how to make an acapella version of a song on mac

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how to make an acapella version of a song on mac

Post by hayes » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:54 pm

Hello! I'm totally new at this and obviously, I dont know anything.
It would be really helpful if you explain how to make an acapella version of a song on mac.
Thank you so much! :)

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Re: how to make an acapella version of a song on mac

Post by kozikowski » Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:16 pm

You get one or more people to sing into a microphone without backing tracks or music.

Vocal Isolation of an existing song is a nice idea but there are no tools that do a reasonable job. You stand a much better chance of making a karaoke track, music without the vocals, but that mostly fails, too.

Taking apart a mixed song into instruments or voices in post production is difficult to impossible -- especially if you start with a ratty, compressed internet download.

Koz

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