Lady Gaga square

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Hey,

So I've been listening to Lady Gaga's Just Dance, and I'm a fan of the square synth at 0:00-0:10

Can someone please tell me how to recreate it in Sytrus?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNwM ... kmGSTnTlPS

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LD - Gaga Just Dance.zip
Had this in my VItal folder
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CHOOSX Remakes on my Youtube Channel

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CHOOS wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 5:40 pm LD - Gaga Just Dance.zip

Had this in my VItal folder
Thanks, I'll try to recreate that in Sytrus.

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I tried.
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The key to this sound is to run an LFO with a downwards saw wave on the pitch (but the modulation amount is in the cents - not semitones). You need a sufficiently fast LFO for this, and the LFO rate must be keytracked. Add a bit of chorus/doubling and done.

This also means you can construct it out of a short sample of a square wave dropping in pitch. Looping that means you get the keytracking for free :)

I'm a firm believer in trying to be as lazy as possible and using the tool that gives the fastest results, so if Vital does the trick, use that unless there's a very specific reason why you want to avoid 3rd party plugins. That said, I think your recreation works well! You might turn up the modulation amount a tiny bit and add chorus :)

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Instatetragrammaton wrote: Sat Feb 07, 2026 7:38 pm The key to this sound is to run an LFO with a downwards saw wave on the pitch (but the modulation amount is in the cents - not semitones). You need a sufficiently fast LFO for this, and the LFO rate must be keytracked. Add a bit of chorus/doubling and done.

This also means you can construct it out of a short sample of a square wave dropping in pitch. Looping that means you get the keytracking for free :)

I'm a firm believer in trying to be as lazy as possible and using the tool that gives the fastest results, so if Vital does the trick, use that unless there's a very specific reason why you want to avoid 3rd party plugins. That said, I think your recreation works well! You might turn up the modulation amount a tiny bit and add chorus :)
In the operator or the filter in Sytrus (not really a fan of 3rd-party plugins) never mind, I think I get the picture

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Second attempt, I lowered the unison pitch and increased the FX a bit.
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Meh.

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After a month or 2, I've made another version.
GagaSquare_v2.mp3
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Made a new version of the Gaga Square after 2 months (March! wow)
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