Author Topic: Is there a program that can take the acapella out of a song? (Read 173 times)

authentic · « **on:** June 16, 2005, 03:57:46 PM »

i'm making a mixtape and i dont want to get acapellas that werent singles, because most im downloading were ppast or present singles and its kind of gay. so is there a prgram i can download, or is this impossible to do at an amateur level

authentic · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2005, 05:37:58 PM »

really? thanks guys..

Suga Foot · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2005, 08:52:52 PM »

Nope.

Trauma-san · « **Reply #3 on:** June 16, 2005, 09:22:25 PM »

See if you can follow this theory, but the only way to do it is to have the instrumental. If the beat loops, you can do it, but you'd have to be pretty good at editing the shit together.

O.K., if you have the instrumental of the song, it's easy to do. Get two versions of it, sampled at the same bit rate and everything, and as close to the same volume, etc. as possible, and invert the signal of the instrumental. Lay the inverted instrumental signal over the original single, and it'll cancel out all of the inverted music... so the inverted instrumental will 'delete' the un-inverted instrumental sounds on the single... leaving the only thing that wasn't inverted, the vocals.

If you were REALLY good, you could take a loop of the beat from the beginning of the song, and recreate the loop all through the song, effectively making a basic instrumental and use it the same way as above to cancel out most of the music and leave just the voices.

authentic · « **Reply #4 on:** June 16, 2005, 10:55:33 PM »

wow thank you very much, it makes sense, except im hoping this isnt only done on turntables.

J2K · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2005, 03:27:24 AM »

If you've got the instrumental for one song and the acapella for another Nero soundtrax can mix them together.

Trauma-san · « **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2005, 04:23:05 AM »

Quote from: AuThenTic on June 16, 2005, 10:55:33 PM

wow thank you very much, it makes sense, except im hoping this isnt only done on turntables.

No, you'd have to do it in a music editor.

Elevz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2005, 04:50:13 AM »

Quote from: Trauma on June 16, 2005, 09:22:25 PM

If you were REALLY good, you could take a loop of the beat from the beginning of the song, and recreate the loop all through the song, effectively making a basic instrumental and use it the same way as above to cancel out most of the music and leave just the voices.

Now what if the song has a well structured instrumental... Most instrumentals these days don't just loop 4 seconds of a beat for 4 minutes. That's gonna be a problem.

There is some software that can take the acapella out of songs, GoldWave for example does it, but that's FAR from working properly. Not even worth checking out. It might work for dance music, but it's a mission impossible when it comes to hiphop beats.

Trauma-san · « **Reply #8 on:** June 17, 2005, 07:15:47 PM »

^ I'm not saying it would work perfect, but most songs do base the entire beat off a loop, it'd at least subtract that loop out and leave you with everyting else. Still better than nothing.