Manipulating music through Photosounder, amazing…
“Instrument Isolation (Funky Worm)
This is how I isolated the main instrument from Ohio Players’ Funky Worm using Photosounder and Photoshop, as show in this video. I first loaded the original sound’s image into Photoshop and using the clone tool I erased the lines matching to the instrument I wanted to isolate. That new image, once loaded in Photosounder in lossless mode using the original sound, gave me this drums and vocals-only version :
Back in Photoshop, I pasted the new image on top of the original one, switched to 16-bit mode for precision, corrected the gamma for both of them so they match to 1:1. However beware, Photoshop’s Levels makes dark pixels darker than they should be when you increase the gamma, which has disastrous effects on pictures as dark as what we have here. Which is why it’s best to invert the pictures so that their background turns to white before doing such corrections. Once inverted, you need a value of 2.0 in Levels’ gamma, on both layers, then choose the Difference blending mode, flatten the image, invert again, apply a gamma of 0.5. We now only have the bits we previously erased, and we can see what has to be done. With the example I chose I had entire missing areas matching to where the snare drums used to be, burying the overtones of the instrument of interest into noise, making them disappear. The fact that I used an MP3 as a basis only made matters worse. I also had things that didn’t belong, mainly pieces of voice I mistook as belonging to my instrument. The rest of the work consisted in cleaning and fixing the image, using my best Photoshopping skills. 
Note that when you’re done, you might want to double-pass the processing to obtain a result more faithful to the actual image you obtained. To do that, normally load the image in lossless mode in Photosounder with the original sound as a basis, save the resulting sound, then open the very same sound file again, reopen the image, and save the sound.
Isolated main instrument
Edit : In this file you will find the original sample used as well as the two images needed to recreate the results shown above, along with detailed instructions on how to do that using the Photosounder Demo or the full version of Photosounder.”
courtesy of The PhotoSounder.com Blog
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has anyone been able to get this working? the instructions are vague and i dont think its as all purpose and useful as they make it out to be.
in the tutorial the author is talking about adjusting the gamma in ps… im somewhat familiar with ps but i have no idea what he means by that and i couldnt find anything in a google search.
what i tried doing was importing the wav file in photosounder. i then saved the file as a bmp. opened the image in ps and used the clone tool to delete the part of the image/sound that i wanted to KEEP. i then opened the edited image over original sound file.
the result was the original track with a bunch of static added and a wavy scratch sound over the part of the image that i wanted to remove. thats no where near what i wanted.
imo, unless someone gives a detailed explanation on the instrument elimination process, the program is useless
culov : there’s a new better tutorial here http://photosounder.com/blog/2009/04/tutorial-instrument-isolation-funky.html
Damn it. Technology is crazy. It keeps pushing boundaries every time and giving us the chance to get around things.
This is going to help beat jackers remove peoples’ tags from their beats.
Shit. I copyright my beats besides tagging them so if anybody remove my tags and use my beats without my permission, I still got my copyrights protecting my beats.
Copyright of tracks is really limited in some respcts.. moses breaks its down nice in confessions of a record producer book.