Re: Member update, needs help
2017/11/13 19:15:41
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Isolating vocals from a full band recording is at best hit and miss because other things will be occupying the same frequency band as the vocals so gets isolated along with them. Pitch-changing will also pitch-change any of the band that's still in the "isolated" vocals and when put back together the end result might not be good. It's a little easier to remove and throw away vocals than it is to keep the vocals and remove the rest, but not much.
Audacity (a useful and free application) might be able to do what you want. At least, do it as well as anything else. Audacity's help on removing and isolating vocals is here -
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_vocal_removal_and_isolation.html Software aimed at the forensic acoustics side of things may also be useful, but it tends to be expensive and not much better than anything else if you want to preserve the tone and pitch of the voice rather than just increase the legibility of speech in a recording with a lot of background noise.
In Sonar I'd suggest isolating the vocal frequencies by trial and error and seeing how much of the rest of the track still persists. If the vocals are panned dead centre then a combination of mid/side processing to isolate the centre followed by eq to try to remove as much of what remains other than vocals would probably be the way to go. Sonar's Channel Tools can convert stereo in to mid/side and back again.
If the recording is effectively mono, things get a lot more difficult.
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