Roland R-Mix - Tired of those albums you just hate the mixing or mastering of?

[Jind]

One of the things we complain the most about here at the andy Sneap forums are the albums we simply hate the mixing or mastering of right? Well, Roland has come to the rescue (I'm being a little facetious, but possibly not that much when I really think about it). Meet R-Mix.

http://www.rolandconnect.com/product.php?p=r-mix

Welcome to an exciting new era of “visual” audio manipulation. R-MIX software — powered by Roland’s newly developed V-Remastering technology in conjunction with VariPhrase — lets you see the components of a stereo mix as color-coded clouds of energy and harmonic matter as the song plays! Select your desired components of the mix, and freely edit them — an impossible task in the past. You can change panning positions and levels to individual instruments within a stereo mix, for example, and add effects to each element as desired. You can even independently adjust the pitch and speed of the playback, realized with VariPhrase.

How does this power translate to you? You can use R-MIX to easily create “minus-one” type karaoke files from existing songs by lowering the level of a pre-recorded vocal or any other instrument you select within each mix. You can also create your own remixes and mash-ups by using two pairs of stereo tracks within R-MIX. As a skill-building tool, R-MIX can be used to isolate any desired instrument within a mix, and then solo and slow down that element for study; isolate a fast guitar solo, for example, and slow it down to learn it. R-MIX can be used to clean up old recordings and master stereo mixes by adjusting individual instrument levels and applying noise reduction and effects, and all with ease and at a high level of sound quality.

Watch the video - it's really quite interesting. The possibilities that come to mind are endless.



Honestly, I'm not sure I fully grasp all of them yet, but it's a pretty neat concept and implementation of new technology.

What are your thoughts?

 

[~BURNY~]

Pretty impressive on a purely technical level.
Not sure it will that useful for an AE except for fixing things that have been improperly made in the first place.

 

[SwambA]

This is awesome!

 

[wishtheend]

Might be handy for removing cymbal bleed from toms or something like there where there is a clear difference in where the sounds are harmonically.

 

[SwambA]

Taking the guitars out of a mix and getting an eq curve off them.

 

[Sloan]

Will help me get better samples for assholes to rap over.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

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