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@saveyourmix, Thanks for the clarification.
I did find your samples to be both interesting and impressive. In fact we originally left your first links in place, but after the links were repeated in your next two posts it tipped over the line. I'm sure that you understand that as this is a very active and prominent forum, we have a constant battle against spam and the only way for us to prevent this forum from becoming overrun with spam is to take a very firm line on this issue.
This has become "off-topic", so I'll send you a PM (click on "New Messages" near the top of the page to access your mail).

Saveyourmix, the line between posting links on the Forum that are useful to users and "commercial advertising" isn't always clear cut. Forum Staff and Crew are trusted to post links to other software (including commercial/closed source) wherever necessary, though links to free, open source programs are always preferred. New users who post a link to commercial software without a detailed explanation of why they are doing so are likely to have the link removed (and also be banned depending on the circumstances). It's a natural reaction to abuse by spammers.

Our main web site http://audacityteam.org/ doesn't currently accept advertising direct from advertisers. We do run Google Ads on all except the front page. If and when you have a legitimate, marketable app or algorithm it would be perfectly appropriate for you to join Google adwords. That would almost certainly mean that if you chose appropriate keywords you would appear somewhere in our rotating Google advertisements.

Similarly on the Wiki Vocal Removal page that Trebor mentions, we already list a few commercial applications for removal/isolation. I don't know of anything comparable to those Windows apps that is available for Mac/Linux, so it would be nice to list a new recommendable app for those platforms. Therefore if someone from Team or a known, respected user posted a link on that page to new relevant software, that would be fine in principle.

Obviously if yours is a closed source algorithm you don't want to share, you are not likely to get direct help from the Audacity developers. Were you looking to use Audacity code for an application into which you could place your algorithm? Or for advice on building it into a VST or other format plug-in? If so, please send me a PM.

If you want to discuss your algorithm here in general terms, or ask questions about what features might be nice in an interface, maybe you would get some interest here. If there is such a dialogue going on here and Forum Staff believe what you have is worth recommending on the Wiki page, then it would quite likely appear on that page.




Gale

I would like an app, no matter how crude, to remove lead guitar parts for the creation of backing tracks to play along with.
Can anyone help?

jimhab wrote:I would like an app, no matter how crude, to remove lead guitar parts for the creation of backing tracks to play along with.
Can anyone help?

No. You have a track that has been mixed together like using milk and egg and tomato sauce for an omelette, not three discrete layers that are stuck to each other and can be pulled apart.

You can read http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ation.html for some ideas.


Gale