Control Room B
This is where the lessons on Electro-acoustics and on Recording and Mixing Techniques take place. Here the students enter into direct contact with the essential tools of the trade used by sound technicians, and practice mixing on an analogue bench or using the outboards most commonly used in live performances.

Synthesis and Sampling Laboratory
This laboratory is where the practical Synthesis and Sampling lessons are held. Either with the help of a teacher or by themselves, the students can practice on real equipment, and try their hand at programming synthesizers or creating sound libraries.

Pre-production laboratory
Arrangement and MIDI Pre-production lessons are held in this laboratory, which is more specifically related to the course for Tecnico di Musica Interattiva per le Arti Digitali (Digital Arts Interactive Music Technician). Equipped with the instruments and software most commonly used during the pre-production stages of any piece of music, the student can record vocal tracks and instrumental backing, edit audio and MIDI on sequencers, and program synthesizers, expanders and samplers.

Control Room A
Considered the school’s main control room, control room A can boast a Pro Tools Mix+ Digidesign system and the main softwares used in professional audio, as well as a digital mixer and pre-amp, compression and valve equalization section. A double listening system, a permanent video link-up with the recording study complete the list of equipment, while the room is hard-wired to the Sala Verdi, the vocal booth and the synthesis and sampling room.
This room is often used in conjunction with the recording studio for lessons on recording and mixing techniques, microphone techniques, computer music, audio/video and production techniques.

Sala Verdi - Recording Studio
The convent’s old chapel has today become the Sala Verdi, which features natural acoustics and a series of mixed surfaces within an area of 120 square metres. This room, however, has a dual function: it is the recording studio for the courses held by the new technologies department, which uses it for recording sessions and lessons on microphone and recording techniques and the use of live systems; whereas during the periods of the year when it is taken over by the classical music department it becomes the orchestra’s rehearsal room and the studio for its recording sessions.
ACCOMMODATION
RESIDENCE
The School offers students who enrol for the courses the opportunity to live-in, providing living accommodation in the basement of the school, which was once the convent’s vault.
The residential area follows the plan of the upper floor, and there are three long corridors onto which 20 rooms open, with three communal areas.
The rooms are of different sizes, are fully furnished with bed and pillow, wardrobe, bedside table and writing desk. The rooms may contain 1, 2, 3 or 4 beds.
The building is centrally heated.

THINGS TO KNOW
What you need to know
Only enrolled students can occupy the rooms and only for the duration of the course.
Bedding, blankets and towels are not provided by the school unless the room is occupied for a short period only.
The bathrooms and other communal areas are cleaned daily, while the student is responsible for keeping his/her own room clean and tidy. There is no refectory and no animals are allowed on the premises.

Safety
All students enrolled in the professional training courses are insured against accidents both when at school or on placements.
Students are responsible for their own belongings, and are required to observe the safety notices (in accordance with Dlgs 626/95 and refrain from using household appliances that do not conform to CE certification, or gas rings in the rooms.