Help for Audacity on macOS.
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hayes
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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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kozikowski
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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