Celemony's software is more dedicated to facilitating 'autotune'-esque control via isolation, but both of these products spell a bright future for audio production (not just for DJs). Video is no longer available: On top of going over some pretty solid basics of sound and audio - such as phase cancellation, which the above workarounds use more simplistically to do something similarly to, though with less control than, SpectraLayers - this video is pretty easy to get excited about. Other offerings such as Sony's SpectraLayers basically puts the power of Photoshop's toolset to a multi-layerable spectrogram view of a mixed-down track, except instead of visually manipulating something visual, SpectraLayers allows for visually managing the manipulation of something auditory: As both a commenter and the article's writer (Managing Editor David Shapton) over at RedShark mentioned in the comments of the original post, Melodyne isn't the first (or only, at least) piece of software to break mixes down in previously difficult-to-achieve ways. Video is no longer available: The phrase 'blobs' is certainly not in the traditional lexicon of audio - nor sound at large, for that matter - but in a strongly unique interface such as this, fresh terminology must follow. This news comes to us from RedShark, including the following demonstration/tutorial: That said, Celemony's Melodyne makes this process visually intuitive - and rather powerfully automated - in preparation for further creative manipulation down the line, because it's specifically engineered to do so. In the specific case of stripping the vocals off a mixed down track to create an instrumental (or the opposite, discarding everything but the vocals themselves), there are several workarounds and methods for doing so. Meanwhile, Sony is likewise doing the 'impossible' with its impressive frequency editor/clean-up tool SpectraLayers. A company called Celemony and their audio editing platform Melodyne is now making it incredibly fast, easy, and intuitive to do just that - and much more, like autotuning those isolated vocals for remixing. I grew up with Sound Forge back when it was still owned by Sonic Foundry, and quickly came to understand how impractical it can be to isolate a clean vocal track from, say, a CD rip. Anyone who's ever learned the basics of sound manipulation in a waveform editor, such as Audacity, knows how difficult it is to separate sounds from a mixed-down recording.

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