itunes / ASD~ removing vocals
Hi,
Is there a technique or APP that will allow me to remove vocals from a song. I am not aware of itunes or ASD catering to do this so assume that there must be an APP somewhere?
Thanks
This blog post claims it can work: https://www.notta.ai/en/blog/audacity-vocal-remover#:~:text=Where%20is%20the%20Vocal%20Remover,the%20strength%20of%20the%20effect.
I have not tried it, but other times I've tried similar effects it's always been hit or miss. It might be good enough for some songs, do nothing for others.
Depending of what you want this for, there's also websites which allow you to purchase covers of famous songs (blues and jazz standards are usually available) in different keys and customizing your mix in (like, remove the sax and violins) so such a website might also allow you to find a backing track without vocals, if the song you're looking for is available there. They're kinda pricy per song though but band quality seems good in some of them.
Another option is to purchase Play Along books which include the songs you want. For example Hal Leonard has some of those for harmonica and they include backing tracks on a CD or via a downloadable link. Quality varies and I assume you can't publish your song using those, so again depending on what you want to do this might not be enough. For practicing they're generally OK.
Finally, if the song follows a common chord progression (say the typical 8, 12 or 16 bar blues) you can find plenty of backing tracks you can use instead. I know this is not what you asked for, but depending on what you need this for, using a fitting backing track might be a good enough solution for you (or not).
I received a notification today that BandLab is launching (in beta) a new tool called "Splitter" which promises to do exactly this: split any song in tracks (vocals, bass, drums and other instruments). I'm a BandLab user (it's free) but so far i have been unable to get splitter to work.
So a quick Google search brought me to https://www.lalal.ai/ and the results were pretty impressive. I am not sure you will be able to use them, whatever you need this for, but I uploaded a couple songs to test and soon I had a pretty decent (for practice only) instrumental versions of Checkin Up On My Babe, Got My Mojo Working and I'm Tore Down. But the best part is you can also get the vocals track, do I had the totally eerie experience of hearing Sonny Boy, Muddy Waters and Freddy King sing "a capella". It is great to hear just their vocals isolated from the instruments in famous songs, it felt a bit like I was hearing them sing at the shower or while preparing for a gig.
I only listened to the previews, since lalal.ai has per-minute pricing plans and i don't really need to use their service, but it seemed pretty affordable and they allow you to upload songs and test them for free before paying (they have a $30 and a $15 options, both single payment, no subscription, bard in the number of minutes of audio you will upload). I assume if you are doing to use this often, you can also splice the songs and upload only the parts with vocals to get more bang for your buck.
So if you are still looking for something like this, give BandLab's splitter and this all.ai a try, they might do what you need. BabdLab is free so I'd start with that one, but as i said i so far didn't manage to get it to work, it just hangs at 60% of the song, maybe try in some weeks when they have improved it.
I have no affiliation with either of these two software companies, BTW. I'm BandLab user because it's free and suits my needs, but I that's it.
Cheers!
So it seems the BandLab Splitter also works, it just takes a long time to do the splitting. The interesting thing is it will split the instruments in four different tracks (vocals, drums, bass and rest of the instruments) and then let you mix them up at different volumes and change the speed and pitch of all of them except the drums. So this is a good free option for removing vocals and making practice jam tracks.
Hello inky. I don't believe either program can do this (I've not heard or seen this advertised as a feature). Vocal eliminator software has been around for a long time. Here's one sample of an app that does this https://www.lalal.ai It doesn't always work unfortunately--it depends on how the vocals were mixed in the original track.