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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:31 am
by a_sn
Lowpass wrote:hi how did you get the image of the sound?

I wanna try this one out asap
Open your sound in Photosounder then just press C to copy the image to the clipboard or click save and save as a bmp

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:14 am
by a_sn
abZ wrote:It is defiantly brilliant. Big up for that. I am a bit disappointed to come to the conclusion it is slightly over my head :lol:
Well, I'll try doing some easy tutorial. The non-Photoshop part (i.e. in Photosounder) is easy, it's all about opening and saving files, it's the Photoshop part that I guess is more confusing, correct?

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:47 am
by dj_march
That's incredible mate! My brain hurts from trying to work it out.

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:13 am
by Jah Billah
Funny ish. Talk about digital synethesia.

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:18 pm
by drwurst
good work. really. interesting technique!

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:31 pm
by nova.k
this is huge.... do you think it'd work for isolating vocal samples? Imagine the bootlegging potential! :)

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:51 am
by a_sn
nova.k wrote:this is huge.... do you think it'd work for isolating vocal samples? Imagine the bootlegging potential! :)
Well, not the way I did it, that's like microsurgery, you can spend an hour just to obtain a few seconds of change.. There would be other ways such as shown in another of my videos in which the images of the publicly available song's instrumental's image is subtracted to the full song's image to obtain the isolated vocals, but you need the instrumental for that. You probably could do it too on songs with very repetitive beats by just looping the clean beat..

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:34 am
by collective
A_SN wrote:
nova.k wrote:this is huge.... do you think it'd work for isolating vocal samples? Imagine the bootlegging potential! :)
Well, not the way I did it, that's like microsurgery, you can spend an hour just to obtain a few seconds of change.. There would be other ways such as shown in another of my videos in which the images of the publicly available song's instrumental's image is subtracted to the full song's image to obtain the isolated vocals, but you need the instrumental for that. You probably could do it too on songs with very repetitive beats by just looping the clean beat..

You are a legend.


This is exactly what I hoped for in melodyne but it never delivered. Well played.

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:58 am
by groucho_marxx
wow!

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:47 pm
by a_sn
Just posted a new tutorial showing how to do it. See here http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1124959

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:06 am
by a_sn


Same thing except done in 1 minute instead of 10 hours.

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:08 am
by boomstix
groundbreaking stuff, gunna be huge

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:53 am
by nitz
Does anyone know the theory behind how this works? or have a rough idea so i can go do some research it looks interesting

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:55 pm
by decklyn
What the fuck???????????????????????????????????????
This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how what when where huh?????

Can someone show me how to do this? holy shit.

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:20 am
by PROTOTYPE
this is ufcking crazy

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:18 am
by screech
thats sick!

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:02 pm
by JFK
Holy crap........

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. :o

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:14 pm
by serox
I have a nice vocal sample but it has some horrible background noise. I have struggled to remove it using filters and EQ's, would this help me?

Only had a quick look at work.

Re: New sound separation technique on Funky Worm

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:41 pm
by a_sn
nitz wrote:Does anyone know the theory behind how this works? or have a rough idea so i can go do some research it looks interesting
Well, it's not that straightforward to explain cause it's like new concepts on top of each other. The first one is the image-based filtering one. A sound is turned into an image that represents it, the image is modified by the user, the modified image is compared to the original image and the original sound is modified (filtered) to reflect the changes done to the image.

The rest builds on that as it's entirely an image processing problem. So then you've got a graphical brush tool that smart-erases lines to replace them with background, and a harmonics modifier that reproduces the effect of that brush tool onto each instance of harmonic overtones, and that magnet modifier to snap to the nearest lines. So that's just for erasing an harmonic instrument like that synth line, since what we want is the opposite result we calculate the difference between that and the original image to get the image we want.
decklyn wrote:What the fuck???????????????????????????????????????
This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how what when where huh?????

Can someone show me how to do this? holy shit.
Well, everything is shown in the new video I posted in this topic a few days ago. All the steps are there.
serox wrote:I have a nice vocal sample but it has some horrible background noise. I have struggled to remove it using filters and EQ's, would this help me?

Only had a quick look at work.
Yeah, how to do this was covered on my blog a few months ago :

http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/07/gr ... lenge.html
http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/07/gr ... ge_22.html

Check the contest result in the second link. That's substantially better than anything I've heard with regular denoising.