The Covert Operators

After a recent discussion on the Ableton forum regarding the Calvin Harris "sound" I decided to try out some of the techniques involved in that lovely little track Accetable in the 80s.

The following example is done in Live 7 using only Analog and a drum rack. Very simple, except for the bass sound, which I found hard to acheive using the overly resonant formant filters in there.

I had a great deal of fun on this, which means I probably ended up "grooving" more than actually reaching the same sound, but here it is, you judge for yourself.

 http://www.myspace.com/calvinharristv

and:

My version 

and for all you live 7 heads, here's what I got so far with the .als file - all sounds are included, all free, all Covert Ops (alright, and a bit of that Harris chap).