Cutting-edge technology for music creation

There are two main stations within the laboratory that feature a professional monitor system, eight-channel sound cards, software for composing, mixing and editing, as well as iMac computers and studio headphones, among other things.

“There are four Yamaha studio monitors, two subwoofers, eleven headphones and MIDI keyboards, four condenser microphones, two sound cards, ten 27-inch iMacs, and a Mackbook Pro that we use to record live concerts of the university ensembles as part of the digital laboratory,” said the Music Technology teacher, Diego Herrera.

The laboratory is used for recording, mixing, composing, audio and video editing, transcribing scores, and developing musical products with excellent technological resources that provide good quality. "It is a space for students to have these musical skills applied to technologies, achieving high-level post-production work on artistic works," said Herrera.

The idea, then, is to have a digital creative development in the students of the Music program, which is taught at the Zipaquirá extension, with this laboratory that will also be directed by highly qualified teachers.

There are four teachers who will be in charge of the laboratory, including teacher Diego Herrera, who is a graduate of UDEC as a Music Teacher and studied Music Production at Berklee College of Music in the United States.

It is worth mentioning that students who will have access to the laboratory will do so from the eighth, ninth and tenth semesters, who will see, in that same order, the Musical Technology classes with: Physiology of Sound, MIDI Technologies and Audio Theory.

Furthermore, the classes are personalized since there will be, on average, 12 students per class, which translates to just over 70 students per semester who will use the laboratory.

“With the quality of our laboratory, our contribution to student preparation is no longer limited to, for example, the theoretical and practical aspects of a single instrument. We can now combine all of that work with technology, allowing them to gain greater knowledge when they enter the workforce. Finally, we hope that next year, with the completion of our new building, we will become the only public university in the country to have a recording studio,” Herrera concluded.

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