Online music production courses
26 schools teach production, DJing or sound engineering online, from platforms built for it to campus schools that also sell a remote route. This page is secondary to the city directory on purpose: the head terms here are the ones AI Overviews and listicles already answer well. The city pages are where this site is genuinely useful.
Online-only platforms (11)
Academy of Music & Sound
online platformRan a network of 7 UK campuses from 2004 (Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Swindon, Gateshead); Companies House confirms the regional campus companies were dissolved between 2017 and 2025, and AMS's own site states it has operated online-only since 2023, though one Gateshead-registered entity still appears active on Companies House, a discrepancy worth noting rather than resolving by guessing. In September 2022, founder Kevin Harding sold his shares to staff, converting AMS into what it describes as the UK's first Employee Ownership Trust in music/education. Its DipHE/BA(Hons)/MMus/PhD in Music & Sound is validated by the University of West London rather than AMS holding its own degree-awarding powers or OfS-issued TEF rating, a different setup to rivals like Point Blank or ICMP. The cheapest entry point is a £280 Access to HE course (six 1:1 mentor sessions over 6 weeks); the main degree ladder is DipHE at £8,495/yr (2 years), BA (Hons) Top-Up at £8,495 total (1 year), MMus at £8,995/yr (1 year), and a new PhD (first cohort November 2025) at £9,995/yr. Alumnus Lewis Capaldi studied an HND at the Edinburgh campus before it closed, from the pre-online-only era, so not evidence of what current online delivery is like.
Syntho
online platformOnline electronic-music production platform with structured Ableton learning paths and personal feedback, sold as a subscription, with 600+ courses taught by 30+ named artist-instructors. Cheapest is £33.33/mo billed annually (£399.99); £43/mo billed quarterly (£129.99), or £69.99/mo billed monthly if you want no lock-in. A 7-day trial is £9.99. Founded 2020 by UK DJ/producer Josh Baker (Manchester DJ/producer who founded You&Me Records and co-founded Hide&Seek Festival, and has played Warehouse Project, DC10, Fabric and Parklife); Hazel Savage (former Musiio co-founder, later sold to SoundCloud) joined as CEO in February 2025. A curated selection of Syntho courses launched on Spotify's Courses hub for UK Premium subscribers in mid-2025. In-person 'live events' are included only on the annual membership tier, not monthly or quarterly.
Studio Orbit
online platformOnline school for underground electronic music production and DJing, run by Kepler. Companies House confirms the real name behind the alias is Matthew Rodney Farrow. Standard membership (video library, Discord community) is cheapest paid annually at £32/mo, £38/mo paid every 6 months, or £45/mo paid monthly; VIP adds two track feedback sessions a month plus the Introduction To Making Music course at £39/mo annually, £47/mo every 6 months, or £55/mo monthly. The Introduction To Making Music course is also sold standalone: £150 one-off for lifetime access, or included free on VIP. Refunds are entirely at Studio Orbit's discretion and explicitly not given if a member forgets to cancel a rolling subscription, per its own terms, and the VIP annual tier is permanently badged 'BLACK FRIDAY DEAL!' regardless of season, worth flagging as a manufactured-urgency pattern. Its Trustpilot rating (4.3/5, 9 reviews) is built entirely from reviews posted within a few days of each other in February 2024, with none in the 12 months to August 2026, a thin, dated sample. Guest roster includes Lauren Lo Sung, Gaskin, Azaad and Subb-An, with lead instructor Kepler (BA Hons Music Production, 8+ years teaching, releases on FUSE and Instinct).
FaderPro
online platformPer-course tutorials built around full studio sessions with named artists, plus label-branded academies including Toolroom Academy, Armada University and Monstercat. Operates under TrueFire Studios (also behind the guitar-lesson platform TrueFire), not as a fully independent company. Individual courses start at $9.99 and run up to around $69.99, with bundle discounts, genuinely cheaper per-item than the subscription. The Producers Club subscription (220+ standard courses, excludes the separate Platinum tier) is cheapest billed annually at $99/yr (about $8.25/mo, a promotional 50% off the $199.99/yr standard rate), or $11.99/mo billed monthly (also promotional, 40% off $19.99/mo standard). Platinum courses (Nicky Romero, Roger Sanchez, Ferry Corsten) are sold separately and only discounted, not included, for subscribers. Co-founded by Steven Lee and Vincent di Pasquale; a newer 'Mentor My Career' 1-to-1 coaching add-on is fronted by 'Lee Cabrera', an artist alias of co-founder Steven Lee himself, worth knowing since it's not an independent outside hire.
Constant Studio
online platformOnline academy run by house producer Burnski (James Burnham, confirmed via Companies House), with 500+ tutorials (new ones added weekly) and A&R-style track feedback from 15 partner labels. Cheapest is £229 a year (£19/mo equivalent); billed monthly it's £49. A 'Get Signed Mentorship' tier (4 personal 1-to-1 sessions with Burnski) is listed on the site as a '£599 Charge', but the same pricing card also displays a separate '£49 Monthly' widget with no clear explanation of how the two relate, which looks more like a template artifact than a genuine second payment option, so treat the £599 one-off figure as the more reliable of the two. Constant Studio Ltd was only incorporated in August 2025, so the legal entity is very new even though Burnski's tutoring/label activity predates it. Instructor roster beyond Burnski includes Robin Graham and Oldboy, though neither has independently verifiable outside production credits.
Point Blank Online
online platformPoint Blank's online arm, running the same diploma and degree pathways remotely as the Hoxton campus. The genuine cheapest paid course is £775 for a 3-month Short course (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, DJ Skills, Art of Mixing, Audio Mastering, Composing for Media, or Music Business, one class/week), not the £2,245 Specialist Certificate previously used as the floor. Free self-paced intro guides also exist (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Music Business, ~30 videos each), but these aren't live-taught or accredited (a taster, not a course). The full ladder runs Short (£775, 3 months) → In Depth (£1,295, 6 months) → Specialist Certificate (£2,245, 6 months) → Diploma (£3,495, 1 year) → Complete Diploma (£4,995, 18 months); the online CertHE and BA (Hons) degree routes are both £6,500/yr for UK students in 2026/27. Worth flagging: the online BA (Hons) fees page states Point Blank holds Full Degree Awarding Powers from the OfS and awards its own qualifications, while the main London campus listing cites Middlesex University validation; the two pages describe the awarding route differently, an unresolved discrepancy rather than a picked answer. A separately priced 'Online US' catalogue, including a Bachelor of Music degree, runs under similarly named courses for US-resident students, easy to conflate with the UK online offering. Independent reviews (an Ableton Forum thread, EDUopinions) are broadly positive on tutor quality, though one detailed review flagged short 2–4 minute videos and cluttered course notes.
Sonic Academy
online platformSubscription-based production tutorials with monthly and committed plans; 949 courses, project files and samples included. Cheapest is the annual plan at £79.99/yr (around £6.67/mo), which also includes two subscription plugins (SA76, JU-60) for the membership's duration; no-commitment monthly access is currently a discounted £9.99/mo (was £13.99, an active promo rather than a stable list price). Individual course downloads (kept forever, not subscription-gated) run £11.96 to £27.96+ per course, a real premium over subscribing. Founded 2003/04 in Belfast by Kevin Traynor, a founding member/drummer of Irish band The Divine Comedy; went online as SonicAcademy.com in April 2008. The trading entity, a Northern Ireland company, was incorporated in 2010, around when Traynor's own tenure there appears to end per public work-history listings — current ownership/leadership isn't stated on the site. Forum feedback (KVR Audio) says the catalogue skews beginner and gets repetitive once fundamentals are learned; one thread flagged a period with browser-only streaming and no downloads, later reinstated after complaints. Listed as an Ableton Certified Training Center.
Producertech
online platformPer-course tutorials with streamed lessons and downloadable project files. Individual courses range from £9.95 (Groove Fundamentals) to £99.95 (Beginner's Guide to Music Production in Ableton Live); course bundles run up to £199.95. An All-Access Membership subscription is also sold: 2/3-month terms at £24.95, 6-month at £49.96, 12-month at £99.95 (around £8.33/mo, the cheapest effective rate), covering 500+ hours of tutorials plus a private community and live streams. The site runs frequent, fairly aggressive promo pricing on top of list price (a Black Friday code once cut it to £1/mo for 3 months), so treat any single 'from' price as a snapshot rather than a stable floor. 344 Trustpilot reviews are largely positive on value/content, but with a recurring cluster of complaints about a broken signup/login flow, including at least one report of being double-charged while starting a free trial. Founded 2009 by Rob Jones, an Ableton Certified Trainer; catalogue spans 400+ hours across Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase and Maschine, with tutors including Reso, John Tejada, Paul Maddox (Spektre) and Martin Eyerer.
Mix With The Masters
online platformVideo-lesson subscription platform teaching mixing and production from name engineers, published by MAVEN, a Paris company registered as a training organisation with French authority DREETS. MAVEN's own legal page states this registration 'does not constitute state accreditation.' The entry Access tier (4 video series a year, one per quarter) is £89/yr; Pro (full 200+ series catalogue) is £27.90/mo; Expert adds a plugin outlet and a free consulting session at £569/yr. Also runs flagship week-long residential seminars at Studios La Fabrique in France, published from €4,000 all-inclusive, though none were open for booking as of August 2026; over 120 have been hosted since 2010, the last in September 2025. The 'Masters' roster is exceptionally deep and independently verifiable, including the late Steve Albini (d. 2024), so some content is now archival. Gearspace forum threads describe it as mixing-focused, with some subscribers saying a year's access felt worth it almost immediately despite a catalogue that looks small on paper.
Puremix
online platformSubscription video platform with 900+ mixing and production lessons, co-founded by Fab Dupont, training engineers since 2010 with 280,000+ engineers/producers in its community. Operates independently; claims elsewhere that it was acquired did not check out against any source. Cheapest is $199.99/yr (about $16.67/mo, roughly 2 months free); billed monthly it's $19.99/mo, with a 14-day refund window. A separate 'Campus @ Puremix' track offers structured/certification courses (e.g. a 10-hour 'Foundations of Compression', a 26-hour 'Brauerize', and a 'Core Audio Program' certification) whose prices aren't shown until checkout; a related, shorter 2-hour Brauerize tutorial sells standalone on the main streaming site for $99, for reference. Fab Dupont is described elsewhere as '6-time Grammy-nominated,' but Puremix's own mentor bio for him credits Latin Grammy nominations personally and otherwise says he's 'worked on' Grammy-nominated albums by others, a materially weaker claim, and third-party bios disagree with each other too, so that specific number should be treated with caution. Other mentors include Andrew Scheps, Michael Brauer, Chris Lord-Alge and Mick Guzauski (Daft Punk, Prince, Michael Jackson), plus dozens more.
Production Music Live
online platformOnline academy and sample-pack label focused on melodic techno, melodic house, Afro house and indie dance, run by a small team (Francois, Tom, Alex and Max are the names that appear on the site) rather than a large faculty. Every individual 'Start to Finish' course and masterclass is priced the same way: €39.90 on a permanent-looking 30% 'sale' against a €57 list price, so treat that discount as the real price rather than a limited-time offer. The 'Everything Bundle: Year Edition 2026' (every pack and course released in the year) is €297, discounted from €594. All prices are in euros only, with no separate GBP listing found. A third-party review site's claims of a 4.9/5 Trustpilot rating and the company 'operating since 2006' don't hold up under a direct check: PML's actual Trustpilot page is unclaimed with zero reviews, and no founding date is published on PML's own site, so both figures should be treated as unverified rather than repeated as fact. Named artist collaborators shown on PML's own site (Ben Böhmer, Monolink, Jimi Jules, Nils Hoffmann) are real, established acts on labels like Anjunadeep and Innervisions, genuinely lending the platform credibility even where other claims don't check out.
Campuses teaching online too (15)
School of Electronic Music
private schoolRunning since 1996 as Manchester MIDI School, rebranding in 2017 and switching its primary DAW from Logic to Ableton Live, when it also added a 20-iMac production lab and a 7-setup DJ lab. Music production, a complete DJ course, composition, artist development and 1-to-1 tuition at 220 Chapel Street, with in-person, online and weekend taster formats. A free intro taster course requires only a £59 fully-refundable deposit; the Complete DJ Course (12 weeks) is £1,095 paid upfront; Introduction to Music Production runs up to roughly £1,795 on a 12-week fast-track instalment plan. Companies House shows no currently active limited company clearly trading under this name at the listed address despite live 2026 course dates on the site: worth confirming directly before enrolling.
Make Me A DJ
private schoolHas run 1-to-1 DJ and music production tuition from Ancoats, Manchester since 2008, having started life above the city's former Sankeys nightclub. It's essentially a one-person teaching operation built around founder Mark Bradbury (aka techno producer Rudosa); he is the only named, credited tutor on the site, despite marketing copy referencing a wider 'team.' Alongside courses, the school runs Jersey Street Studios, an in-house mixdown/engineering and studio-hire service under the same roof and director. Online prices are considerably cheaper than in-person tuition (a Rekordbox software walkthrough is £25, online Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced DJ courses £40 each) versus £420 for 6 hours or £1,440 for a 3-day in-person crash course.
Point Blank Music School
private schoolFounded in 1994, with a 30,000 square foot campus in Shoreditch, London, which the school describes on its own site as brand new. The Office for Students granted pointblank full Degree Awarding Powers with effect from 1 April 2026, so it now awards its own undergraduate degrees and can validate programmes for other institutions. Degrees before that point were validated through Middlesex University, so anyone already partway through a course should confirm which route their own award sits on. Holds TEF Gold from the Office for Students, awarded 2023 (the only specialist music production institute in the UK to do so). Its cheapest standalone course is Piano Keyboard Skills (3 months, £695); most other Short courses (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Sound Engineering, DJing, Music Business) run £935 to £1,995 for 3 months, Specialist certificates (6 to 9 months) from £4,990, and the BA (Hons) degree route is £9,790/yr for UK students in the 2026/27 academic year.
Garnish Music Production School
private schoolTeaching since 2009, now from a small studio at 1 Emma Street near London Fields, though Ableton's own directory and several UK business listings still place it at a previous building on Richmond Road, so treat the exact address as in flux. Class sizes are capped at six, with 24-hour student studio access. The flagship Ableton Producer Program runs 120 hours for £3,499; the longer Electronic Music Production Diploma runs 360 hours for £7,499, including two days at Goldsmith Music Studios with professional engineers. Several previously separate short courses (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Mixing & Mastering, Composition, Vocal Production) no longer carry standalone prices and now route through private 1-2-1 tuition from £1,300 for 24 hours; the cheapest listed product on the whole site is an £899 online songwriting package. London director Aamir Yaqub is billed as a 'Grammy-winning' tutor, though no specific credit is published to back that up.
London Sound Academy
private schoolOne-to-one DJ and production tuition in a Camden studio, trading since 2008/09 (originally as 808 DJ Academy, rebranded 2015). Standard DJ and Music Production courses (4 lessons of 2 hours) run £369 each; Elite DJ, Vinyl DJ and Mixing & Mastering courses are £649; a cheaper £100 two-hour taster session is also bookable. LSA is genuinely listed as a DJ school partner on Pioneer DJ's own website, though its claim to be 'one of the few Pioneer authorised educators in the world' looks overstated; Pioneer's own partner page names several other UK schools alongside it. Named tutors publish real, checkable industry credits, including a 15-year Fabric resident DJ and a producer with releases on Sony RCA and Toolroom.
Tileyard Education
private schoolEight-week evening short courses run inside the Tileyard complex at King's Cross, in person or online: the online Music Production for Beginners course is £350, the in-person version and the separate Vocal Production course are both £499, all with 12-month interest-free instalment options. Tileyard Education's marketing leans on the wider Tileyard complex's scale ('200+ music businesses' including Apple Music 1, Ableton and Focusrite, and 160 private studios used by artists like The Prodigy and Noel Gallagher), but that description covers the surrounding commercial campus, not Tileyard Education's own course delivery specifically. Its MA programmes (Commercial Songwriting and Production, Music Production) are validated and awarded by Nottingham Trent University via a partnership independently confirmed on NTU's own site, following a 2024 tie-up bringing a 35,000 sq ft NTU campus onto the Tileyard site.
BIMM London
private schoolBIMM London occupies a five-storey, roughly 19,000 sq ft building on Effie Road in Fulham, a short walk from Fulham Broadway tube. It began life in 1983 as Drumtech, founded by Francis Seriau, became Tech Music School, and was rebranded BIMM London after BIMM's 2010 acquisition and 2014 name change. Alongside Manchester, it is one of only two UK BIMM campuses that has run short courses, as 3-day intensives or 6-week part-time evening courses from £299. That programme is paused: checked 28 August 2026, BIMM's short course page states the 2026 courses have finished and the next programme is still being developed, with no dates or prices published, so treat £299 as a historical figure rather than a bookable one. Degrees run £9,790/yr, the same fee BIMM charges UK students at every campus, and are currently the only priced route in. BIMM University overall holds a TEF 2023 Bronze rating and Privy Council degree-awarding powers; Ableton lists the campus as a Certified Training Centre.
SAE Institute London
private schoolSAE's East London campus (SAE House on Kingsland Road, plus a separately-run recording facility, Bankstock Studios, a canal walk away) has operated since 1985 and now offers audio production degrees validated by the University of Hertfordshire, at £9,790 a year over three years or £11,750 a year accelerated over two. The provider (SAE Education Limited, covering all SAE UK campuses, not London alone) holds a TEF 2023 Silver rating. A Mastering Summer School is listed as running at the London site specifically, but still has no published price or scheduled dates, so the degree remains the only currently-priced entry point.
London School of Electronic Music
private schoolSmall-group DJ and production courses (mostly 3 months, from £295/month) plus 1-to-1 coaching from £50/hour, with a free trial webcam hour on offer. Classes run at rented third-party studios (Qube Elephant & Castle, Qube Hackney Wick and Pirate Studios Dalston) rather than a dedicated LSEM venue, so treat any single fixed address as provisional. Tutors carry genuinely checkable industry credits: releases on labels including Klockworks, Soma Records and Sony RCA. Its student label, Fresh Beats Records, has at least one verifiable released EP by an alumnus, plus a Netil Radio show and Bloop London livestream slots. Despite teaching Ableton, LSEM is not listed as an Ableton Certified Training Center, unlike several London competitors. No phone number is published.
WaterBear College of Music
private schoolFounded in 2018 by Bruce John Dickinson (Little Angels, and an early co-founder of the BIMM group) and former college principal Adam Bushell, WaterBear runs from Hanover House on Queens Road plus its own gig venues, WaterBear Venue and WaterBear MusicBar, used for both shows and short courses. Degrees were validated by the University of Chichester at launch, switching to Falmouth University in 2020, at £9,790/yr. WaterBear does not hold an Office for Students TEF rating, unlike Point Blank (Gold) or BIMM (Bronze). Also has a Sheffield campus, opened 2023 inside the former Gatecrasher nightclub building, sharing the same course catalogue. Its cheapest current option is a short, guest-led weekend camp (Prog Rock Camp with Marillion's Steve Rothery ran at £750 for four days in August 2026) rather than any structured beginner short course.
WaterBear College of Music, Sheffield
private schoolWaterBear's second campus, opened 2023 inside the former Gatecrasher nightclub on Eyre Lane. Courses are validated by Falmouth University, which took a board seat and became WaterBear's degree-awarding partner in 2020; students graduate with a Falmouth University degree or master's. Sheffield shares Brighton's course catalogue and the same £9,790/yr fee (2026/27) for the 3-year BA (Hons) Professional Music routes (Performance, Songwriting, Production, Electronic Music, Business) and the 1-year CertHE; a 4-year route adds an integrated foundation year. WaterBear also runs short artist-led camps (past tutors have included members of Squeeze, Marillion and The Darkness), but as of August 2026 these run at the Brighton site only, with no price published, so the genuine cheapest current commitment at Sheffield is the £9,790/yr degree fee, not a short course.
Harmony Music School
private schoolGeneral music school founded in 2005 by professional musicians Aubrey Robinson and Abby Abrames, now running from two Sheffield sites (Ecclesfield and Broomhill) with around 12 teachers and, per the school's own figures, over 5,000 students taught to date across studios, online, and in schools/classrooms. Teaches one-to-one Logic Pro production lessons online and in person, at £19.50 a lesson (30 minutes; £39 for an hour), by DBS-checked, professionally active teachers, from age 6 up. Curriculum covers recording, MIDI programming, mixing/EQ, plug-ins, vocal recording and soft synths. The school pivoted toward online delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic, backed by a Digital Innovation Grant to fund a booking system and upgraded AV equipment. No individual production tutor is named with independently checkable credits; staff are described only generically as 'professionally active.'
subSine | Academy of Electronic Music
private schoolFounded in 2010 by Simon Stokes, performing as Petrichor. Ableton's own directory names him Scotland's only Certified Trainer. Stokes signed to Glasgow techno institution Soma Records by 2013, and his studio collaborators include Slam (Soma), Domenic Capello (Sub Club), Jackmaster (Numbers) and Jasper James (XOYO), giving the school a genuine line into Glasgow's internationally known techno scene rather than just a marketing claim. Courses run from a £45 online Deepbass techno masterclass up through tiered online Ableton courses (£120-£340) to in-person studio tiers (Creator/Producer/Artist, £420-£480) and one-off Pro Sessions with guest producers. Graduates get a release route via the school's own Alumni Records Glasgow label. Also trades as Shoogle Studios and, for its Soma Records tie-up specifically, Soma Skool.
The Sound Lab
private schoolOne-to-one DJ and music production tuition on Pioneer CDJ-3000s and Ableton Live 12, in person in Lincoln or online. Prices are shared on a free introductory call rather than published; re-checked directly on both the DJ Lessons and Music Production Lessons pages and confirmed genuinely no rate card exists on the site. Founder and lead mentor Ben Elding has releases on the label SHÈN, independently confirmed via Beatport ('SHÈN: The Next Gen, Vol. 1'), and has shared line-ups with Sasha, John Digweed, Franky Wah, Maceo Plex, Cristoph, Nick Warren and Ivory, performing across the UK and Ibiza, with support from Sasha & John Digweed on Transitions Radio also independently corroborated. Studio hardware includes a Nord Lead A1, Korg Minilogue XD and Moog Minitaur. Also offers mixdown/mastering, artist-development coaching and multicam 4K session filming, and runs an active Discord community for students. The operating company behind the business couldn't be confidently identified on Companies House. Flag as unresolved rather than guessed.
Subwaves Music Studios
private schoolA small city-centre music tuition studio and recording space in Eldon Square, running singing, guitar and piano lessons alongside music production lessons, all taught in person at the studio, in students' homes, or online worldwide via Zoom, Skype or FaceTime. Music production is taught by founder Jamie Devine, who also teaches singing and guitar; no specific DAW (Ableton, Logic or otherwise) is named on the site, so it reads as a general production tuition offering rather than a software-specific course. The studio doubles as a recording facility running Pro Tools 12 with a range of industry-standard plugins and outboard gear, and separately sells mixing and mastering services. Guitar and piano lessons with other named tutors (Lara Norman, Liam Oliver, Mary McCrisken, Louis Allen, Ned Wheaton) start at £17.50 for a 30-minute session, though production-specific pricing isn't broken out separately on the site, so it's worth confirming directly before booking.
Subjects taught online: Music production, Ableton, DJ, Logic, Sound engineering. Know a platform we've missed? See our methodology for how listings get added.