"Upmixing" is new AI driven technology that allows single track original recordings to be reprocessed into multi-track, heretofore considered impossible.
But AI can do it.
I still remember the first time I plugged a Commodore Vic 20 into our living room TV 40 years ago and started typing. After about an hour, I said out loud to my family "this changes everything"...
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Abbey Road Studios programmer invents AI driven process:
The challenge dropped him at the leading edge of a field known as upmixing, in which software and audio engineers work together to transform old recordings in ways that were once unthinkable. Using machine learning, engineers have made inroads into "demixing" the voices and instruments on recordings into completely separate component tracks, often known as stems. Isolating the components of songs is a surprisingly hard problem-more like unswirling paint than using a pair of scissors.
But once engineers have stems, they can take the isolated tracks and "upmix" them into something new and perhaps improved. They might enhance a muffled drum track on an old recording, produce an a capella version of a song, or do the opposite and remove a song's vocals so it can be used as background in a TV show or movie.
I can't wait for some new remasters of Szell recordings! Sign me up!
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Topic - get ready for tens of thousands of new remaster releases - LtMandella 10:40:11 03/28/21 (22)
- RE: get ready for tens of thousands of new remaster releases - Jeffrey Lee 21:05:47 04/2/21 (0)
- RE: get ready for tens of thousands of new remaster releases - JURB 20:32:15 03/29/21 (0)
- RE: get ready for tens of thousands of new remaster releases - ChesshireCat 20:12:02 03/29/21 (1)
- RE: get ready for tens of thousands of new remaster releases - LtMandella 20:25:00 03/29/21 (0)
- Been waiting over 50 years for an upmix of... - musetap 16:23:30 03/28/21 (2)
- half-speed mastered AND 45 rpm pressings! - mhardy6647 17:37:37 03/30/21 (0)
- RE: Been waiting over 50 years for an upmix of... - LtMandella 16:28:14 03/28/21 (0)
- Can't wait for Kind of Blue. - geoffkait 12:04:50 03/28/21 (2)
- RE: Can't wait for Kind of Blue. - ChesshireCat 20:13:42 03/29/21 (0)
- Or "Bohemian Rhapsody" !!! (nt - peppy m. 14:28:36 03/28/21 (0)
- Yes! I'm on board! - Chris from Lafayette 11:46:22 03/28/21 (2)
- RE: Yes! I'm on board! - fantja 23:41:38 03/28/21 (1)
- Yes - I love that "retro" JBL styling - Chris from Lafayette 01:54:22 03/29/21 (0)
- I Think I'll Pass........... - Todd Krieger 11:34:11 03/28/21 (7)
- 1 out of 10? - b.l.zeebub 14:01:19 03/28/21 (1)
- RE: 1 out of 10? - Todd Krieger 01:25:43 03/29/21 (0)
- "Too many 'enhancements' to the mix end up undermining the music......" - Chris from Lafayette 11:49:43 03/28/21 (4)
- I'll pass until it's proven to be better than what I already have, thank you and let us know - Story 13:31:18 03/28/21 (2)
- RE: I'll pass until it's proven to be better than what I already have, thank you and let us know - ChesshireCat 20:15:11 03/29/21 (0)
- "It will be more fodder for places like this one" - Indeed! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:15:20 03/28/21 (0)
- It's Your Money..... [-; - Todd Krieger 12:01:37 03/28/21 (0)
- One has to wonder ... - Mike K 11:04:42 03/28/21 (0)