Take The Stairs

Tempo: 125 bpm
Key: A#m 3A
Vocal: Yes
Length: 5:37
Made in: Ableton Live 12
Copies: One

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House track with a royalty-free vocal hook, 125 BPM, A# minor. Built on a synth hook. Extended Mix (5:38) and Radio Edit (4:36), each with an Instrumental version. Includes mastered and unmastered WAVs, labeled stems and MIDI, plus the full Ableton Live project (12.4.5 Beta 3) for free. For fans of John Summit and Max Styler.

Inside the project

Hybrid

The music is original: bass, sub, organ, piano, pluck and strings are written in MIDI and played with Serum 2 and Serum. The vocal, the atmosphere and FX layers and the drum sounds come from royalty-free sample packs.

Ableton Live arrangement view of Take The Stairs: 37 tracks, 176 bars at 125 bpm — The Ableton Live project you get: 37 tracks, 176 bars at 125 bpm.Click to enlarge

Setup

DAW: Ableton Live 12.4.5 beta 3
System: macOS
Synths: Serum 2, Serum
Plugins: Serum 2, OTT, soothe2, Kickstart 2, Endless Smile, UADx Empirical Labs Distressor, Serum, Pro-Q 4, Ozone 12 Exciter, Fresh Air, Neutron 5 Transient Shaper, ShaperBox 3, EchoBoy, UADx Capitol Mastering Compressor, FabFilter Pro-MB, FabFilter Pro-L 2

The project opens in this version of Live or newer. Third-party plugins aren't included; without them the set still opens, and every part is rendered in the stems.

Vocals

Female vocal from a royalty-free sample pack, licensed for commercial release. Chorus, verse and bridge phrases are used.

The vocal sample isn't exclusive: other producers can license the same pack. The track is sold once.

Vocal stems: Vocal RevVerb, Vocal Shot, Vocal Verse and Vocal. Instrumental versions are included.

Arrangement

Intro: bars 1–16
Verse: bars 17–32
Build: bars 33–48
Drop: bars 49–80
Verse 2: bars 81–96
Build: bars 97–104
Drop 2: bars 105–160
Outro: bars 161–176

16-bar intro and 16-bar outro to mix in and out. The radio edit runs 4:36.

What you get

File	Includes	Format
Extended mix 5:38	Master and unmastered mixdown	WAVMP3
Radio edit 4:36	Master and unmastered mixdown	WAVMP3
Instrumentals	Extended and radio, master and unmastered mixdown	WAVMP3
Stems	34 files: 16 stems for the groups and FX, 18 for the tracks inside the groups See the list Atmo Phaser, Atmos Loop, Bass, Candy Bass, Crash Rev, Downlifter, Drums, Fill, Kick + Sub, Laser, Long Fill, Riser 2, Riser, Synth Group, Uplifter, Vocal Group Clap Fill, Clap, Crash, Ghost Perc, Hat 16, Hat, Ride, Kick, Sub, Organ, Piano 2, Piano, Pluck, Strings, Vocal RevVerb, Vocal Shot, Vocal Verse, Vocal	WAV
MIDI	7 parts: Bass, Organ, Piano, Piano 2, Pluck, Strings, Sub	MID
Ableton Live project	The Ableton Live 12.4.5 beta 3 set with its 38 samples collected	ALS
Rights agreement	In your name, sent by email within a day of payment	PDF

WAV: 24-bit, 44.1 kHz. MP3: 320 kbps, masters only. One download, about 1.6 GB.