This is my attempt to learn the basics of Ableton Live by doing a cover of Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
You can listen to the song on YouTube by clicking on the image below.
The song is completely done from scratch, but I had to import the guitar solo from a MIDI file.
There is a MIDI track for each instrument, whereas vocals are rendered as an Audio track.
Ozzy's voice is isolated via Moises.ai starting from an MP3 downloaded from this YouTube video.
Version of Ableton Live: 11.3.4 Cover image generated with Stable Diffusion.
- kHs ONE Synthesizer: lead guitar (intro and solo) and second pad
- Surge XT: main pad
- Surrealistic MG-1 Plus: bass
- DS drum rack with default samples from Ableton Live 11: snare drum and cymbals
- 808 sample pack by Music Radar: kick drum
- Intro (guitar, bass, drums)
- Verse instruments (guitar, bass, drums)
- Intermezzo instruments (guitar, bass, drums)
- Chorus instruments (guitar, bass, drums)
- Bridge instruments (guitar, bass, drums)
- Outro instruments (guitar, bass, drums)
- Add voice and quantize it
- Automation to completely silence the voice when not needed
- Guitar solo (imported from a MIDI exported from the GP file)
- Choose final instruments for each track
- Explore interesting more electro-pop variations for each instrument and phase of the song
- Add effects to all instruments
- Add effects to voice
- Mixing (levels, reverb, panning, ...)
- Mastering
- Export and upload to YouTube