An analog to this might be the settings of knobs and switches for an audio synthesizer, or guitar effects settings. If you wanted to get the "Led Zeppelin sound" from a guitar, you could take a picture of the knobs on the various pedals and their configuration, and replicate that yourself. You then create a new song that uses those settings. Is that something that is allowed under copyright?

What if there were billions of knobs, tuned after years of feedback and observations of the sound output?