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Does anyone know if any of the Adobe suite products have a tool that would enable vocal isolation from a mixed .mp3 or .aiff file? As in one taken from a CD.
I'm not trying to pirate anything musically, I'm just interested in trying to get rid of surrounding noise to get a sort of a cappella sound.

Thanks!

This is fucking bizarre cause I was thinking about this today and if I could do it in Pro Tools 8. I know Liquid_Drummer does isolation tracks, maybe he'll pop in to help you (us).

Haha, good timing then.
I have Soundbooth, After Effects, and those programs, but once a track is mixed to the master it's flattened out. All I've been able to do is separate the stereo layers to L & R mono. Which does no good at all. SB doesn't even have a manual equalizer. Or a reverse feature. It's basically crap.

Rhiannon wrote:Haha, good timing then.
I have Soundbooth, After Effects, and those programs, but once a track is mixed to the master it's flattened out. All I've been able to do is separate the stereo layers to L & R mono. Which does no good at all. SB doesn't even have a manual equalizer. Or a reverse feature. It's basically crap.

I'm not at all familiar with stuff like that outside of Pro Tools and a tiny bit of Logic, but I do think a general principle for isolating the vocal might involve side chaining an EQ, maybe with a compressor on it? I quickly google searched it today and skimmed, but I just didn't have time to fool w/ it today

Ehwmatt wrote: I do think a general principle for isolating the vocal might involve side chaining an EQ, maybe with a compressor on it?

That was the basic idea I got too. I just don't know what platform I need. And I'm not going to buy something like Audition, which I know would work.

i don't think adobe has anything that can do this. try DLing this free sound editor called audacity. it's got an option to reduce noise. i've never tried isolating vocals, but i would think cranking up the midrange & attenuating everything else might work.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

cyndy! wrote:i don't think adobe has anything that can do this. try DLing this free sound editor called audacity. it's got an option to reduce noise. i've never tried isolating vocals, but i would think cranking up the midrange & attenuating everything else might work.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Thank you much... it's worked pretty good so far. I've eliminated most of the background track. Good find!