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YBK · Mon Jun 09, 2003 3:51 am

Hi

Does anybody know of any program that can seperate the singer's voice from the beat/music.

Thanks

b3n113 · Mon Jun 09, 2003 4:51 am

(Since this is a .edu site the bandwidth is cheap and aplenty I'll direct link it)

THIS is how you separate the voices from the music.

YBK · Mon Jun 09, 2003 5:40 am

Lets not go to drastic measures.

etilena · Mon Jun 09, 2003 6:24 am

LOL.

Loops · Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:11 pm

Hey that works.

Mon Jun 09, 2003 3:18 pm

LOL

That group looks like an ad for the hair club for men.

eckslax · Mon Jun 09, 2003 6:01 pm

Whoa... I just lost my appetite for about two hours. :-?

Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:22 am

Do you mean you want to have just the voice, or just the backing track?

Most pop/rock music has the lead vocal (and usually bass) mixed as the center channel, with everything else mixed off center. You can remove the center channel by doing a "left minus right" calculation... this will leave you with the backing track, possibly minus the bass.

At some point, I wrote a command line program that will do this to a 16-bit stereo .wav file... if you're interested, I can see if I can dig it up and post it.

YBK · Tue Jun 10, 2003 3:24 am

Oh thanks just brew it!, so there is a way.

I just wanted to create a funny tune about a friend. My voice is too bad though, I think my cousin sounds a bit better. Wait a second after a trial it was not true, we both sound really really bad.

Anyway if you can find that command line it would make things easier. I want to use Jessie's girl by Rick Springfield as the background tune.

It would be soo funny. :lol:

With a bit of word changing.

But I have the MP3 format of the song, will that cause some difficulities. I can send you guys the finished song. It would sound soo bad; I can imagine, but probably will be worth a laugh. We already made the beta :lol:

Though I think its toooooo bad to share.

YBK · Tue Jun 10, 2003 3:26 am

I just want the backing track.

(if you did not understand from the prior post)

Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:26 am

OK, try downloading this command line tool:
http://justbrewit.net/download/zapcenter.exe

You will need to convert the MP3 file to 16-bit stereo .wav format first. If you don't have a tool to do this, download a copy of Musicmatch, or get an eval copy of Nero Wave Editor (comes with the Nero package).

Then run:

zapcenter filename

in a command prompt window. This should cancel the center (L+R) channel out of the specified .wav file, leaving you with what is essentially a mono .wav file containing only the side channel (L-R) information. As I mentioned previously, you may also lose most of the bass, depending on how the track was mixed.

This tool was essentially a half-hour hack I did about a year ago, in response to a similar request on another forum... I just re-tested it before posting it to the server, but I make no guarantees. :wink:

YBK · Wed Jun 11, 2003 3:40 am

Thanks

but I can't seem to get it to work. I open the file all I get is a command prompt window that intantly disapears.

Am I missing something.

etilena · Wed Jun 11, 2003 4:26 am

If it is a command prompt program I think you need to run it from a command prompt. It's in Accessories folder. It parses a variable (the wave file), so you type the command and the song file variable.

etilena · Wed Jun 11, 2003 4:36 am

Tried the program. It works, but really depends on how the MP3 was encoded. Wow, justbrewit, fabulous program. :wink:

Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:30 am

Glad to hear it worked out. Yes, quality of MP3 encoding will affect how well it works; MP3s encoded at high bitrate and/or with "Joint Stereo" encoding will probably give better results. Best case is probably using a .wav ripped directly from the original CD. Also in some cases the vocals may be mixed slightly "off center", in which case the program won't be able to remove them.

YBK · Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:00 am

I think I am just pathetic. :lol:

Just can't get it to work.

I'll tell my friend about it, hope he can find out how. Apparently it should work.

Wed Jun 11, 2003 8:06 am

1. Download the zapcenter.exe file, and save it in a new folder.

2. Convert your MP3 file to .wav format by whatever means you have at your disposal (or rip a fresh copy directly to .wav format). Save the converted file (let's call it myfile.wav) it in the same folder where you saved zapcenter.exe.

3. Open a command (DOS prompt) window, and navigate to the folder where you saved the two files from step 1 and 2.

4. In the command prompt window, type: zapcenter myfile.wav

5. Play myfile.wav with whatever audio player app you prefer (e.g. Winamp).

(Sometimes I forget that there's a whole generation of computer users out there who have never used the DOS command prompt!

)

element · Wed Jun 11, 2003 3:36 pm

YBK wrote:
I think I am just pathetic. Just can't get it to work.

I'll tell my friend about it, hope he can find out how. Apparently it should work.

Someone from the point and click generation :-)

No offense YBK.

-edit:
JBI stated the same above, didn't read the entire thread :-)

YBK · Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:31 pm

JustBrewIt wrote:
1. Download the zapcenter.exe file, and save it in a new folder.

2. Convert your MP3 file to .wav format by whatever means you have at your disposal (or rip a fresh copy directly to .wav format). Save the converted file (let's call it myfile.wav) it in the same folder where you saved zapcenter.exe.

3. Open a command (DOS prompt) window, and navigate to the folder where you saved the two files from step 1 and 2.

4. In the command prompt window, type: zapcenter myfile.wav

5. Play myfile.wav with whatever audio player app you prefer (e.g. Winamp).

(Sometimes I forget that there's a whole generation of computer users out there who have never used the DOS command prompt! )

Thanks I will try it when i return from school.

I was trying clicking and draging the file into DOS, then clicking and dragging the wav. :-?

YBK · Fri Jun 13, 2003 6:44 am

Hi

Yey it works thanks to my cousin. The voice of the artist is a bit in the background though. (Mp3 compression I guess)

Anyway thanks

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