Remove the music from a song

[Timef]

is there any software that will
remove the music from a song and only keep the vocals?
Can anyone please help me?

[housepig]

depending on how the song is mixed, you can try.

if you have something with the music on one side, and music & lyrics on the other, you can invert the phase on the music-only track and combine it with the music+lyrics track, and in theory it will cancel the music out and leave the lyrics.

in practice, it rarely works that cleanly, and it's usually a project where you spend a ton of time for not very good results.

you'd be better off looking for an acapella version on a 12" somewhere...

[troyvcd1]

Supposubly the vocals is on the left or right channels and you can use nero wave editor to cancel one out. I dont think that this will really work but this is what I heard.

[Timef]

Any comments....

[jakol]

if vocals are mixed in both L & R channel, its impossible to get the vocals only. tried this wit different audio editor, col edit pro, nero wave etc.
wat you can do though is to record ur own vocals thats if you can sing good.

[stk]

i heard that you can do it with adobe audition

[rhegedus]

If 'karaoke' functions can remove vocals, would there be any way of subtracting the 'karaoke track' from the original, leaving vocals only?

[Shakaru]

This dosent work because all audio you get is mixxed into 2 channals. When you hear a pro dj make a remix, they got ahold of the origonal tracks. 8track players have everything on speperate tracks. Thats also why you hear remixs of 70's and 80's song because they came out on 8track.

[housepig]

8track players have everything on speperate tracks. Thats also why you hear remixs of 70's and 80's song because they came out on 8track.

there's a difference between a 70's 8-track consumer tape and an 8-(or more)-track recording.

8 track tapes use 4 stereo channels ( 8 tracks) across the width of the 1/2" tape, all playing in the same direction (unlike regular cassette tapes, which are 2 stereo channels (4 tracks ), across 1/4" tape, going in two different directions.

an 8-track recording, or an 8-track tape from an 8-track recorder, typically is between 1" and 2" wide, and has different instruments recorded on each track, which are then mixed down for the final output recording.