[LAU] tool to seperate elements of a song

[Chris Cannam]

On 21/02/2008, David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il> wrote:
> Probably not possible, but Eleveyta has a vst plugin. Designed for voice
> elimination and such but has a two dimensional GUI. One can "see" what is
> playing at any time, select this "region" and either try to extract or mute
> it. I have not tried it.

It is possible to extract sources from a stereo mix that was created
using artificial panning in the studio to position individually
recorded sources in a stereo field.  This paper describes one very
effective technique:

  http://www.audioresearchgroup.com/papers/18.pdf

I'm not aware of any Linux software to do it though (and I haven't
tried the plugin you describe either).


Chris