Like the healing brush in Photoshop - for music! Very cool.

only one problem. The squeaking of the guitar is a desired sound to me...

the squeaking of the guitar strings is nothing but sloppy, lazy playing...
lift your damn fingers off the fretboard- this sound is like nails on a blackboard

>> ^netean:
the squeaking of the guitar strings is nothing but sloppy, lazy playing...
lift your damn fingers off the fretboard- this sound is like nails on a blackboard

In classical guitar, the sound may be undesired but something like acoustic rock, or delta blues, it is a very common sound. I think Robert Johnson would agree...but what does he know?

Pretty cool tech indeed, but also shows that it needs a talented user to use it well, I'm sure lots of people with poor knowledge go and heal stuff you'd want to keep, and leave those residual reverbs and the like to confuse people on the playback.

Nice demo

that would be my comment, it totally depends on the aesthetics of your genre.
for me, being a keyboard player, when i end up programming/sequencing guitar parts i sometimes add squeeks and other "undesireable" guitar noises to create an illusion of a living breathing guitar (and guitarplayer)

I hear a high-pitch buzz... like a wookie singing softly... at 2:19-2:20, as if the software simply pasted-in a series of the same clip repeated, grabbed from the surrounding file.

... upvoted because I like spectrograms.

ya, i still hear that residual soft drone that replaces the squeek... surely isn't perfect.

seems pritty easy to use to me, i do alot of photoshop work its intresting translating music into a image and then fixing it.


maby you could save the image of a song as a strip print it of stick it on a wall then people could photograph it and then exstract the song from it.

In the future you could do it in real time with a mobile phone by simply taking a photograph of one of the music images. Then your phone decodes it and plays back to you a song or voice recording.
this would save you having to have an active server sending people files over blue tooth. (idea coppy right westy)

>> ^westy:
seems pritty easy to use to me, i do alot of photoshop work its intresting translating music into a image and then fixing it.
maby you could save the image of a song as a strip print it of stick it on a wall then people could photograph it and then exstract the song from it.
In the future you could do it in real time with a mobile phone by simply taking a photograph of one of the music images. Then your phone decodes it and plays back to you a song or voice recording.
this would save you having to have an active server sending people files over blue tooth. (idea coppy right westy)


i've done something similar in an art project. we had cameras watching various things, one was looking at a road intersection (for rythm) one was looking at... the audience maybe? and one was looking at a dancer (the melody). and the images was translated to sound.
so the dancer would improvise to what she heard, and the music would follow her as well.

there's also synthesizers like Cameleon 5000 that has an algorithm to extract the "sound" out of images. fun stuff with very unpredictable results

upvote for demonstrating very very clearly the parallel between creating visuals and creating sound.

and personally i would just fade those down a bit instead of total repair. i like squeaks (they are notes, they are rhythm, they are evidence of human existence) but damn, those particular ones were loud and horrible.

> its intresting translating music into a image and then fixing it.

The graphical representation may make things visual for us optically fixated mammals, but this music is not being converted to or stored as an image, nor graphically processed. Your analogy is intuitive and pretty safe though if you ask me.

I'm totally in the fade down camp. But still, very impressive work.

>> ^bamdrew:
I hear a high-pitch buzz... like a wookie singing softly... at 2:19-2:20, as if the software simply pasted-in a series of the same clip repeated, grabbed from the surrounding file.


That's not a software glitch, that's actually the session Wookie on backup. You don't want to loose him.

It's funny how a simple edit with sophisticated software can change the mood of a guitar piece from imperfect sincerity into schlocky car insurance commercial.

Almost like 2 different songs, I kind of liked the original more.

wow, my first top sift today i removed alot of camera noise from some dialogue with this program. it sounded like a fan or something, a constant steady note, so no problem at all to et rid of. in this program it showed up as a long solid line at the bottom of the spectrum.
but i didnt use the spectrail repair process like in the video above, but the more normal "get a noise print and then remove that noise print from the entire take" process. this program has a "smoothing" algorithm that gets rid of alot of the artifact that the noise print method can create, for example it can give voices a bell-like quality that it didnt have before etc...
for people who have done alot of noise reduction work and voice editing and similar, the spectral repair above can be a more successful operation than a normal "declicker".