ozzy

One of the guys here @ work wants to be able to edit music tracks on his PC i.e. remove drums, guitars, etc.. He says he can do it with MIDI files, but wanted to know if you can do the same thing with MP3?

I understand the basic theory of multi-track recording, but is MIDI the only format that keeps them seperate? Could you convert MP3 to MIDI, edit the music, then convert back to MP3 to do this?

Thanks,
Stefan

12LEE

No.

MP3 is audio. MIDI is data telling instruments to play certain notes at certain times. You can't "play" a MIDI file per se without a MIDI instrument, sound card, etc., and it will sound different based upon the instrument(s) that its being played on.

Is your friend getting into the remix side of things and looking to sample loops of existing tracks?

Lee.

DJ Dunk

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In my experience . . . MP3 is just a stereo (or mono) recording, not a multitrack piece of music.

Unless the bits you want to remove are in either of the left or right channels then it would be difficult to remove them. The only way to do it would be using filters to remove certain frequencies from the track, which will lead to losing parts of the track that you may want to keep. It's not an exact science.

I'm no expert, but do create my own tracks on my PC using multi-track sample tracking software.

HTH

ozzy

Thanks for the info guys.

Let's say he's a more 'mature' gentleman, so can't picture him as a remixer or DJ

He's not in until later, so I'll ask him exactly what he wants to do.

Stefan

12LEE

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