Tutorial - Instrument Isolation (Funky Worm)

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This video shows how previous video "Instrument Isolation (Funky Worm)" was made and how you can reproduce it.

Step by step explanations here : http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/04/tutorial-instrument-isolation-funky.html

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Music

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• photosounder
• tutorial
• sound
• substraction
• extraction
• spectrogram
• funky
• worm
• ohio
• players
• funk
• sampling
• instrumental
• experiment

[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.

[ZmajSnoshaj]

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

[Photosounder]

Yes

[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?

[boilerheadz]

what are you doing ..???

[uduluthiers]

brilliant!

[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

[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.