Isolating Vox (acapellas) Help, How do you isolate the vocals from CDs Options

[Lycius_Down]

Does any one know of a way to isolate vocals from a CD or vinyl source? For example, I want to hear only the rapper in the hip-hop song, and not the beats.

The following link explains how to do it with Cool Edit and Soundforge (PC software), but I haven't found a complement on the Mac side.

How to make A capellas

I'm assuming you could do it be a difference of the soundwaves. A soundwave anaylsis with just the beats, and then measure the difference with the vox and beats fromt he source. Or perhaps, messing with compression and a vocoder. But I don't see any software that does this on demand. Perhaps Csound ?

How do DJ's do it in the clubs? I know they use instrumental versions of songs, but how do tehy merge the vox so seemlessesly?


I'm using Cubase 1.06. on iBook G3 500, 576mb ram.

Any tips?

This post has been edited by Lycius_Down: Sat 19 Mar 2005, 05:48

[coldharbour]

So a capellas can be bought then alongside instrumentals?

I suppose it's a lot more work than I thought. The phaseshift idea seems like it's a good idea, but time consuming.

Sometimes accapella is included - usually not - and if there's an accapella it won't usually appear on the "consumer" CD, check out the 12" and special DJ promo-editions.