Good evening André, Roger and list, Roger is correct in that pretty much all professionally produced CD's and the new vinyls are recorded in a multi-track format. As to recording and editing software, there are several audio packages that offer multi-track capabilities. Some of these applications include Audacity which is a free download, Reaper, which is a very moderately priced package which costs in the $35 to $40 range, and Sonar, which is a high end multi-track sound editor which is often used by professional recording studios. To give equal coverage to avid Mac users, there are Mac-based multi-track editors as well. I believe one of these is called Cakewalk and Studio Garage Band or something simllar to that also.
About all of these sound editors will enable the user to solo individual tracks or listen to the full mix. I provide this explanation as I think it makes it easier to envision that eliminating specified tracks is by no means a technically difficult task. So happy karaoke time. Best regards, Rob Tabor -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 6:24 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: removing vocal from music The guy I knew never seemed to have any problems. So maybe they all are done that way when recorded professionally. Roger -----Original Message----- From: André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:12 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: removing vocal from music Interesting. But that will then only work for music which is specifically recorded in that way? Andre -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 15 May 2013 10:07 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: removing vocal from music A friend, before he died, make his living singing with a portable karaoke machine and he used the type of software you describe to strip the vocals off of CD's. I understand the CD's have the vocals in a different track to the music so it is relatively easy for software to achieve this. Remember a lot of music CD's are compiled with each instrument, sound effect and vocal being on a different track and synchronised and put together for the finished result. Roger -----Original Message----- From: André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: removing vocal from music Hi all I’m just curious. On the internet I see software advertised that is supposed to be able to remove the vocals from a track so that you can use it for karaoke. I must confess I am rather sceptical about these claims? But is this actually possible? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
