vocal removal

I am working with sonar 2.0 xl and I have always wondered how to properly remove vocals from audio tracks I know theres a way but i want to know if any of you have a pride and true method. I am very confident that it can be done in sonar but how?

It probably isn't possible , but can you do this the other way around, extracting vocals from a recording ??

Okay, i can't really give detailed click-by-click instructions because my recording computer doesn't have any interweb, but here's the basic procedure and you can read the manual for details on the mechanics of each step. There are probably easiers ways to achieve this, but this is the most foolproof I can think of off the top of my head.

1. Split the original Stereo Track into two mono clips called "L1" and "R1". Clone those two clips and call them "L2" and "R2." You should now have four clips all set to play at the same time. If there are any other tracks in the project (such as the original stereo clip), mute them.

2. Reverse the phase of L2 and R2 (using the 'phase in/out' switch). When you play back all four clips at the same time you should now hear silence (because they cancel each other out).

3. Pan L1 hard left and R1 hard right (just like you would think they should be). Pan L2 hard right and R2 hard left, opposite of where they were originally.

4. When you play back all four tracks, they will basically cancel out anything that is exactly the same in both tracks (i.e. anything that was panned in the center). Bounce the project to a stereo clip (Maotar, you could just stop here and have your "instrumental track").

5. Take the resulting stereo clip, call it "difference" and invert its phase.

6. Play back the phase-inverted "difference" clip along with the original and it will cancel out everything that was not panned center. Bounce those two to a new clip and you're done. It'll probably be some fizzy-sounding mix of vocals, kick, snare, and varying levels of anything else that panned in or near the middle.

Again, this technique doesn't work on all tracks, and when it does work, it usually sounds pretty bad. You can play around with eq's, multiband compressors, whatever at differe3nt stages of the process if you like to try and get better results. Cheers and good luck.

I forget off the top of my head, but I know it can be done pretty easily. Check the index under "stereo tracks" or some such. Cheers.

The bottom line is that it really can not be done, sure you can invert and shave the wave file down but you lose much of the other mix vocals are never completely down the middle and even if they are so is some of the other tracks so you lose a lot

Look at it this way try and remove the eggs from an chocolate cake

Does and ony know of a trail sofware that i can use to do this? It must be able to save ans be able to compleat the changes that allow the background music to be removed.

 

But the good news is you can do this quite easily in Sonar, or any decent audio software. Just rip the stereo track as two seperate clips and then invert the phase of one of them, and mix them together. Any information that was identical on both sides (i.e. panned dead center) will be completely cancelled out. Try it and see how it works. Cheers.


hey, i just intalled voice trap but cant launch it. any help? which is the command in sonar i can get it in hands with?

thx.

greysight7


I am working with sonar 2.0 xl and I have always wondered how to properly remove vocals from audio tracks I know theres a way but i want to know if any of you have a pride and true method. I am very confident that it can be done in sonar but how?

I find it's best to keep the singer as far from the mic as possible? This does a pretty good job of removing the vocals.

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