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Old 03-21-2005, 06:05 PM   #1
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separating music and words??

Is there any program that is able to seperate the music from the actual singing with an mp3.

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Old 03-21-2005, 07:06 PM   #2
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Old 03-21-2005, 07:35 PM   #3
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bahhh, how do they do mashups then?
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Old 03-21-2005, 07:39 PM   #4
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next time you search on a P2P, type in "instrumental" as one of the keywords -- that will give you the background.

I don't know about getting just the vocals, I usually just rap over top of the instrumental versions.
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Old 03-22-2005, 12:55 AM   #5
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I don't know about getting just the vocals, I usually just rap over top of the instrumental versions.

the correct term is "A cappella".

so in your favorite p2p, use "a cappella" (or acappella, acapella, etc... you know how bad people are at spelling) as one of your key words.
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Old 03-22-2005, 01:12 AM   #6
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Do a Google search for vocal remover.

Here's a plugin for Winamp: http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...o/vremover.htm
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Old 03-22-2005, 07:27 AM   #7
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Yes, there is a "kinda-sorta" method to remove vocals. Basically, it reverses the phase of one channel in a stereo recording, then combines the two channels, and any audio that is exactly the same in both channels is removed.

Why does this remove the vocal? The most basic stereo recordings will have some instruments more in the left channel, others more in the right channel, with the vocals smack-dab in the middle. Since only the vocals are equal between the channels, only the vocals are removed. Sometimes the results are quite startling, with every trace of vocals removed. Most often, the results are disappointing.

In my experience, it works great on songs you don't care about, and doesn't work at all with the songs you REALLY wanted to work...

This is also the basic concept of how noise-canceling headphones work (mixing an out-of-phase signal with an in-phase signal.)
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Old 03-22-2005, 10:24 AM   #8
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Is there any program that is able to seperate the music from the actual singing with an mp3.

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Never heard of any. Doubt that you could do that unless the track is sold for kareoke fans. Until recently commercial music started out with many, many tracks which got pressed in a final stero mixdown with just right and left channels (that's what those long 50 channel mixboards are for). Both channels would have overlapping but slightly different sound.

Nowadays with surround sound more common you might be able to find DVD concerts, iPOD or other music where vocals are on separate tracks that can be clicked on or off. It's possible in theory but just a guess on my part.

There are also professional music software programs like "Pro Tools" that can isolate and adjust frequencies within an audio mix but human voice frequencies usually overlap musical instrument ranges so you'd be losing a lot of music if you wiped out the voices that lie in the mid-ranges.
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Old 03-22-2005, 10:32 AM   #9
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Yes, there is a "kinda-sorta" method to remove vocals. Basically, it reverses the phase of one channel in a stereo recording, then combines the two channels, and any audio that is exactly the same in both channels is removed.
Hey, that's interesting... sounds like it could kinda work. Vocals are often centered between the right and left channels, so wiping out everything in the center might do it. You could lose a lot of music that way also and just be left with a few muddled drums banging on the right and an obnoxious horn section on the other side.
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