Isolating Vocals

[jsplayya134]

Hi All,

I am a new user of Mixcraft 8. I have little experience, but like to remix music as a hobby. I assume this has been asked a bunch already, but what is the best way to isolate vocals in Mixcraft 8? For example, I would like to lay rap verses over my created beats without the original rap song's background music included.

Thanks!

Jimmy

[Mark Bliss]

Hello and welcome Jimmy!

I assume this has been asked a bunch already

Actully not really, as this is a twist. Usually people want to remove the vocals and use the music.

Either way, most methods for doing this kind of thing work pretty poorly IMO, and the modern software purported to "work better" shall we say- is pretty expensive, and I have no first hand experience with anything like that.

[Ian Craig]

Presumably that was phrased wrongly Mark and the vocals need to be removed (I could be wrong).
Hi Jimmy,
if you want to remove vocals download vocalzap by Acoustica (like Mixcraft) http://www.vocalzap.com/
If you want to remove the background and leave the vocals it gets more complicated (probably using phase cancellation to reverse the process using multiple copies to cancel out identical signal components) I'll try some things and get back to you.

[Mark Bliss]

Yeah, I may have misunderstood.
Even if so, results vary. Depends a lot on the nature of the original recording.

[DaddyV]

Easy, get an interface. Plug in a microphone. Plug in a set of headphones or earbuds. Turn off your speakers and everything else in the room that makes noise. Create a track for the vocal and hit record. Your experience may vary? Have fun....there are no rules except don't clip the wave