Subject:considering buying acid pro 4 but........

Posted by: kmsl

Date:9/13/2002 11:06:16 PM

i am considering buying acid pro 4 but dont know if it will separate the vocals from the music tracks of established music file for re-mixing. can anyone tell if it does and how the program does it? thank you, scott . kmsl@peoplepc.com

Subject:RE: considering buying acid pro 4 but........

Reply by: nlamartina

Date:9/13/2002 11:43:10 PM

Scott,

Please read the FAQ.

Acid is great for remixing, but it's not a karaoke machine. There are means to diminish vocals at the sacrifice of stereo separation and fidelity, but it's not worth the trouble. You won't find any program/plugin/hardware out there that can do what you're asking for, as the technology simply doesn't exist.

- Nick

Subject:RE: considering buying acid pro 4 but........

Reply by: skysurfer

Date:9/14/2002 2:13:15 AM

Hi Nick,

Never be too fast in saying something dont exist,
on consumer level (and in children software) not yet, but the hi-end world has is !

There are several programs that can extract totally separated vocal-lines or single instrument lines from stereo mixes, most of these stunning softs run on Silicon Graphics machines as seen (and heard) by myself already 7 !! years ago. (Dont know where the level of development is now, i didnt follow it but for sure it sill got better and perhaps one day finds its way into mainstream)

But why ?

For that schoolkids could steal even better from existing records than by sampling ?

(Perhaps its better not to demistify everything thats technologically possible)

Cheers

Sky

Subject:RE: considering buying acid pro 4 but........

Reply by: nlamartina

Date:9/14/2002 2:34:09 AM

I think it, you say it. =) Of course I was only speaking practically... cough.

- Nick