Subject:Removing music

Posted by: Ferox

Date:12/22/2002 8:32:26 AM

Can you remove music from Sound forge 6.0a? I want only the vocal... Or do I need another program??

Subject:RE: Removing music

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:12/22/2002 9:48:55 AM

If this is a typical mixed-down stereo (or mono) recording, there's just about nothing you can do. Once the different parts of the music are mixed together, there's no practical way to separate them.

Subject:RE: Removing music

Reply by: Ferox

Date:12/22/2002 12:06:54 PM

I am trying to remove music from mp3 file. Well I heard someone did it. And I heard you can do this with "frequency filtering". But I have no idea what that means..

Subject:RE: Removing music

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:12/22/2002 11:55:52 PM

The sound spectrum consists of a wide range of frequencies (notes). You can use equalization filters to isolate specific sets of notes, either to make them louder or quieter. If you could pick certain notes that were in the vocals, but not in the music, then you presumably could filter out the music notes and not the vocal notes. Sounds like a good idea at first, but still not practical.

Think of the notes as colors of light; the lower notes (frequencies) would be red, moving up the piano keyboard you would then go through orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple would be the highest notes. Most vocals would be yellow or green so you could filter out the other colors to keep just that section. But most music is like white light, containing all the colors. You could filter out the red, orange, blue, and purple, but you'd still have the yellow and green of not just the vocals, but the music too. Since they're in the same range, you can't filter out one and not the other.

Does that make any sense?

Subject:RE: Removing music

Reply by: Ferox

Date:12/23/2002 5:12:40 AM

Ok thanks I understood the whole thing.

Subject:Remove vocal 30

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:12/16/2004 7:54:01 PM

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