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My first VRC6 song. The sawtooth is absolutely essential, I feel, in a song such as this. If anyone has any VRC6-specific tips/tricks, I'd love to know them.
I like it, but the saw is a bit too out in front. The purpose of putting a duty setting on saw is to make it obnoxiously loud or, as I just noticed by some experimentation, adding an overtone to the bassline. See what
(Granted, I actually haven't heard the source song in full, so the bassline could really be that loud. It [i]is[/i] dance music, after all.)
(After seeing a file Phazon has in the library, I messed around with the sawtooth's instrument. See what you think; when I looked at it, it didn't seem any softer, but that was after I had it open for a while.)
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Nice cover. I, unlike others, don't judge people from the stuff they decide to cover. Yours is good in its own right. It even reminds me of an AY cover of Madonna's Hung Up by Factor6. :p
Like icesoldier said, my only gripe with it is the saw bassline, but then again it's probably appropriate in this genre of music.
Lucien Lachance? Hm, are you Quebecois as well, perhaps? That sounds very French Canadian to me.
I don't really see much of a difference between French Canadian & French names in general (unless you're talking about names from Southern France/Occitania).
Which reminds me; I had a listen to the original & the NES cover. As much as I hate the song itself in general (& Lady Gaga herself in general, for that matter) the cover's quite well done.
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& for all the haters, myself included, just consider it an [i]upgraded[/i] version
I don't care to listen to the original since I don't care about accuracy. But coming from the perspective of a dance music lover, I think the saw is fine, except that it over powers the Tri kicks. Maybe you could change the saw envelope to feign some side-chain compression. (well, at least whenever the tri is concurrently playing)
[edit:] See attachment. Instrument 0C mimics the compression. And BTW, Saw pulsewidth works as either even number or odd number. So 1 is the same as 7.
[quote=TechEmporium]I don't really see much of a difference between French Canadian & French names in general (unless you're talking about names from Southern France/Occitania).[/quote]
There is one! France and Europe have a lot of last names we don't, and vice versa. Quebecois last names very often (but not always) involve either the profession or a particular characteristic of one's ancestor. My own last name (Lepage), for instance, refers to the word "page", in the sense of a young servant who attends a person of higher stature (king, duke, baron, etc.).
Other names like this include Frenette come from fer + net, implying that person was a blacksmith (fer = iron); Couture & Couturier (actual nouns that mean sewing and "one who sews", respectively), Lesage (obvious), Fortier (contraction of "forestier"), etc.
I just looked it up, and Lachance is very rarely seen in France and other French-speaking european countries and regions; it was given to people who were extremely lucky (chance = luck, in French), and was given to a handful of soldiers, which explains why it is seen more often in Quebec than anywhere else. ([url=http://www.geneanet.org/nom-de-famille/lachance]reference)
Hmm... Interesting. You also forgot names like Poirier, Armurier & so on. Most names that are associated with a trade are common with cultures that have a strong feudal past (France, Québec, Germany, the Middle East, England, etc.). Mind you, place names used as last names are more common in cultures where displacement were common (notably in times of war, famine or due to economic reasons). In short, Québec's history is relatively more peaceful when compared to France's older, more war-torn & disease-ridden history, which explains why there aren't many people with place/clan names as their last names.
[quote=Xyz_39808]& for all the haters, myself included, just consider it an [i]upgraded[/i] version.[/quote]
No thanks. :P
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