Tutorial - Instrument Isolation (Funky Worm)

[boilerheadz]

what are you doing ..???



[uduluthiers]

brilliant!

[touyingkai]

wow, that was pretty complicated. But essentially, a piano track can be isolated from a song? Oo because that's what i've been trying to do..well i only need a part that goes on for about (30 seconds). Would that be a very hard task for a novice like me? Oo

[Photosounder]

@touyingkai it'd be simple if you do it with Photosounder's built in tools that didn't exist back when this video was made. Check out some of my other videos, such as the horns isolation one, it's pretty close to the way you'd do it with a piano.

[zicer01]

Is it possible to remove speech from the track? it is a commercial for chrysler 300c( the artist) and I would like to remove the guy talking, but the problem is that the instruments fade to background then. So, is it possible to counter this and get a nice, smooth tune without those kind of oscillations? Thank you

[ZmajSnoshaj]

Are you using something similar to Corel PhotoImpact's cloning brush tool?  I'll have to dabble with this next! :)))

[Photosounder]

Yes

[lynnsp]

I also picked up on this perhaps being a ton of mouse movements. Your comment somewhere about possibly playing .. or singing a mimic of the part to then use that in making a template etc seemed interesting. But I didn't fully grasp how that is done. Like I say, I'm keeping an open mind on this and am willing to put some time into trying this thing out

[lynnsp]

My own stuff from the 60s. mono. multitracks long gone. For starters, I figure I'll isolate the vocal ... zap it out and save it for reloading or playing out of your program into a daw track on another computer.  Then experiment with playing the vocal-less mono basic track from your program into a spare recording daw track. Pan and ddl the basic mono track into a pseudo stereo track in the daw and re-position the now-isolated vocal in new mix. etc with guitars if any of this works.

[lynnsp]

ok.. i'm going to follow this through based on the conversations around the net including your posts with the guy who used Frequency. Sonicworx isn't an option so .. I don't understand how to load an entire mono song to knock out all instances of an instrument. Doing little chunks isn't going to work. How do I begin with an entire mono track?

[Photosounder]

You want to remove an instrument in a whole track? Well.. what type of track is it? Does the instrument often repeat itself?

[hl2vshalo2]

this has to be one of the shittiest applications ever made. I tried the demo and, its clunky, the gui doesnt resize when u resize the window, sound quality on most audio files is horrid (and it doesnt support sterio sound), the functions the buttons do are slow as hell, crashes easily, takes forever to load a new audio file when one is already loaded. to sum it up: this application is not even close to being ready to be sold to the world. wouldnt even be good if it was free.

[Photosounder]

What do you mean the GUI doesn't resize?? It resizes just the same way as any other program's interface. Sound quality would be just great if you had the brain power to realise you should push the button that reads "Lossless". Stereo support is coming. From the sound of the rest, either you have a shitty slow computer with no RAM (it crashes when running out of RAM) or you load up 30 minute long sounds.

[hl2vshalo2]

i mean the GUI doesnt resize, idiot. u drag the window to be larger, and it doesnt do anything, it just adds white to the sides. learn to program your fucking C++. no, my pc isnt slow, I've got 4 gb of ram as well. I did push the lossless button idiot, and how the fuck could you sell this if it doesnt have sterio support? YOUR APP SUCKS.

[Photosounder]

The resize thing only does that if you resize while a sound is loading. How can the audio quality possibly suck if the lossless mode is on, it's lossless, what you hear is strictly identical to the sound you load. And no one cares about stereo as much as you do. I don't even think any similar app does the image thing in stereo, not even Audition iirc.

[hl2vshalo2]

uhh, resize does it at ALL times. and the audio quality DOES suck because it merges stereo signals. I opened 10 songs in the demo, and only 1 sounded like it does in windows media player. no one cares as much about stereo as I do? try the whole world that listens to music. MONO SOUNDS BAD, especially on headphones, which EVERYONE uses these days for easy listening. worst thing is about your app, is that it requires extensive graphics know how, which most audio guys dont have.

[Photosounder]

The resizing thing is a bug I've never heard of before, mostly not on Windows. So you were complaining about mono? Here's the thing, no one uses this program to process entire songs, it's not a media player, they use it to do something specific (as in this video) to chunks of sound, and if they want to do it in stereo they do it to each channel. You have a point about the graphics know how, that's why this program is addressed mostly to the audio guys who master Photoshop. My next programs wont.

[seebee]

Have you considered contacting Harmonix about using this in their games for songs that they don't have the original tracks to? Though I know nearly nothing about the subject, this seems like the ideal use.

[bodog0]

fuck you

[Photosounder]

lol?

[giaspamming]

Looks a great program. I downloaded the demo version but it didnt work for me. Is there any known issues?

[Photosounder]

Can you email the support (email is on the front page of the Photosounder site) and explain what's wrong please? Thank you :)

[TomMinderson]

Man, that's a lot of hand editing. Carple Tunnel ticket. Maybe just re-play it on a synth using a wave-to-midi converter.

[Photosounder]

You try that and tell me how it goes ;-). As for the carple tunnel comment, playing Call of Duty 4 is more hand intensive than that.

[McKack]

Wow, I've always wished for a program like this since I work a lot with graphics and been thinking "why can't I just 'paint' sound?"

Gonna try it out.

[chartrage61]

(i from in french and i don't understand english) what the name of music plizz!!!!  i need man pliizz

[Photosounder]

mdr, c'est Funky Worm des Ohio Players.

[StackCityEntOfficial]

woulda been good with commentary