Artefact 1 - DAW & Synthesis - Daft Punk - Around The World

This webpage will discuss my first Artefact. My recreation of Around The World by Daft Punk

Why I picked this project to use as an Artefact

I chose to select this project as an artefact as I felt it helped to showcase my new found love and drive for recreating Synth Patches used within electronic tracks while I put my own creativity in the tracks production.

Before starting the course I had never used Ableton Live and I thoroughly enjoy listening to electronic music especially French electronic house and techno, so I thought I'd give remaking a song a go. However I have used FL studio a multitude of times throughout the last couple of years via co-producing and mixing for people within my social space who are also interested in Audio and Producing music and Logic Pro in my final year of High School. This assignment was given to me early in the academic year so I was still going through the process of learning and understanding Ableton's workflow. Due to having free reign to create a song from scratch or make a cover it allowed me to reinforce my skills within the DAW whilst keeping me enticed to learn.

Passing Criteria:

Create a track using Ableton Live:
1. Original or cover
2. Use of sampler instrument 
3. Use of one synth patch 
4. 4 midi tracks minimum 
5. 3 audio tracks minimum 
6. At least one instance of dynamic processing
7. At least one instance of time domain effect 
8. 2:30 minutes minimum length

 

Main Bass Synthesiser 

I started making my track by creating the lead bass synth, I added Ableton's operator synth into a midi track and I stacked four oscillators with A being the main oscillator well the other three act as additional harmonics. I set the attack to be very quick and for each oscillator to have a short decay and low sustain to make each note sound more percussive I also applied a gentle high‑pass on the harmonics, added saturation, and tempo based modulation.  I feel this mix is relevant to my 

Sub Bass

I started making my track by creating the lead bass synth, I added Ableton's operator synth into a midi track and I stacked four oscillators with A being the main oscillator well the other three act as additional harmonics. I set the attack to be very quick and for each oscillator to have a short decay and low sustain to make each note sound more percussive I also applied a gentle high‑pass on the harmonics, added saturation, and tempo based modulation. 

Drums 

I made my drums using Ableton’s stock 909 kit and layered in an extra kick from the Ableton library for more low‑end weight. I ran the kit through a Bass Fattener to reinforce sub frequencies and add harmonic thickness, then used a gate and transient shaping to tighten the hits so they stayed punchy. I carved the mids with EQ, and I added light compression to bring the kit together, and I created a sidechain for my kick drum with a limiter and a EQ preset that brings up the low frequencies. 

Main Lead Synthesiser 

I started making my track by creating the Lead synth, I used the Tal Bassline Plugin which emulates the Roland-303 used by Daft Punk to create their synths into a midi track that I sequenced and I and built a detuned saw/pulse patch with high cutoff and a short resonance, medium filter attack short decay and low sustain for percussive notes. I set the attack to be very quick and for each oscillator to have a short decay and low sustain to make each note sound more percussive. For my sidechain I applied a gentle high‑pass on the harmonics, added saturation to boost high frequencies, and added  modulation. 

Vocoder & Vocals

For making the vocal track I sequenced the MIDI for the vocoder and I dragged in a default Ableton synth patch. On the vocoder input channel I applied a vocoder and adjusted the frequency range to be quite high, I also used a Saturator and auto panning with a moderate panning rate to give space to the mix. I sampled the original around the world vocal stems and applied corrective EQ I also added auto shift to tighten and stabilise the pitch so the output and vocoder input remain robotic and articulate like the original track.

Link to the Final mix

Overall I believe this artefacts helps showcase that I am capable of producing and that I have skill sets outside of recording inside of a studio environment. I thoroughly enjoyed putting my own spin on this great track.

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