Possible method to optionally remove all harmonics from FFT

[connornishijima]

• Starting with the highest note of a piano (C8) test for the presence of a peak at its fundamental frequency.
• If a peak is found, the frequency we are testing for is divided by 2.
• Check for the presence of a peak at our new target, which is 1/2 the frequency of C8
• If found, this is now considered the fundamental.
• The division process is repeated until the tested frequency falls below A0 (27.5 Hz) OR:
• Once the tested frequency no longer has a detectable peak, the previous frequency above it is known (to a good enough extent for entertainment purposes) to be the fundamental frequency of the playing note.
• Knowing which FFT bins are the fundamental and which are harmonics, begin extracting the fundamental peak
• Starting from the center, a bounding box is "grown" away from the center of the peak until the values at its edges have little difference to their neighbors or reach zero (flat/black area of FFT image)
• This area (the fundamental peak) of the FFT is added in-place to a temporary buffer the same size as the FFT image
• This is repeated to all detected fundamental peaks.
• The resulting buffer includes the original signal image, minus the harmonics.
• This is repeated for the 11 semitones below C8.

Extra Note: while the C8 range is used as the reference frequency to start from, all iterations that are > the top frequency of the displayed FFT are skipped, since we can't observe them anyways.

[connornishijima]

Upon further investigation, this doesn't work as intended. It would just produce a spectrogram with all of the visible values at the bottom only, unintentionally creating a lame chromagram of sorts. I'll reopen if I think of any better options.