Strange separation

I downloaded the trial and watched some videos, then tried on some songs. It put the electric bass on the guitar layer and the flute is mixed in. I tried cuttin a short secting where the flute was loud and putting on the’ other’ where most of the flute is, but it didn’t leave the guitar layer . There was some flute on the otherwise empty sax track so I drew a rectangle around to cut and it says the layer isn’t selected. Tried again but same,

So I was watching more videos and it’s kind of weird because like one would be for V11 and say what is new and then another for 10 and what was new over 9m and so on, as things changed, but nothing about the very basics of the tools for someone who had used no version. 1st I tried a few things standalone and then saw I could use as an extension and tried some of the video things such as separating crowd noise and other things on a couple of different project.
After watching 7 videos and how well the results were, I’m not doing anywhere as well. I have been trying my live band. In the crowd noise was drums and flute and I tried moving some frequencies to less there. then it took almost 30 minutes to separate the rest and the bass layer is mostly almost empty with the electric bass on the guitar track. some of the sax separated well while other times it is on the guitar track. Vibes are pretty well on piano track. A lot of the drums are missing, dropping out, separated on on the crowd layer.

Make sure you click on the Layer you want to work on. The layer will appear white.

Good to know: If you use the Transfer Tool (one of the tiles on the right) to get rid of unwanted signal, you must first create an extra layer (right-click in the field below the layers) and select: New Layer. This can be the layer you want to transfer to…

This way you can work non-destructively…

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Amazed by the possiblities of this.


Watching a more basic video of pro6, and getting better understanding. I figured some things myself, like using shift and alt to add or remove from wand tool selection. And he says in next version you will be able to select similar instead of individually selecting a whole lot. So in pro 11, I figured that if I go to select similar it should work thus. I found a bright spot that is flute and when I click on the adjacent ones they are the same pitch and sound the same but when I try selecting a bunch or instead only one and then select similar no more are chosen, so I wonder why not as the view and sound seem the same.

If you select a bunch and then use the similar function it will try to find a similar bunch, not similar ’spots’. It will look for the whole bunch, not the individual ’spots’.

That is, different ’spots’ that are located at similar distances from each other and with similar frequencies, volumes etc.
It’s not very likely that SL will find identic clusters or bunches with exactly the same properties.

Try instead to select one ’spot’, then use the select similar function to find similar spots, then process those, or move to another layer (shift-x) or whatever you want to do with them.

Then do it again and again for every remaining flute ’spot’, systematically.
After awhile you will have gathered all of the flute ’spots’ on their own layer.

Tip: play with the FFT size up in the right corner to change ’sharpness’ of the spectrogram to select more exactly.

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So I did try only one spot, sounds like and same visual frequency as the bright ones following and no similar found.

Try different settings in the ”select similar” window. Also make sure the target layer is the active one (click it in the layers list to the right).

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