Question

[Kasez]

Im pretty new to the game and this might be a dumb question, but i was wondering if there is a program or any way to seperate the vocals from the beat of something thats already recorded? (like say a jay z song thats in wav or mp3) Ive heard a program called av music morpher can do it? but i dont know. any help would be much appreciated

 

[kevp]

There's programs that say they can do it. But you really cant get the vocals/beat separated without screwing the SQ beyond it being useful. Contact the artist you want an acapella from=the only way to get a clean acapella track.

Bake a cake. Try to take out the eggs. Same thing with songs after being mixed down.

 

[Sick Wid It]

Not possible 99.9% of the time. You can always try finding the acapella/instrumental version of the song though, usually available on 12", promo cd or cdm.

 

[kevp]

i know that u were only using jay z as an example, but in case you were interested, you can get the full black album acapella version. they sell it at tower and places like that. just in case u didn't know.

but yeah, there's no program that does it very well. i bought Audacity on eBay a few years ago because it claimed to be able to do it. here's how they said to remove vocals from instrumental tracks. they claimed that if you did the opposite, it'd work.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=editing&i=remove-vocals

it didn't work for rap tracks. sometimes it worked for hooks but the sound quality was terrible. it worked sometimes for other genres of music but the recording process in rap is different than most others.

Hmm. That could work, it'd take out everything that's centrally panned though. Unless i'm missing something.

Audacity is freeware though you aint gotta pay for it.

 

[DJ Mark 7]

also, the search feature on this forum can be beneficial to ya