Is it possible to extract tracks from a WAV

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chuckerlaw

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Hi,
I've just started to use N-Track and this is probably a really stupid question but I am a newbie so I guess I've an excuse...
I'm wondering, can I take, for example, a Beatles WAV file and "decompile" it so that I get a bass, guitar, drum and vocal track i.e. as 4 individual tracks?
Is there any software application that would let me do it?
Thanks in advance,
Chucky
 
Throw a rock into a pond.... now try to take out just one ripple.

No way, guy.
 
Chuckerlaw

Way back a zillion years ago, when I was 14, I walked into a music store and I was in awe of the 4 track recorder, and I asked the same question.... "Can you seperate the tracks from songs".......

So, I can relate...

Once they are mixed down, you can't seperate them...

Essentially, it's like putting a bunch of ingredients into a blender and then when your done "blending", trying to take them out seperately...

You would need the original session tapes in order to gain access to the original seperate tracks..

Joe
 
Thanks for the feedback, guys.
Sorry to labour the point but how do Karaoke machines work? Or when Fat Boy Slim steals an old R & B bass line how does he do it? Do these guys have access to the original masters?
 
Usually they have access to the original tapes.... Alot of the time, someone like fatboy slim will sample someone from the same label that he is on, which keeps the legalities a bit simpler...

Some times, the person will redo it... For instance... Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice Baby", used the bass riff from Queen's "Under pressure", but Vanilla's version was a sequenced bass from a keyboard..

Same riff, new performance...



Karaoke... Simple... there are thousands of CD's you can buy with instrument mixes of poular songs... these cd's are played in the Karaoke Machine, and a singer sings along with them..

And, no the background aren't the original mixes.... Studio musicans redo the song, and usually, it turns out pretty darn close to the original...

Joe
 
I see. Thanks for all the information.
Whatever happened to Vanilla Ice...?
 
Vanilla is living about 5 miles from where I'm sitting now in a little suburb of Fort Lauderdale called Davie. He made the news a few months ago for having an argument with his wife and beating her in public on the side of the freeway. (That's how I found out where he lives.)

TV psychic Miss Cleo lives over there, too. And it's where the golf course that they filmed "Caddy Shack" is located.
 
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