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What music production courses actually cost, from £13 to £9,790
UK music production courses are priced in four different ways. Here's what a real month or year actually costs on each platform we've checked.
Ask what a music production course costs and you'll get answers that don't sit on the same scale. £12.99 for a course. £49 a month for a subscription. £9,790 a year for a degree. They're not competing products, but the sites rarely say that plainly, so it's easy to compare a one-off course price against a subscription and conclude one platform is ten times more expensive when it isn't measuring the same thing.
We checked pricing on six platforms across their published pages (see sources below) and sorted them by how they actually charge: per course, by subscription, or by year on a full course. Every figure below is what the platform states on its own site, not a quote or an estimate.
Quick verdict
If you just want to learn one specific technique, a single per-course platform like Producertech is the cheapest way in. If you want ongoing feedback on your own tracks, a monthly subscription like Constant Studio or Syntho costs more over a year but includes that feedback loop. A degree is a different purchase entirely, buying accreditation and industry contacts alongside the teaching.
Pay once: per-course platforms
Producertech sells individual courses rather than a subscription. Prices on its homepage currently range from £12.99 to £39.95 per course, so the total cost depends entirely on how many courses you buy, and you keep access once you've paid.
Pay monthly: subscription platforms
Four platforms we checked sell ongoing subscriptions rather than individual courses. The headline monthly price is rarely the cheapest way to pay: Syntho, Constant Studio and Studio Orbit all drop the effective rate if you commit to a longer billing period or a higher tier.
| Platform | Monthly | Cheaper option |
|---|---|---|
| Syntho | £69.99/mo | £33.33/mo billed annually (£399.99), or £43/mo billed quarterly (£129.99) |
| Constant Studio | £49/mo | £19/mo equivalent billed annually (£229/yr) |
| Studio Orbit | £45/mo standard | 6 and 12-month plans available at a discount; exact rate not published |
| Puremix | $19.99/mo | Not published beyond the monthly rate |
Constant Studio also sells a Get Signed Mentorship tier with 1-to-1 sessions at £549, separate from the standard membership. Studio Orbit's £55/mo VIP tier adds two track feedback sessions a month and its Introduction To Making Music course, which otherwise costs £150 as a standalone one-off. Syntho offers a 7-day trial for £9.99 before the subscription rate applies.
Not every platform publishes a price
FaderPro has moved to per-course pricing on individual course pages rather than a single list. Sonic Academy's pricing sits behind Cloudflare protection. Point Blank Online quotes course-by-course rather than publishing a rate. We haven't guessed at figures for any of these; check the platform directly if you're weighing one up.
The residential exception
Mix With The Masters runs a video-lesson subscription alongside week-long residential seminars at Studios La Fabrique in France, where in-person seminar pricing starts from €4,000. That's a different kind of purchase again: a week on-site with a named mixing engineer, not a monthly video library.
Pay by the year: degree-level courses
Point Blank Music School's London campus prices its main programme from £9,790 a year, a figure that sits in a different category to everything above. It buys a validated degree (Middlesex University validates Point Blank's degrees), a physical campus, and TEF Gold status from the Office for Students, none of which a video-lesson subscription includes.
What actually decides the real cost
- The headline monthly price is usually the most expensive way to pay. Check whether an annual or quarterly rate is offered before comparing platforms on their homepage figure.
- A per-course platform can end up costing more than a subscription if you buy several courses a year. Work out roughly how many courses you'd actually want before assuming per-course is cheaper.
- Trial periods matter more than they look. Syntho's £9.99 week is a cheap way to check the teaching style fits before committing to the full monthly rate.
- If a site doesn't publish a price at all, that's a data point too. It usually means custom quotes, which are worth getting from more than one platform before deciding.
What's the cheapest way to start learning music production?
Producertech's individual courses start from £12.99, the lowest published entry price we found. A single course is a lower commitment than any subscription if you only want to learn one specific technique.
Is a monthly subscription cheaper than buying individual courses?
It depends on how many courses you'd buy. Constant Studio's annual rate works out to £19/mo, cheaper than most single Producertech courses if you'd otherwise buy more than one course a year.
Why do some platforms not show a price?
FaderPro, Sonic Academy and Point Blank Online all withhold a single published price, either behind per-course catalogue pages, Cloudflare protection, or a quote-only enquiry system.
How much does a music production degree cost in the UK?
Point Blank Music School's London programme starts from £9,790 a year, a different category of purchase to online subscriptions since it includes a validated degree and physical campus.
Do any of these platforms offer a trial?
Syntho offers a 7-day trial for £9.99 before its standard subscription rate applies. We didn't find a published trial offer on the other platforms checked.
What does Mix With The Masters' in-person seminar cost?
Its residential seminars at Studios La Fabrique in France start from €4,000 for a week on-site with a named mixing engineer, separate from its video-lesson subscription.
Sources
Every price and fact above traces to a school or platform's own site, dated on its own listing page. See the methodology for how that works.