Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

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Re: Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

Post by markgreen1 » Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:58 pm

How would it be able to be automated?

It would be worth a shot to see and maybe trying millisecond calculation adjustments of where it cuts to see at least how smooth it could be.

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Re: Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

Post by steve » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:05 pm

markgreen1 wrote:
Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:58 pm
How would it be able to be automated?
IF the audio switches cleanly from one mic to the other mic at precisely constant intervals, then we could:
1. Make a duplicate copy of the track
2. Modulate the first track with a square wave that has precisely the same interval as the "switching" to mute alternate sections.
3. Modulate the second track with a square wave that is 180 degrees out of phase with the first, to give us the other mic.
4. Use "Truncate Silence" effect to remove the silences.

Steps 2 and 3 would be done with a Nyquist script (which we would need to write).
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Re: Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

Post by markgreen1 » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:31 pm

Should I send you the audio track to try it?

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Re: Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

Post by Trebor » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:58 pm

steve wrote:
Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:05 pm
...2. Modulate the first track with a square wave that has precisely the same interval as the "switching" to mute alternate sections.
3. Modulate the second track with a square wave that is 180 degrees out of phase with the first, to give us the ...

Steps 2 and 3 would be done with a Nyquist script (which we would need to write).
Three solutions to alternately chop at equal-intervals are covered in this thread ... viewtopic.php?p=233255#p233255

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Re: Import RAW Audio Showing Combined File, Trying To Get Isolated Track

Post by markgreen1 » Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:29 am

Tried a few times coming back to this to make sense of it but I think I'm a bit out of my depth in trying those solutions myself..

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