Members Steve the Hero Posted November 10, 2009 Members Share Posted November 10, 2009 How would I go about separating the vocals from the instrumental sections of a song? Is there software to do this? I have a Mac if this is of any help. Anyways, I'm really looking to try to take chunks of vocals and put them over different instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted November 10, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 10, 2009 google "vocal removal software MAC" and take your pick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mary Posted November 10, 2009 Members Share Posted November 10, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yalpmfm try this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Manipulate Posted November 10, 2009 Members Share Posted November 10, 2009 It doesn't work like that. It's impossible. All you can do is try to remove the frequency range where the vocals are or do center cancelling but you'll also end up removing large swaths of the instrumental track in the process and you'll get pretty poor results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steve the Hero Posted November 10, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 10, 2009 Thanks guys, I just figured there would be something that you prefer or would recommend as opposed to Google giving me thousands of hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rikv Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 you can experiment with http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Audio/vremover/Freeware.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members synthesia Posted December 1, 2009 Members Share Posted December 1, 2009 Thanks guys, I just figured there would be something that you prefer or would recommend as opposed to Google giving me thousands of hits. instead of being cheeky listen to what Manipulate has to say. removing the vocals from a song isn't as easy as running it through a program or plug-in. tracks are mastered and mixed to make every part of it blend together into an enjoyable piece of music. all a "vocal remover program" is doing is cutting out a certain frequency which holds primarily the vocals. But your still going to have all the other instruments that are in that frequency range, it is impossible to just single out one noise in a group of multiple noises in the same selected frequency range. It's like taking a picture of a sunset and saying I want to cut out just a precise color red from all the other blended instances of the color throughout the painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kamelia23 Posted December 31, 2009 Members Share Posted December 31, 2009 Oops :oops: Should have read the title more carefully. You'd think you could "remove the vocals" leaving just the music, then turn around and subtract that "music only" track from the original, thus removing the music and leaving the vocals. But it doesn't work. The problem is that "vocal removal" doesn't really "remove vocals" - it removes anything panned to the middle by subtracting the right channel from the left channel. Anything that is common to both channels (like vocals, or bass, or kick drum) is removed. Start with a stereo recording with L and R channels.Subtract R from L to remove centre-panned material and you have a new (mono) channel:S = L - RNow go back to your original L and R channels and subtract S from each of them.L' = L - S = L - (L - R) = RR' = R - S = R - (L - R) = 2R - L You shuffled the sound around between the two channels but you haven't removed the music. No matter how you twist and squirm there's no way you can do it. "Unscrambling eggs" indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Damien_O Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 Yeah you can't remove vocals. if you're thinking about those songs you hear with samples where it seems like the backing musical track with no vocals attached, that's actually just clever slicing and editing done before performance. OR, you'll notice when a musician, usually electronic or hip hop artists, release singles, there will be multiple versions, and usually vocal only or music only versions too. that's what singles are for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hank_chaos Posted January 26, 2010 Members Share Posted January 26, 2010 this project sounds pretty sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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