Chopped Juno stabs, resonant basslines, LinnDrum grooves and a woozy DX outro, recreated from Discovery.
Daft Punk’s Short Circuit is the ninth track on Discovery, but its first half dates back to the Homework era. It’s built in a sample-based way: separate synth phrases are sequenced one at a time, so the stabs, swells and basslines lock together into a chopped, interlocking groove, before the song turns into a melancholic four-bar chord progression at the 1:38 mark.
This Ableton Live remake recreates the full arrangement using TAL U-NO-LX, Arturia DX7 V and LinnDrum samples. It includes the high and low stabs, the filter swell, the resonant bassline, the layered stereo outro synths and the drum programming.
Each remake comes as two ZIP downloads: the full Ableton Live project with every track frozen, and multitrack WAV stems for every audio track with MIDI files for every MIDI part.
Ableton Live 11 or later. To edit or unfreeze the tracks:
