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Started by bobn1944, December 21, 2018, 07:32:40 AM

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bobn1944

Hi all. Does anyone know of a program/app that will remove some tracks from an audio file?
What I am trying to do is remove all tracks except drums and the girl talking on Human League's Human
in order to play along with it on my S950.
I have Audacity which is an audio editing program but it only lists two tracks, LH/RH stereo.
You can I believe remove the vocal track using Audacity, but that is not what I want to do.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all

DerekA

I don't believe that you can do this.

A song is recorded in a studio using a multi-track recorder, then mixed down to a single L/R stereo pair. It's not possible to go the other way, back to multi tracks.

The 'remove vocal track' function is a kind of fudge that analyses the stereo pair and tries to remove what is most likely to be vocal frequencies present in both L and R at the same time.
Genos

rodrigo.b

Quote from: bobn1944 on December 21, 2018, 07:32:40 AM
Hi all. Does anyone know of a program/app that will remove some tracks from an audio file?
What I am trying to do is remove all tracks except drums and the girl talking on Human League's Human
in order to play along with it on my S950.
I have Audacity which is an audio editing program but it only lists two tracks, LH/RH stereo.
You can I believe remove the vocal track using Audacity, but that is not what I want to do.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all


With Xtra Stems 2 you can do it but the program is not free. I have it and it's amanzing but not perfect.

pjd

Quote from: rodrigo.b on December 21, 2018, 09:23:39 AM
With Xtra Stems 2 you can do it but the program is not free. I have it and it's amanzing but not perfect.

+1

I heard a demo of v1 last summer and it works reasonably well. The extracted audio may have some artifacts and drop-outs, but the artifacts can be hidden when mixed with other audio (e.g., your playing).

Audionamix is the company. They just released v2.

All the best -- pj


bobn1944

Thanks to everyone who answered
Looks like it's a no go this time

Regards
Bob