> > A musician can be trained to mentally separate the parts of an > > orchestra; why could not a machine do the same ? > > @daemian There isn't just a big leap from machine to musician but also: You can focus on (not seperate) certain instruments to quasi-isolate the important part. Thats just a question of pratice. schoappied asked for a program to "switch off" certain instruments which i doubt even a conductor is able to do inside his brain. And when i said it's impossible, i thought of the possibilities that are currently available. You could be right: This hasn't to be impossible at all but imho under some strong assumptions: - we are able to collect and compute all the necessary information with our senses and brain to perform this "switch off" ( i doubt that ) - we would learn what these information are - we could teach a machine to do that Thus, i think it would need a lot more, especially imagination :) @schoappied I forgot to ask: What do you want to do with the isolated tracks anyway? Maybe there's another work-around. -- Best regards, Sebastian. Web: linuxaudioblog.sternenhejim.de On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 19:30 +1100, simon wise wrote: > On 23 Feb 2008, at 10:48 AM, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: > > (I'm not implying it would be trivial, though ;-) > > it's a big leap from machine to musician! > > It is hard enough to get a machine to be a good instrument for a > musician to play, let alone to analyse a sound as a musician would. > Still, what a machine does now would have been sci-fi to most people > just 20 years ago. > > > simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
