For this sound, I used the Omnisphere preset Adagio Expressivo which uses samples of real strings. The Juno synth pad is layered with some background strings which can be heard most clearly at 2:08. The Juno’s onboard chorus effect is a big part of its sound, so turn on the Chorus II effect. The filter envelope is set to 2.7 with the ADSR envelope set up with an attack of 4, decay of 7 and no sustain which adds some movement to the sound. The patch uses the sawtooth oscillator with both filters (high-pass and low-pass) set to halfway, resulting in a mid-range focused sound. To recreate the Voyager synth sound I’ve used TAL U-NO-LX, a software emulation of the Roland Juno synths. The main chord sound in Voyager was likely recorded on the Roland Juno-106 which Daft Punk had been using live since as early as 1995 as well as on the Homework. There’s no vocal line or main melody but the track works because it just feels good. Voyager is a straightforward French House track built around a lush 4-bar chord sequence over a funky bassline and four-to-the-floor drums. “We didn’t sample Supertramp, but we had the original Wurlitzer piano they used, so we thought it would be more fun to have the original instrument and mess around with it.” “On ‘Digital Love,’ you get this Supertramp vibe on the bridge,” remarks de Homem-Christo. “In at least one instance on Discovery, Daft Punk used a vintage keyboard to evoke a specific artist from another era. The following quote perfectly sums up their approach: Whereas a large part of Homework, Daft Punk’s debut album, was crafted of samples of funk and soul records, Discovery saw them experiment more with recording their own samples. In a 2001 interview with the French Keyboard magazine, Daft Punk listed the following pieces of gear used on Discovery: Enjoy!įor early live shows, Daft Punk would utilise LinnDrum and Roland TR-909 drum machines alongside a Roland Juno-106 and TB-303 for synths. This article features my remakes of the songs Voyager, Short Circuit, Veridis Quo and Aerodynamic and deconstruct the synth sounds behind them.Īs always, all the TAL U-NO-LX and Arturia V Collection presets featured in the remakes are available for free download at the end of the article. The duo had amassed an enviable synth collection at this point but still relied on the most-used synth, the Roland Juno-106. For this article, I wanted to pay tribute to my personal favourite Daft Punk album, and the one that started my fascination with electronic music in the first place, Discovery.Īlthough Discovery is most famous for the creative use of chopped and looped samples on singles like One More Time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, there are also plenty of synth-driven tracks. Their legendary career gave us four groundbreaking studio albums, the Tron: Legacy soundtrack, two movies and two classic live albums. Yesterday, Daft Punk announced that they were calling it quits after 28 years.
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