SAE Institute of Technology - San Francisco

Welcome to SAE Institute

Since the establishment of SAE Institute in 1976 by Dr. Tom Misner, SAE Institute has continued growing as an international network of post secondary education schools providing audio recording, digital film, multimedia, animation and game development training. SAE Institute is represented in twenty countries on four continents. SAE has six institutes in the US: New York, Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, LA, and now San Francisco! SAE's Alumni Association is truly global.

SAE San Francisco currently offers two course: the signature Audio Technology Program diploma that trains for careers in the music and post production industries, and SAE's Electronic Music Production course, avocational training covering all the tools, tips and tricks involved in producing electronic music.

News & Events

SAE Institute Opening Early 2009

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Construction is underway at SAE's newest location. SAE San Francisco is located at 450 Bryant Street in the historic SOMA district of San Francisco. Right across from South Park, the school occupies over 13,000 square feet of prime creative space. The new school will offer 20 recording studios and workstations as well as three full A/V classrooms. The SOMA area is home to several technology headquarters and branch locations for companies such as Wired, Sega of America, CNET Networks, Current TV, and Ubisoft.

SAE San Francisco Contact Details:
450 Bryant Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tel: 415-344-0886
Fax: 415-344-0237
Email: saesf@sae.edu

SAE San Francisco Now Taking Applications for 2009

The Application, Tuition Fees and General Brochure are all available for download from this web site. Please click on Brochures to download them in PDF format. If you incur any problems downloading or opening the files, please feel free to contact us.
Email: saesf@saee.edu

Program Start Dates:

Audio Technology Program (Diploma)
All ATP students receive (included in tuition): Text books, Apple MacBook with 1-year AppleCare, Pro Tools, Logic 8 Studio, Peak LE, & Headphones
Full Time (9 months, morning & afternoon): March 9th, 2009; July 6th 2009, September 28th 2009

Part Time (18 months,evening): May 4th 2009, October 26th 2009
Electronic Music Producer (Certificate)
Part Time (3 months, evening, two nights a week): April 16th, 2009

Release of Ardour 2.7 - Free Open Source DAW FOR OS X

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Thanks to the support of SAE Institute, the Apple OS X version of the popular free audio editing software will be available for download as of November 17, 2008.

Digital recording, mixing with professional plugins, fast, intuitive editing, audio analysis of percussive material plus simple time- and pitch correction … and all of this for free? Enter the SAE version of Ardour for OS X!

In April 2007, SAE Institute agreed to become a corporate sponsor for the Ardour project. Focus of the collaboration between Paul Davis, creator and developer of Ardour, and Armand Klenk, Head Instructor Audio at SAE Munich, was the development of an OS X version of the Linux-based software. A special student version, created in a parallel effort, will now make the open-source digital audio workstation even more accessible to beginners.

Ardour has become a fixture in many European universities and other educational institutions and is routinely employed in experimental research projects.

The SAE version of Ardour for OS X will be available for download by CLICKING HERE.

SAE Institute at 125th AES Convention - San Francisco

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Thanks to everyone who came by the SAE booth at the 125th AES Convention in San Francisco. Lots of people walked away with a great grab bag with lots of shwag. Staff and Alumni were also able to answer questions about SAE's Audio Technology Program and Electronic Music Production Program. A lot of attention also went to the brand new NEVE GENESYS console that had been specially flowin in from the UK to be demonstrated. Thanks to everyone who came by the SAE booth at the 125th AES Convention in San Francisco. Lots of people walked away with a great grab bag with lots of shwag. Staff and Alumni were also able to answer questions about SAE's Audio Technology Program and Electronic Music Production Program. A lot of attention also went to the brand new NEVE GENESYS console that had been specially flowin in from the UK to be demonstrated.

Audio Technology Program (Diplomas Partners with AudioCourses.com

Audio Courses SAE Institute have teamed up with Audiocourses.com to launch a new distance learning education division has become a number one location for distance learning with several courses available in areas such as music technology, recording techniques, digital audio and audio for video.

Download a FREE copy of SAE Magazine

The new issue of the SAE Magazine, which features articles, interviews, reports, profiles and much more.
The SAE Magazine is the joint publication of SAE Institute and the SAE Alumni Association. All 108 pages of the new issue are available for download (PDF, 12.3 MB). We hope you enjoy the content.