I’d started preparing this article to post around the anniversary of “Discovery”, however Daft Punk broke up before then, so I ended up pulling an all-nighter to get this out the day after they broke up. They’re fun remakes of original, inventive songs. I’d read that they relied on the Roland Juno-106 more than people usually credit them for, so I relied on TAL U-NO-LX for most of the synth parts and found it did a great job.
Note that the Aerodynamic project only recreates the ending synth section featured in the article, not the entire song. The other three remakes are all of the complete songs.
The included Ableton Live Projects contain the following tracks:
Aerodynamic
6 tracks:
Main Brass
Panned Delay Effect
DX7
Phaser Pad
Noise Riser
Drums
Short Circuit
7 tracks:
Main Synth 1
Main Synth 2
Swell
303 Bass
Juno Outro
Bass Outro
Drums
Veridis Quo
8 tracks:
DX7 Flute
DX7 Organ
Organ Bass
Main Bass
Phaser Pad
Arp
Drums
Hi Hat
Voyager
10 tracks:
Synth Chords
String Layer
Guitar Loop 1
Guitar Loop 2
Guitar Loop 3
DX7 Harp
Bass
Drums
Shaker Loop
Perc Loop
These Ableton Live Projects require Ableton Live 11 or later and use the following plugins:
Synths
TAL U-NO-LX
Arturia Mini V
Arturia DX7 V
Arturia Prophet V
Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 (Voyager only)
Effects
D16 Decimort 2
iZotope Ozone Imager (free)
Softube Fix Phaser
Soundtoys Decapitator
Soundtoys Microshift (Verdis Quo only)
TAL Chorus (free)
Valhalla VintageVerb
All tracks have been frozen so if you’re missing any of the above plugins, you’ll still be able to hear the tracks and play the project. If you own the plugins, you can unfreeze the tracks to edit the sounds.