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Also the lines that make up a horn note are less smooth and regular, however this in turn is an advantage, it makes the result more forgiving to irregularities.īecause of these characteristics, it is recommended to change a few parameters in the file config.txt. Identifying the base frequency can be more tricky, one reason being that the base frequency can be pretty low in pitch, giving it a lower graphical resolution to work with.

Horns, such as in this video, offer a different kind of challenge. Further work can be done to clean up/fix the image further, included using external programs such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Make sure the lossless mode is turned on for best results.Īt this point the result might not be fully satisfactory, but this is most of the job done. We want the opposite, which we obtain by pressing the Mask Invert button. This gives you an image and sound practically devoid of the removed instrument. This slows down the mouse cursor 32 times by default as to give you more precision. Also you'll most likely want to hold the H key during the erasure. The 'Tool intensity' should be set to 100%, the 'Spray width' anywhere between 10 and 20 pixels. Using the smart erase tool (represented by a road roller icon), the harmonics modifier that reproduces the smart erase tool's action on every harmonic, and the magnet modifier to snap to the curves we can now erase the synth by spraying over it from left to right. The synth line is also quite strong compared to the rest of the instruments, meaning we can safely use the magnet modifier so that the cursor will effortlessly snap to the synth's curves. In this example there are no chords, and the base frequency is easily seen. It is best to try what seems like the lowest possibility first in order to avoid confusing the first harmonic (the second line from the bottom) with the base frequency (the first line), but in the case of a chord, it is best to try to erase the higher notes first. This is fairly straightforward, however things can sometimes be a bit confusing. To help you find that base frequency, you can, using any brush tool and the harmonics modifier (the button with four vertically stacked dots), hover over the image to see an overlay of the first few harmonics and with your mouse cursor try to match the cross hair overlay with the lines on the screen. It might not always be easily seen, and sometimes it's entirely absent. It is crucial to be able to identify the position of the base frequency, which is the lowest of those lines. This synthesiser is harmonic, which means it is composed of vertically stacked parallel lines, separated by constant vertical distances.

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In this video we see how to extract a continuous synth line graphically using those new tools.