Moving To Canada

[Glenn Stanton]

something left over from the last, er, election-thingie. just in case.

 

[PhonoBrainer]

Hey nice one! Is that a French translation of your lyrics that the lady is singing, or just random Quebecor?  Very nice presentation of the lyrics. I was in Montreal a while back, that's an awesome city in most respects!

Maybe a bit more in the drum fills / drum programming department? Just a thought. I liked the breakdown, cool groove there. The song has a very cool Thomas Dolby vibe, which is high praise indeed. The sax - Men at Work?  That was a good listen, thanks!

 

cheers,

-Tom

[Glenn Stanton]

thanks! the woman is the French voice from google translate that i ran through with Melodyne to increase the melodic inflections a bit. Sax is my voice converted to MIDI then run through DimPro Tenor.  i kinda deliberately left the drum parts simpler since there was a lot of other stuff going on.

[Lynn Wilson]

Very nice, Glenn.  It sort of sums up my feelings, too.  This is fun to listen to, and the mix is very good.  Well done!

[Fred's Gratis Scores]

Wow, I had no idea a voice could be converted to MIDI. Modern marvels.

Cool track!

[Wookiee]

Interesting song, I did personally find the spoken words a little intrusive to the main lyric, but that may be because yours was my first tune of the day.

Sorry for an apparent highjack @Glenn Stanton.

@Fred's Gratis Scores On my Reverbnation page there is a tune called Wookiee Voices which was made entirely by converting my vocal to MIDI.

[Glenn Stanton]

thanks @Wookiee - i deliberately let the french and english clash (historical maybe ? ) 

yeah, using Melodyne - you can convert a lot of stuff - guitar, bass, voice, piano, etc to MIDI. i often use the voice tracks to add some background pads, leads, etc. guitar i often convert chords to piano and organ, leads into sax, synth, etc. I have Melodyne 5 Editor so polyphonic works quite well. the only thing i don't find converts reliable are drums, but that's what drum replacer is for ? 

my belief is: however you get the notes in, you can reuse them for all kinds of interesting instrumentation.