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SOUNDTRAP
Online Music & Audio Recording Studio
What is Soundtrap?
It works on ANYTHING!

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The Workspace
STEP 1: Login
1. Go to www.soundtrap.com/edu

2. Click on “Log In”

3. Choose “Log in with email”

4. Make a new password!

Now let’s go!

STEP 2: The Studio
Click on
“Enter Studio”

Choose a BLANK
template.
STEP 3: Loops & Tracks
To add new LOOPS, choose either the square in the centre...

OR the LOOP icon...

The LOOPS Workspace

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STEP 3: Loops & Tracks cont’d
To add new TRACKS, choose either the square in the centre...

OR the TRACK legend from the side of the window...

The TRACKS Workspace

Try out
different
instruments,
or record your
own voice!

Play your
“instrument”
using your
computer
keyboard!
STEP 4: Editing a Track
Cut the ORIGINAL loop Repeat this section
length (“Loop the loop”)

Change
Volume, Stretch or compress
Pan, the loop
Sweep
ADDING COLLABORATORS
To work with a friend or collaborator...

... and invite them via email

or look them up in
Soundtrap
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
● In pairs or groups, invite each other to
COLLABORATE on one project
● Interview each other about an exciting
experience or favourite thing
● Add a few sound effects or music (a
“jingle”) to your interview!
● BE CREATIVE!!
PODCAST/STORY PROJECTS
● Choose a blank studio project (Enter
Studio)
● Choose “Add New Track”
○ Voice & Microphones
○ Click on Voice / Computer Mic
Enhancer

● Select your Microphone

“sound”
● Start Recording!
ADDITIONAL FUN
Try out the Patterns BeatMaker!

Don’t like the KEY of this song?

Just TRANSPOSE it!
ADDITIONAL FUN
When you’re done, you can SHARE it in all sorts of ways!

Download as
an mp3!

Export as
different file
types!
NEED MORE HELP?

Click on TUTORIALS
in the Studio

Click on
RESOURCES from
your Welcome
page, scroll down
to Administration,
Studio, etc.
NEED MORE HELP?

The EDU Blog includes a

fantastic bank of
ready-to-use Lesson Plans!

Create your own lesson

plan to use and / or to
share with others!
bit.ly/SoundtrapTemplate
NEED MORE HELP?

There are great

videos on YouTube!

Visit
bit.ly/teachersnaps
for ideas and
suggestions from
other teachers!
OTHER COOL STUFF TO TRY!
● Record a short poem or informational item (eg. podcast)
● Compose a jingle for a commercial
● Dictate instructions for how to play your favourite
game/make your favourite food
● Tell a short story and add a few sound effects
● “Play” the synthesizer to record a song
● Invite a friend and work on a song together!
● Interview someone and record music to match the
interview
● Drag and drop Loops into a song
● Try changing an “Automation” on one of your Tracks
● Add drum tracks by using the Beats tool
● BE CREATIVE!!
SO LET’S PLAY!
Questions? Contact me!
jocelyn.kervin@yrdsb.ca

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