Westend – Feels Better Ableton Remake (Tech House)
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This Ableton remake of Westend – “Feels Better” combines deep bass, groove-driven percussion, catchy vocal elements, and polished tech house sound design. Includes MIDI, Samples, arrangement workflow, and professional mix techniques that help improve creativity and modern music production skills.
Project Details:
File size: 66.4 MB
DAW: Ableton Live 11.1.6 Suite, or higher
VST Plugins: xfer's Serum v2.0.16, Kickstart 2
Song Key: A Min
Time Length: 4:59
Genre: Tech House / House
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Inside The Project Westend – Feels Better Ableton Remake
1) Bass
Progression: F#1 → D#1 → A#1 → G#1
The bass runs in two layers on Serum 2, playing off each other like a low end double act. Bass Main Low keeps things grounded — a sub oscillator paired with three basic wavetable oscillators, filtered simply, with just the filter and stereo width breathing underneath. Bass Main High is where the personality comes in: an automated decay parameter stretches short notes out into long, sustained ones, while modulation on oscillator C constantly reshapes its waveform, giving the tone a restless, shifting character on top of its own filter movement. Locked together with the drums, the two layers glue straight into the groove — the low end holding the floor down while the high layer breathes and pulses right alongside the kick and percussion.
2) Chords
Progression: Ebm → F# → Ab → Bbm7/9 → Ab → Db
The bridge chords are carried by two Serum 2 presets — Piano, built from a multisampled upright layered with granular piano tails for extra texture, and Pad, a wavetable pad with heavy unison for width. The piano states the chords directly while the pad fades in and out underneath, smoothly rising and falling to underline the transition toward the drop rather than sitting there statically.
Harmonically, the progression keeps drifting rather than settling, landing briefly on a lush i7/9 before pulling away again — a bittersweet lift that builds anticipation heading into the drop.
3) Pluck
Progression: C#2/A#1 → A#1 (repeating)
The plucks play across two Serum 2 instruments — Pluck 1 as the foundation, built from three layered wavetable oscillators with a short, punchy envelope for that classic plucked attack, and Pluck 2 sitting on top as accents. Together they melodically complement the drums, hitting on accents that thread small melodic movement into the groove rather than just doubling the rhythm.
4) Drums
The drums lock into that classic driving Tech House groove — punchy kick, tight percussion layers weaving in and out, everything built to keep a room moving from the first bar. The percussion work is where it really shines: layered hits fill the space between the kick without crowding it, giving the whole thing a rolling, hypnotic pulse that just feels good to move to. It's a groove built for peak-time energy — tight, functional, and endlessly danceable, capturing that summer-festival, NYC dancefloor feel the track is going for.
5) Arrangement / Full Project View
All TMA projects and templates are built with a clean, professional and consistent arrangement, so you can quickly understand the structure, find every production element — MIDI, notes, chords, Serum presets, samples, sound design and mix techniques — and borrow tips and tricks for your own music production, saving valuable time and helping you improve your music skills.