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Titanium (feat. Sia) [8bit bitpop chiptune cover]

from Bitpop 3 - Run​/​Stop Restore by zer0Page

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Why I've been mostly avoiding even simple pulse width modulation on this album is still unknown to me. It's an essential effect and one of the MOS6581 defining sounds.

My only reasonable theory why is that I'm trying to avoid having Bitpop 3 sound identical to the first two albums. I don't know if I'm succeeding or not and I don't feel particularly beholden to that theory either.

This time around I'm putting pulse and triangle waveforms on the bench. I've made all the tuned instruments in this track with the same sawtooth waveform sampled directly from a C64 SID Chip. Ok, I've used a few low pass filters to round off some of those reedy tones but they're still all sawtooth underneath. The other thing I do is layer several notes on top a base note to add a harmonic dynamic.

There is a little sine & pulse in the percussion and that's why I mentioned 'tuned' instruments.

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lyrics

You shout it out
But I can't hear a word you say
I'm talking loud not saying much
I'm criticized but all your bullets ricochet
You shoot me down, but I get up
I'm bulletproof nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am titanium, I am titanium, I am titanium, I am titanium
Cut me down
But it's you who has further to fall
Ghost town, haunted love
Raise your voice, sticks and stones may break my bones
I'm talking loud not saying much
I'm bulletproof nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am titanium, I am titanium
Stone-hard, machine gun
Firing at the ones who run
Stone-hard, thus bulletproof glass
You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium
I am titanium

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from Bitpop 3 - Run​/​Stop Restore, released September 7, 2017

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Gavin (zer0Page) Graham Brisbane, Australia

I was a demoscene programmer back in the 80s on the Commodore 64 computer. Part of what I did was write a sound player to exploited tricks to make its sound chip to some conceptually far fetched tricks.
Years later, I've revived my musical bent for the C64 but now I combine modern songs with these sounds of one of the greatest sounding computers of any generation.
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