This is helpful.
Anyone who has used Photoshop knows that the brush requires practice to become intuitive. After a while you can ‘guess’ how it’s going to work even though it does most of the work on its own.
Thanks.
—JC
suntower:
Thanks. I watched that video and I got slightly confused because there did not seem to be any ‘surgical instructions’. The guy whips through the selection process in an almost careless way. I figured it was just a crappy tutorial. But what you’re saying is that this is just how ISSE works. Maybe it’s my ‘engineering’ mind, but that strikes me as very counter-intuitive.
I’ll experiment.
Best.
—JC
There is very little information about ISSE available, but as a starting point, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKAX5pNPQp8&list=RDRd3prIkO5bg&index=3 . The big difference with ISSE (and other tools that base on AI and/or ML, like some experiments with TensorFlow) in comparison to our standard tools like RX, WL or SLP is the fact that they don’t need surgical instructions from the user. When defining what you want to extract, just roughly mark the corresponding areas in both the time and the pitch domain in the spectrogram and see what happens.
One might say “hell, how can this be useful if I cannot clearly predict what will happen to my audio?!”. Good point, but I don’t care if it just works. Included with the ISSE download comes a speech file with a ringing cell phone. The ringtone covers two different frequencies that play quickly after each other, and they both show some harmonics. Try to remove this with RX, you will probably have no success. With ISSE, you end up with two files (speech and cell phone) that sound as if they were never mixed together
1.) Know and setup the tool hotkeys to be quick for you
essentially just ride those size and intensity controls with your left hand while you work with your right.
There’s certain modifiers like alt is deselection, so thinking about using alt-deselecting to carve out more exact results after using the square selection tool or something.
like photoshop, clicking selection or eraser/brush tool on a spot, holding shift, and then clicking in another spot will create a straight line. you can quickly reduce a click with this method