The piano tone is the one I wanted for this track as it has exactly the tone I wanted to go with the delay effect.
Some of it is time distorted, yes. While it's a piano instrumental, I wanted some layered vocals to add atmosphere. These were mostly royalty-free samples from magazine DVDs, dragged into
Live 9, warped, sliced, and repitched. As an example, the woman's voice singing, "I'm so free" was originally sung by someone I would imagine to be in their early to mid twenties. By the time I got it where I wanted it, it sounds like a much more mature woman.
I took the cymbal sample and reversed it, then put the reversed part before the normal part, so it fades in then out. With the rhythm of the drum loop I've got playing over the main percussion MIDI, the cymbals were intended to almost give a kind of tidal effect, as if you're listening in a boat or by the sea.
There's a cabasa sample on the right-hand side - and I checked, I have my headphones on the right way round.
I can't hear anything clicky on the left side. But both my KRK KNK6400 headphones and my not-so-good PC monitors seem to be insensitive in the high frequencies, so I might be missing something.
I have to apologise, though. I put up the version that I submitted as part of the Coursera
Introduction to Ableton Live assignments. Since then, I've changed the synth pads back to how I originally wanted them and added some more backing vocals using Realitone Blue, then remixed it. So I posted on here too early. The (hopefully) finished version is now up on
Soundcloud. Thanks for listening and thanks for the feedback.
Edit: I just had another listen and realised that there was an unwanted kick track on there that I must have forgotten to delete. Shows what you can overlook when you're too close to the music. Maybe that's what was clicky.