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Old 06-15-2007, 10:48 AM   #1
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Is there currently a way to isolate a single instrument/sound from a bunch of sounds? I'm not talking about using specific software which isolates tracks. Say you've lost all the individual tracks to something, and it was just the 1 wave.
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Old 06-15-2007, 10:50 AM   #2
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This is critical thinking?

Anyway, yeah there's a way I believe, but it requires a precise sample of what you want removed from the track.
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Old 06-15-2007, 11:01 AM   #3
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Default Re: Decomposing

You're going to have to expand on what you mean before I can really answer this question.

You can figure out exactly what frequencies are present in a signal pretty easily. It's called a Fourier Transform (I'm guess that's why you titled this thread decomposing).

As far as removing a sound due to an instrument and not impacting the rest of the music. That would be complicated but I'm sure there's a way to do it. Someone probably already wrote software to do it but it's probably not freeware.
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Old 06-15-2007, 02:17 PM   #4
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I thought Fourier analysis never got nitty gritty enough to replicate timbre very well at all. Doesn't granular synthesis do that? Furthermore, you're not isolating any 1 sound, you're just breaking the thing down into sine waves, right?
How can we discriminate timbres in a song by examining the wave such that it matches the discriminating timbres we hear as different instruments?
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