Thom Yorke Remake Projects

This collection contains the three Ableton Live Projects featured in my Thom Yorke’s Anima Synth Sounds article, which are partial remakes of the songs Dawn Chorus, Last I Heard and Twist. All of the synth tracks in this remakes were created with u-he Repro-5, a software emulation of the Sequential Prophet-5. The Dawn Chorus remake project has been tweaked slightly, and sounds closer to the original than the version presented in the original article. There are two Dawn Chorus projects, one with a MIDI master track that is then split into three separate MIDI tracks for individual processing (pictured below), and then a ‘frozen’ version where the MIDI track has been manually split into three voices so that the individual tracks can be frozen, which was done to allow those without u-he Repro-5 to open the project.

project screen thom dawn chorus
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The included Ableton Live Projects contain the following tracks:

Dawn Chorus

  • 3 synth tracks
  • 1 MIDI master track

Last I Heard

  • 1 synth track

Twist

  • 1 synth track
  • 1 piano audio track
  • 2 MIDI drum tracks

These Ableton Live Projects require Ableton Live 10.1 or later and use the following plugins:

Synths

  • u-he Repro-5

Effects

  • Soundtoys Decapitator
  • 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.