Un-mixer

Lift the melody off the pulse — pull Karel’s piano into its harmonic and percussive layers and re-balance them live.

Live HPSS studio instrument

Median-filter Harmonic/Percussive Source Separation runs on the real recording, then two faders let you rebalance the sustained chords against the attack transients. First ~30s of the track are separated and looped.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski