Answering Notes, I’m familiar with those early attempts and yes, they worked to some degree by panning to create the necessary phasing that would cancel out a voice or specific instrument. Yes, that did terrible damage to the quality of the resulting audio. So I would have to say the new algorithms bear no resemblance to that. You really can almost get away with unbaking the cake.

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