Free Vocal Remover

youngblood

Does anyone know of a free programme to remove the vocals on an MP3 track I have to make an instumental version of it?

I have been looking at and downloaded a few but they only remove 15sec-1min worth of audio.

Anyone to help?

squibs

The traditional answer was that it couldn't really be done, except for a phase cancellation trick that worked if the vocals were center panned and everything else was panned to the sides, but spectral analysis techniques have been creating some interesting possibilities.

I'm not aware of any freeware offerings, but you could get the fully functional eval version of reaper by cockos and use the Spectral EQ plugin by Elevayta which is $30. Check out the sample mp3s. It wont be perfect, and depending on the source material you may not get a good enough result, but there is a demo which should let you see if it will work for you
http://www.paulrharvey.co.uk/elevayta/product13.htm

madtheory

What's the song?

Removing the vocal on an mp3 really shows up the compression artifacts. Like, it makes bad sound quality a lot worse.

frobisher

Iºve never come across anything that has been able to do the job well. Although when I see what melodyne is up to these days Im prepared for anything.

white_falcon

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/VOCAL_REMOVERS/

studiorat

I'm sure you could find a karoke version online.
OR you sould just sing louder.