i go bananas wrote:
yeah, separating individual instruments / voices from a mix does seem like a 'just over the horizon' application. I'd love to be able to have a stereo microphone in the room i'm in now, and separate the sound of the rain, the wind, the TV in the background, my typing at this keyboard....
I saw a article and video (from slashdot iirc) like one or two years ago of a VST plugin for Cubase or Protools that did that. The guy recorded an acoustic guitar, and was able to separate the note in a chord and build a new one instead, and even change the tonality of the whole piece.
Unfortunatly, I'm completly unable to find any reference of this thing. Maybe it was vaporware, maybe it was a april fool.