Isolating Vox (acapellas) Help, How do you isolate the vocals from CDs Options

[Lycius_Down]

Does any one know of a way to isolate vocals from a CD or vinyl source? For example, I want to hear only the rapper in the hip-hop song, and not the beats.

The following link explains how to do it with Cool Edit and Soundforge (PC software), but I haven't found a complement on the Mac side.

How to make A capellas

I'm assuming you could do it be a difference of the soundwaves. A soundwave anaylsis with just the beats, and then measure the difference with the vox and beats fromt he source. Or perhaps, messing with compression and a vocoder. But I don't see any software that does this on demand. Perhaps Csound ?

How do DJ's do it in the clubs? I know they use instrumental versions of songs, but how do tehy merge the vox so seemlessesly?


I'm using Cubase 1.06. on iBook G3 500, 576mb ram.

Any tips?

Ce message a été modifié par Lycius_Down - sam. 19 mars 2005, 05:48.

[coldharbour]

So a capellas can be bought then alongside instrumentals?

I suppose it's a lot more work than I thought. The phaseshift idea seems like it's a good idea, but time consuming.

Sometimes accapella is included - usually not - and if there's an accapella it won't usually appear on the "consumer" CD, check out the 12" and special DJ promo-editions.