Pink Floyd covers? Now I have to jump in here. B-)
Pink Floyd is my favourite band, so the first thing I'm trying in my new music producing hobby that started first thing this year is a cover of Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Mostly inspired by the live versions. Mine will be a drum and bass / reggae dub version, with climate change protest lyrics.
Yes I am using several instruments playing the same thing as was mentioned before.
The bass is Yoshimi -> The William Godfrey Collection -> Fretless Bass & Sub Delay + Calf Fluidsynth -> Star Theme + a sub bass sound I made with Surge.
The drum toms are hard, Nick Mason is using at least six toms (depending on version) and playing them with timpani mallets. Couldn't find a drum sound like that that I could play as tuned toms. So that's Surge -> Chip Bass Hit & Dark Bass + Yoshimi -> Olivers-100 -> Drum Kit (includes an octave and a half of toms). Nick Mason is crazy good and I've only got the basic rhythm he does some of the time, he's just all over the place and I've only been learning MIDI keyboard and drum pad since the beginning of the year.
Not got to the keyboards and weird guitar sounds yet, but in some versions there's bird type noises, which inspired me. Since I'm mostly following the live versions, where Roger Waters (usually, Nick Mason got to do it once) spends some time going ape shit on a gong, I'm doing something similar combining them. So it's layered Aussie bird song, beach waves, and gong. For good measure I throw in the main bass line as sung by "Bird Tweet" and "Bird 2" from the FluidR3_GM and FluidR3_GS sound fonts. Though the Bird 2 one seems to have the tones backwards, so I call it "2 drib".
I'll probably add a vibraphone to, since I think that gets played in some versions.
The singing is hard, since I last sang in the early 70's, so my singing voice is far too rusty. As you might have seen in another topic I started, having trouble finding open source synth singing that doesn't require using Windows backends through WINE. So at the moment all I got is crappy Festival singing mode.