Leave Everything

By franky on March 22, 2026 7:27 pm

Week 12.."Leave Everything Behind"

I'm not great at describing my thought process, but its something I havn't quite done on here yet, so bare with me here. When I started this track, blank slate, I built my drums and then built the groove on the C note. However there was no variation outside the groove so I decided to jam around with different sounds samples and vocals for some inspiration on a melody. I landed on the main vocal that I got from splice, and then built the melody off that. There are 8 different instruments used, 1 drum rack for the main song and 2 drum racks for the break, 4 effects samples (up/downfilters) and 1 vocal. Still staying in my comfort zone using hi-low pass filters and simple delays. I have one limiter on the master and also Loudmax64 (its decent). The individual tracks are turned down and my master is to +10db. Not much stereo or sound tweaking because I havn't learned that yet, but The layout is probably my favorite type of arrangement that I like to do. I got lost in the mix a little so may have to revisit for that.

Anyway, I kind of feel like I exhausted Ableton 12 Standard's onboard effects and instruments. I still have one more upgrade to do with that DAW, but I'm really looking forward to using some vst's in the near future. One in particular, Serum 2. Kind a scared to take that leap because I never used any of them before. Also want to use more plug-ins.

Full transparency, I made a strong idea for this song last week. I didn't post it because I felt it deserved more time. What I didn't know then was that this song would end up being my escape from some stuff going on. Sometimes I wish I had a magic wand and could just wave it around and make everything better lol.

Also wanted to share a photo of my new setup where I've been making music this year. I'm really proud of it and enjoy it very much.