On 23 Feb 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
A musician can be trained to mentally separate the
parts of an
orchestra; why could not a machine do the same ?
(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