Background Noise and 'Randomizer Synth Plugin?'

[djglenn]

Got 2 random questions for ya:

1. A guy sent me a copy of a couple aborigine girls singing some song. They were filming a documentary. The singing itself is usable, but there's a lot of background noise. I've tried removing it with various noise reduction software or tried lifting the vocals with no success. The background noise is a bunch of children chattering away. I'm guessing it was recorded in an auditorium or school gym or something, so there's a good amount of reverb with the chattering kids, but not so much with the singing girls.

Anyone have any idea of what I might be able to do to try to reduce the background noise?


2. Ok, this one is extremely random..... Is there some sort of software that can randomize the settings of a virtual synth? I thought something like this would be extremely useful. Rather than randomly mouse clicking dials to try to get an interesting sound out of a synth, you can just hit one button on another program and magically come up with a new sound in 'whatever' synth. Most of the time it would probably be random garbage, but hit the button enough times and you're bound to come up with something great. I'm not sure why every synth doesn't have this feature built-in. Camel Audio has "Camel Space" (FX unit) that can do this. It's really handy.

[sven hauck]

If the noise is random as in not consistent, like a hum, you can pretty much forget about removing it. Otherwise you could sample the noise with a noise removal plug in and effectively subtract it out of the source material.

About the randomizer, yes, that is a great feature. I like it because you can fly through settings. Only some of the stuff is usable but this would make for a cool plugin wrapper indeed.

[admin]

Glenn,

Ya for noise reduction to work you pretty much need a steady signal for it to subtract against. I did see a demo of Wavelab 6 and the spectrograph display where you could find problem areas easily for this type of thing. But I from the description of the sample yuo've got sounds like it would be a tough job.

To be honest I'm not a big fan of the random stuff as I normally have an idea of what I want. You probably could write something to do it though that would use midi learn function on all the parameters to randomize them.