How to remove the singer's voice in Audio files?

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I want to remove the singer's voice in audio or video files, remain the background voice of the audio.

How can I implement this functionality?
Could someone give me some advice?

Thanks a lot.

Posted 21-Feb-11 21:47pm

afgkidy

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afgkidy 22-Feb-11 21:57pm

yes, I have an audio file with a singer over a backing track and I want to isolate either the singers voice or the backing track.

afgkidy 23-Feb-11 0:36am

accroding to answer 1&2:
1, we know that most of mixed records can not be separate(singers voice and backing track), but several can be separate.
my question is, which format files can be separate?
I searched on google and other site. find that CD was records nicely, it can be done plssible.
what about those format files, such as .mp3, .wma, .aac, .rm, .rmvb etc...

Dylan Morley 23-Feb-11 6:33am

File format doesn't matter. Whether it's wav, mp3, wma or *anything else*, if the file has been mixed down you can't simply grab a certain part out of it, you're left with isolating audio within a frequency range. That's all you can do!

Why not download something like Reason (http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/) and have a look at some of the demo songs. This will give you an idea about audio mixing, individual tracks and a final 'mix down'

afgkidy 23-Feb-11 21:06pm

Thanks.
now, my question is, if I have a audio file, maybe it is wav, mp3, wma or other format file. whether it has been mixed down that we can not grab a certain part out of it or it has been mixed nicely that we can separate it. how do we know that?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-21T22:09:00

I don't think you can do it — in general case with somewhat acceptable quality.
I would be quite thankful is anyone proves me wrong, but will be extremely surprised it is possible.

Just one notes: masters of scat singing can mimic an instrument amazingly well; even a human can hardly tell the difference. Even if such voice can be recognized, where should it go: to the minus phonogram or filtered out?

[EDIT]
I'm updating my explanation based on the comment by Emilio. He is absolutely right.
The correctness of this task is the same as correctness of the inversion of the direction of time from thermodynamic stand point: previous state does exist in principle, but it cannot be recovered based on the information of the later state if entropy was increased (it can only increase with time or stay the same).

Consider the audio was nicely recorded in several separate channels, so the human voice channels are separate. This is how good recording is done in a good studio. Now, for a consumer product, all channels are mixed together in one or just two stereo channels. This is a really big increase of entropy of information. The solution is to restore the records of each recorded channel which; let's say, these records do physically exit at that time, so the solution exists and can be validated using that past records. But exact solution of this task based on already-mixed records only would be a work against entropy, which is impossible theoretically.

—SA

Dylan Morley · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-21T22:22:00

If I understand correctly, you have an audio file with a singer over a backing track & you want to isolate either the singers voice or the backing track?

You can't really do this to a high quality....even with professional applications such as Cubase or Logic, it's extremely difficult.

All you can do if you've got a stereo audio mix is isolate certain frequencies and either boost or reduce them.

For example, you would need to determine the singers Vocal range[^] which should be between 80Hz to 1100Hz

You could then set an extremely narrow filter over the frequency range that would cut out all the other audio.

While you get a result like this, it's not very good. Some of the original harmonics before the filter was applied always remain, and the filter itself will affect the audio you've isolated.

Basically, you want to get the eggs back after you've baked the cake!

Linky, found this

http://www.musicmorpher.com/free-tutorials/voice-extractor.htm[^]

That's all they're doing there, setting a couple of band pass filters to narrow the frequency range

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