Eight weekly sessions beginning mid-October, weekends from 9 a.m. to noon or Mondays from 7 to 10 p.m.; $300 per level. Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, 161 W. 22nd Street (366-9176).

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So you wanna be a rock-and-roll star -- without leaving home? A thousand bucks buys a bare-bones recording system for a personal computer, and for about two grand you can get your CD pressed. MP3 allows anyone to sell music at its site, and Amazon.com Advantage is now accepting indie records. Zealous autodidacts should check out the proliferation of information on the Web (www.virtualstudio.org and www.harmonycentral.com are good places to start). The New School offers classes in midi, synthesizers, and home recording. Fred Winston, director of the Guitar Study Center, recommends Making Music With Computers and Making the Most of MIDI as "user and buyer guides for project studio people." The Institute of Audio Research's alums include Oscar winner Roma Baran and Jack Douglas, producer for the Beatles and Aerosmith. With an 87 percent placement rate for graduates, IAR apparently delivers a skill set that can actually land you a job. The 600-hour Recording Engineering and Production Program can be completed full-time (days) in six months or part-time (evenings) in nine months and offers an internship program in New York recording studios.

"Making Music With Computers," four sessions beginning September 29, Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.; $250; "Making the Most of midi," twelve sessions beginning September 28, Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.; $370. The New School (229-5690).

Institute of Audio Research, 64 University Place (777-8550).

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