Removing vocals using new soundforge???

[mol3000]

Im using the new soundforge and wanted to know the best way to remove vocals off of a wav file to just have the instrumental???

[liquid217]

I assume SoundForge still uses directX plugins. If so, try this: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/vremover.htm

[mol3000]

i will try it and let you know

[mol3000]

i put it in sonys plugin dir but cant pull it up. What am i doing wrong????? also yes sf still uses directx plugins

[liquid217]

Once you download the installer, run it. Do not move anything to the sony directory. DirectX plugins do not really have anything to do with sony, other than Vegas can use them. Once installed, start up vegas, and on the audio timeline, add a filter. You could have one called "AnalogX vocal remover".

[mol3000]

i have looked thru every menu and didnt see " add filter "

[slacker]

It looks like it needs to show up in the plug-in manager (Ctrl+Alt+0). To apply, it can be selected from the Effects Menu. Please verify!

[mol3000]

i cant even see it on soundforge but i can in win amp the only thing is i cant control where it goes and cant find the file

[mol3000]

is there another vocal remover out there and was this the same vocal remover for virtual dj software??????

[guns1inger]

Did you download the directx version or just the winamp version ?

[mol3000]

i have both.... and i still cant pull it up in sound forge..... can someone plese help?????

[lordsmurf]

All this work and I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed. There is really no way to remove vocals unless they're on another separate track. And it that's the case, then just don't use the vocal track.

[anubis13]

If your vocals are already mixed down to your music it will be practically impossible to remove them. Any Plug-in you user wil most likely leave your music sounding like crap. If its a popular song you might be able to find a Karaoke version.

[Jester700]

Well, you could do "the trick" manually - this is all the plugins do:
Take one channel, invert it, sum both channels to mono. Ta-da. Now you have your very own crappy sounding karaoke.

You can maintain some of the bass that gets removed by copying the original file, lowpassing it around 100Hz, and mix pasting that back in after the cancellation routine.

as was said by others, don't expect much.

[mol3000]

dam.... and i have tried like 2 different vocal removing softwares and they dont rip the right things out of the beat..... and it do sound really shhhhhhhhhh.......... oh well

[Kurt S]

Probably the best way to remove vocals is using Adobe Audition's center channel extractor. It has a vocal remover option that is definatly better then the invert and sum filter that most audio editors use for vocal removal. It still won't be perfect but a lot better then most audio editors vocal removal filters.

[mol3000]

i will try it and let you know.... i really didnt wanna dl another big software but oh well.......

[mol3000]

i was finally able to see that vocal remover in sf but it doesnt work???? did i so something wrong?????