Removing vocals

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Cam678
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Removing vocals

Post by Cam678 » Sat May 23, 2015 2:20 pm

Okay so I know you can drag and select a section of a song and generate silence in that gap, which is great for removing explicit language from the song. However, what if you wanted to cut out a section of vocals, but keep the instrumental going in the background? Is there a way to separate vocals from everything else and remove a section of JUST vocals, keeping everything else going?
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cyrano
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Re: Removing vocals

Post by cyrano » Sat May 23, 2015 8:37 pm

Have a look here:

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 6&p=276075

It's not always easy and it won't work for some vocals.
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Robert J. H.
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Re: Removing vocals

Post by Robert J. H. » Sun May 24, 2015 8:58 am

cyrano wrote:Have a look here:

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 6&p=276075

It's not always easy and it won't work for some vocals.
You can try the Vocal Reduction and Isolation effect if you like:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/ ... p?id=12536
There's no documentation yet but the basic functionality should be clear.
See also (apart from the topic above)
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 8c#p276170

Feed back is much appreciated.

Robert
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