Isolating instruments via visuals zomg

[Lephrenic]

http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/03/in ... -worm.html

More examples here: http://photosounder.com/examples.php

[nic]

wow thats excekkelent.

[a1studmuffin]

That's a pretty trivial example - it glosses over the fact that this technique wouldn't work for other more complex sounds.

[nic]

oh
:c

[A_SN]

That's a pretty trivial example - it glosses over the fact that this technique wouldn't work for other more complex sounds.

lol, no, trust me, it's anything but trivial. It does sound like a simple sound, but the fact that it has actually a myriad of ever increasingly closer and dimmer overtones that quickly get lost in the noise of drums make it actually quite a tough sound to extract. What would you consider a less trivial type of sound to extract?

[mrj]

dubstep?

[a1studmuffin]

That's a pretty trivial example - it glosses over the fact that this technique wouldn't work for other more complex sounds.

lol, no, trust me, it's anything but trivial. It does sound like a simple sound, but the fact that it has actually a myriad of ever increasingly closer and dimmer overtones that quickly get lost in the noise of drums make it actually quite a tough sound to extract. What would you consider a less trivial type of sound to extract?

I'm sure it would have taken whoever did it awhile to highlight every harmonic of the sound accurately, but it's still a very simple sound - basically just 7-8 overtones of varying volume levels of a simple sine wave, hence the simple frequency response of just a few parallel lines. I think a lot of brass instruments would have this kind of response so would be easy to extract... but consider something like a nice fuzzy distorted electric guitar sound... not so simple...

[tactik]

Interesting stuff.

Reminds me of the thing Aphex Twin did. In one of his tunes he put a sound that, when watched through spectral analysis... turned into an image of his head.