Mashing Tracks
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- kbags
If I was to create my own little mash-up music experiment, what software would I use to isolate individual tracks?
JazX, I'm looking at you brotherman.
- ********0
ok so you are lookin' to do what exactly? Rip apart tracks and resequence them.
Alright, I'm guessing you want to let's say take some drum solo from a well-known jazz musician and reset the tempo and use that as one track. Then you take a vocal solo sample and also set it to the same tempo (BPM), you could then mix it together. Products that enable you to do tempo and pitch shifting are the rage today. I firmly stand by Abelton Live! as one of the best. However, learning even Acid from Sony is pretty good. For Mac, go with Garageband or Logic. I believe they have the same technology.
- ********0
windows sound recorder
- kbags0
Will Ableton let you isolate an entire track off a studio album?
I'm not sure if I'm using the proper vernacular here...basically, can I lift vocals off one song and lift percussion off another? Not just an individual solo...but the entire track without the rest of the mix?
Put another way, if I wanted to take the bassline out of, I dunno, a beachboys (ha!) song but without vocals or other instruments, is that possible?
- ********0
That's a common question and there really isn't an answer to it. There are applications out there that allow you to remove tracks based upon their frequencies and other characterisitics and properties, but from what I hear it's tricky. Check http://www.computermusic.co.uk - they have an article on this, the name of the program escapes me. Once, you remove what you don't want, obviously import and resequence. Abelton Live! is crazy good!
- r_gaberz0
nah... you can just use low or high cut filters and try to blend certain things out... but I think that's about it.
- ********0
Hey with that being said, why not just convert the song to MIDI or find the MIDI (.mid) file for that song. Bring it into a variety of different software apps, such as Reason, etc., that allow you to sequence out the individual tracks and you can replace the instrumentation on it. Meaning I can take a Queen's song guitar and make it be played with a synthesizer. Get me? And it allows you to change the tempo and octave to boot.
- kbags0
That's the answer to my question, and I actually love the MIDI idea, JazX.
Thanks guys!!!
PS- Ableton Live is sweet, I gotta get it!
- ********0
BTW, once you bring in a MIDI file and the sequencer seperate the native tracks, you can delete the tracks you don't want and replace. Bingo, you can take like three people's songs using their MIDI and resequence as you're own. In other words, Hip-Hop music.
- ********0
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/r… look here for your needs
- r_gaberz0
yep
much ♥ for Ableton Live
really the only app that that I got all excited about since.... hm
- kbags0
Great website, tons of info there...THX!!!
- kbags0
Since...Reason?
I love this shit! Makes work fun!!!
- ********0
Reason and Ableton are relentlessly infinite.
- kbags0
Totally. I think that's the best starting point for someone looking beyond garageband...which is nice in and of itself, but kinda limited. And
I'm not serious enough to shell out for Logic quite yet...