Instrument Isolation (Funky Worm)
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Shows the result of instrument isolation done by hand using Photosounder and Photoshop.
The original sound (Ohio Players' Funky Worm) is first analysed in Photosounder, saved as an image, which is then loaded in Photoshop. Using the clone tool, the lines representing the main instrument that we want to isolate are removed. This cleaned image is then loaded in Photosounder, and using the original sound as a basis we get a version of the same sound containing only the drums and vocals.
The instrument that we want to isolate is obtained by making the difference between the original image and the cleaned image, and once tweaked a bit further this image is used for processing in Photosounder to obtain the final clean isolated instrument.
More details and full samples here : http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/03/...