Is there a software that can remove singing?

In a song? Most of a singers voice is sitting in the center.

So the cheap way is to flip the phase of the one side of the track and move until the voice is gone. This will cancel out the frequencies of the singers voice. You may lose a little low end here but nothing drastic.

The expensive way is to buy melodyne direct note access.
 
Mitch.Kear said:
In a song? Most of a singers voice is sitting in the center.

So the cheap way is to flip the phase of the one side of the track and move until the voice is gone. This will cancel out the frequencies of the singers voice. You may lose a little low end here but nothing drastic.
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The phase reversal technique doesn't just remove the vocals. Anything that's in the middle will disappear... and this trick won't completely remove everything. Any of the centered voices that have stereo effects will still have remnants of the effects. Further, it will affect the crossover area for voices/instruments that are panned, but still have any presence in the center. What you'll be left with is a muddy, unintelligible piece of sound that has lost all signs of life but still has remnants of the "removed" vocals.

Mitch.Kear said:
The expensive way is to buy melodyne direct note access.
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This is not what Melodyne is designed to do. Their own Q&A section talks about the fact that Melodyne cannot discern notes between mixed voices in a recording.

Once a recording is completed, mixed, and mastered, there is no effective way to remove the vocals.
 
The description say it:

centered vocals without echo will be stripped away, and centered vocals with echo or reverb will be reduced automatically. Any remaining vocals provide a pleasing backup vocal effect.
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"Pleasing" backup effect LOL.

Frank
 
David G. Smith said:
Have you tried that software? I find it pretty hard to believe that a $29 consumer app could remove vocals from a song and leave you with a music track that is usable.
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From their website:

Using sophisticated waveform sound inversion software technology, centered vocals without echo will be stripped away, and centered vocals with echo or reverb will be reduced automatically. Any remaining vocals provide a pleasing backup vocal effect.
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So, this pretty much does what we've already discussed: phase-reverses one channel. They dress it up and make it sound fancy by calling it "sophisticated waveform sound inversion software technology", but that doesn't make it any more effective. And calling the crappy remnants of vocals and effects a "pleasing backup vocal effect" is just trying to market the flaws and imperfections as intentional and usable. Nice.

Of course, they also specify:

Your original recording must be in stereo and vocals need to be in the center of the stereo track; vocals on the left and right sides are not removed.
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EDIT: Frank beat me to it while I was copying and pasting...
 
"Usable for what?" is the the question. This method is for using phase cancellation to mostly remove the vocals so you can warble over the music, karaoke style. My berringer mixer even has that effect, and it does work pretty well. But if the question is whether you can remove vocals so you can have a clean music track to use in a video without singing in it, then probably not. But it does seem like magic how the vocal just disappears.
 
Chadfish said:
There are Karaoke related things that do this. It doesn't work on all songs, but it does exist. http://www.make-your-own-karaoke.com/?gclid=CMjtiJ-oyKoCFWgZQgod33Uyzw
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Exactly, not on all songs but try it on yours, but don't spend money on that crap when you can do it yourself for free.

Alex H. said:
This is not what Melodyne is designed to do. Their own Q&A section talks about the fact that Melodyne cannot discern notes between mixed voices in a recording.

Once a recording is completed, mixed, and mastered, there is no effective way to remove the vocals.
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Just like the phase reverse it depends on the song and with yours it may work. Though i wasn't actually suggesting it, sarcasm is hard to sense in cyber space.

Good Luck
 
Alex H. said:
From their website:



So, this pretty much does what we've already discussed: phase-reverses one channel. They dress it up and make it sound fancy by calling it "sophisticated waveform sound inversion software technology", but that doesn't make it any more effective. And calling the crappy remnants of vocals and effects a "pleasing backup vocal effect" is just trying to market the flaws and imperfections as intentional and usable. Nice.

Of course, they also specify:



EDIT: Frank beat me to it while I was copying and pasting...
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Somewhere, perhaps here, I read that one of the early Beatle albums was cut in the US from 'master tapes', that had the instrumental on one track, and the vocals on the other track. The engineers here were supposed to 'mix' the two, but instead put them out as they where... it made for very easy 'emptyvoicing' of that record...

I think this may have been in reference to a recent (like the last couple of years...) of a re-release, with the correct stereo mixing... and loss of easy emptyvoicing.
 
Alright, folks. Let's stay on-topic. I know it wasn't direct discussion of religion, but cracks on any denomination or world religion still fits in that category of "off-limits" topics.
 
I believe the Thompson Vocal Eliminator has a software version now. Google it; it should work better than karaoke software.The Beatles thing is a bit complicated...GJ
 
The short answer is no. When this has come up before (a kids dance recital where they wanted the vocals out) I used a MIDI file and rendered it. On many popular songs there are decent MIDI versions on the web.

It should be pointed out though that while you can kind of slide by with a unpaid school dance recital as an "educational" use, the song is still copyrighted and even though you are not using a commercial recording you would still need to get the music rights AND the rights from whoever programed the MIDI file to legally use the music.
 
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