[LAU] tool to seperate elements of a song

[Sebastian Tschöpel]

> > A musician can be trained to mentally separate the parts of an  
> > orchestra; why could not a machine do the same ?
> >

@daemian

There isn't just a big leap from machine to musician but also: You can
focus on (not seperate) certain instruments to quasi-isolate the
important part. Thats just a question of pratice. schoappied asked for a
program to "switch off" certain instruments which i doubt even a
conductor is able to do inside his brain.

And when i said it's impossible, i thought of the possibilities that are
currently available. You could be right: This hasn't to be impossible at
all but imho under some strong assumptions:

- we are able to collect and compute all the necessary information with
our senses and brain to perform this "switch off" ( i doubt that )
- we would learn what these information are
- we could teach a machine to do that

Thus, i think it would need a lot more, especially imagination :)

@schoappied

I forgot to ask: What do you want to do with the isolated tracks anyway?
Maybe there's another work-around.

-- 
Best regards,
Sebastian.

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On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 19:30 +1100, simon wise wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:





> > (I'm not implying it would be trivial, though ;-)
> 
> it's a big leap from machine to musician!
> 



> It is hard enough to get a machine to be a good instrument for a  
> musician to play, let alone to analyse a sound as a musician would.  
> Still, what a machine does now would have been sci-fi to most people  
> just 20 years ago.
> 
> 
> simon
> 
> 
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