Audionamix offer something different with their Unmixing Station. They will isolate and separate a recording into its component stems.....
Pretty cool - kind of like being able to take the egg out of a cake after it's cooked!
I can see many possibilities from this, but it's not just a plugin - you send your files to them, and they'll separate the stems and send them back to you.
You can register to download a demo version of their software, but this version hasn't any parameters to adjust, (and source file length is limited to 2 minutes). I've tried it out, and the results were, honestly, pretty awful, but the odds of the demo software parameters being ideal for my random source material are pretty slim. There's examples of their work on their website that show what it's fully capable of.
I downloaded the demo and tried demixing a couple of things and I find it's particularly useful to use on (short) samples which have many layers already, or elements of songs which you sample (and are naturally short). Then you can just loop or rework those small sections into the track, and (try to) create something more original. I find it helpful as a starting point, rather than trying to effect the original sound through filtering etc.
ReplyDeleteQuality isn't always great but I still think it's a fun program to use, even if just to practice your ear skills and then see how the program demixes, lol