Paul McCartney “Wonderful Christmastime” Remake Project
This pack features the Ableton Live Project for my remake of Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime, as featured in my article on the song.
This remake features two synth tracks – the main Yamaha CS-80 plucks and the high strings, recreated using Arturia Prophet-5 V. The original song was played live – not sequenced, so transcribing it was a challenge. There are two guitar breaks in the original song, so I recorded some basic guitar tracks using my Gibson Les Paul into my Kemper Profiler set to a Fender Princeton model; I then recreated most of the tone using Ableton Live’s EQ8 and Delay effects. I split this guitar recording across 3 tracks for easier mixing and for different tones.
The included Ableton Live Project features the following tracks:
- 2 synth MIDI tracks
- 3 guitar audio tracks
- 3 MIDI drum tracks
This Ableton Live Project requires Ableton Live 11 or higher and uses the following plugins:
Synths
- Arturia CS-80 V4
- Arturia Prophet-5 V
Effects
- iZotope Ozone Imager 2 (free plugin)
- Soundtoys Decapitator
- Soundtoys Little Plate
- 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.