his mixing in his spare time, and enjoys making beats on Auxy or Ableton. Matt just finished mixing the official radio stream for the US Open in Flushing Meadows Park. He's demonstrated for IMSTA in 2017 and continues again for this year.
Carlo Libertini - Celemony
Audio Production Engineer and Music Marketing Software Specialist. Carlo has developed a name for himself as an audio engineer and products specialist by providing production services, demonstrations, and trainings across the country for all levels of industry and academic environments. In between production responsibilities he conducts on-line training seminars, collaborative production meetings, software demonstrations, and video training tutorials.
Brian Kullas - Native Instruments
Brian Kullas is a classically trained musician who started playing piano at the age of 6. Born and educated in Connecticut, Brian studied at Dickinson College to pursue a traditional music degree in performance and composition. He soon discovered that his real passion was electronic music production and DJing. Brian attended Dubspot Electronic Music Production and DJ School, where he was able to hone his DJ and music production skills. Brian is now the Lead US Product Specialist for Native Instruments and has been with Native Instruments for the past 6 years. Brian has focused his electronic music style on house, techno, Trap & Hiphop using MASCHINE, KOMPLETE, and TRAKTOR.
JOHNNY GEIB - PRESONUS
Johnny Geib is a music producer in the Chicago area. He's also the owner of Home Studio Trainer, an online blog and training website for recording musicians. He has produced hundreds of videos on StudioOne and uses PreSonus products in his Chicago recording studio.
GIL GOWING - MCDSP
Gil Gowing is a veteran in the pro audio industry with over 30 years of experience with recording, digital audio, and production. He is a product specialist with McDSP as well as the owner and principal consultant of Digimidi Technical Services, specializing in audio and software training, manufacturer consultant and demo artist, training media creation, and music production and multi-channel mixing.
NEW YORK 2018 PANEL SERIES
IMSTA is proud to host another exciting panel series during IMSTA FESTA NY 2018 featuring industry leaders and their fresh perspectives on music production.
We are bringing together the best minds, innovators and companies in the business of music and audio for this 1-day networking event.
Overview: Since 1998 Ariel Borujow has pretty much been sitting behind an audio console. The passion he had for sound the day he walked into his first session has grown naturally throughout his career. He credits his early studio experiences with many lessons. Creating the right dynamic between the engineer and the client along with their art is something he understood very early on in his career.
Luckily for him his early days allowed him to work on some of the best music of its time. The passage from assisting to recording and then mixing was next, and it was innate.
His career has led him down many different paths. He has both won and been nominated for Grammy Awards, as well as worked with some of the best musicians, artists and music producers on the planet. His involvement with the audio extends well beyond the studio. Currently he is a member of the committee for the Producers and Engineer wing at The Recording Academy.
If he is not behind a console mixing he enjoys discussing his work at speaking engagements around the world. He has spoken on panels at SXSW, offered master classes throughout 5 cities in France and works with upcoming producers and engineers offering private lessons.
Outside of the recording studio he also mixes live music for national live television broadcasting. Working closely with clients to achieve the balance they are looking for on their music is his art. He understands the delicate relationship between production and mixing and always focuses on bringing out the most complementary dynamic.
Select credits include: T.I., Imagine Dragons, Justin Martin, Puffy Just Blaze, Lucius, Chromeo. The Chainsmokers, Bebe Rexha, Chiddy Bang, CID, Madonna, Mac Miller & Andrea Bocelli.
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Overview: AES features Emerging Careers in Audio - an overview of emerging career opportunities currently available in the audio industry. Attend a panel with industry experts speaking on the more popular jobs available today in the audio industry.
Overview:Serge Tsai is a Grammy nominated, Multi-Platinum and Gold certified Mixing and Recording engineer, whose credits include the top artists from around the world. He worked with artists such as Akon, Shakira, Bono, Santana, Wyclef, Mary J Blige, and many more. Serge will explain his workflow, methods and tools used to create chart-toppers like “Hips Don’t Lie”, “American Boy” and countless more.
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IMSTA FESTA SONG REVIEWS | SAE BREAKFAST CAFE | 2PM
IMSTA announces Song Reviews beginning at 2pm. Bring your original song in on a headphone-compatible device and receive a one-on-one listening session with an industry expert who will give you a critique on your masterpiece. From the Song Reviews, the judges nominate 'Wild Cards' who are then spontaneously added to the finalists' pool who place 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the 2017 IMSTA Songwriting Competition. (Wild Cards must be present for judging at 5pm)
At the end of 2018, the 1st place finalists of each region are re-entered into a draw for the Grand Prize. The winner goes to Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece! Don't miss the opportunity to possibly go to Greece!
