Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <robarrie2003@y...> wrote:
> Thanks Ed, now why can't they make it that easy in the manuals. I 
> guess for a few dollars more the other programs seem to be a better 
> choice in the long run. You know what would be awsome is to have a 
> program that cuts out drums from real music in some time of format, 
> the guy at the music store said that he never heard of one, and 
cd's 
> and such are 2 tracks and would be impossible to pick apart 
> instruments. I'm supprised with all the technology theres nothing 
> like that. 

Short of going back to the multitrack masters, not much can be done, 
though I think that modern, expensive digital processing has been 
able to do wonders isolating instruments on older recordings. Of 
course, that's one of MIDI's advantages, shutting off the channel 10. 
But there are companies that offer CDs without drums, and other 
instruments, for practice. The Music Minus One series was out in the 
1960s and is still around (I used it when I played trombone). I 
forget the name of another company that puts out bass loops and such 
for drummers to accompany; it's mentioned--by me, I think--somewhere 
in the archives. Another--granted, longshot--option, involves the 
early stereo music that emerged at the beginning of the British 
Invasion (including the Beatles). These fledging two channel 
recordings often panned the drums completely to one side. If you run 
one of those recordings through the DTXpress, muting the drum track, 
you can be Ringo, Charlie, or god knows who else.