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July 28, 2023
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Need Help with Audio Separation

  • July 28, 2023
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Hello Adobe Audition community!

I hope you're all doing well. I'm currently working on a project involving an old VHS video that I've digitized on my PC. The video and audio are combined into one file, and my goal is to separate the vocals from the instruments in the audio. However, I'm encountering difficulties, particularly when using the audio after editing it in Audition on Moises App.

Here's a summary of my situation:

  • I have an old VHS video recorded digitally on my PC.
  • The video and audio are combined into one file.

My objectives:

  1. Separate the vocals from the instruments in the audio file.
  2. Edit the separated audio in Adobe Audition for further enhancement.
  3. Utilize the edited audio in Moises App for additional processing.

Specific issue:

After editing the audio in Adobe Audition and using it in Moises App, the output doesn't meet my expectations. The separation quality seems to degrade, and the extracted instrumental sounds less clear than anticipated.

I'm reaching out to this supportive community to seek advice, guidance, or alternative methods for audio separation in Adobe Audition. Additionally, if any of you have experience with integrating Audition-edited audio into Moises App for further processing, I would greatly appreciate your insights.

If you've successfully accomplished similar tasks or have any knowledge of plugins, settings, or workflows that could aid me in achieving a high-quality audio separation, please share your expertise.

Thank you so much for your time and assistance. I'm eager to learn from your experiences and overcome this obstacle to create an impressive audio track from this old video.

Best regards, MarsEverythingTech

2 replies

Spamhunter
Inspiring
July 29, 2023

I believe that the way AI works, by repeated iteration + comparison, it is the only way this could be done effectively.

The only one I've tried - https://vocalremover.org/ - wasn't great, but they will be getting better all the time. Give it a shot & let us know.

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 29, 2023

Never heard about https://vocalremover.org/. Thanks for info. May this also can be effective  but not sure for your task Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio

Spamhunter
Inspiring
July 29, 2023

That looks good, thanks.

All it needs now is for Adobe to offer it as a plugin.

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2023
Participating Frequently
July 28, 2023

Unfortunately, these methods didn't work. 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2023

The reason for that, I'm afraid, is twofold: Firstly, Audition doesn't have the tools to do this (it's a rather specialised tool you need to do it - something like Melodyne might help) but just as importantly, to do this at all (and even then it's not very good) you need a reasonable-quality original. An old VHS video does not remotely qualify.

 

Don't be fooled by the things you saw on CSI - they were all pretty much faked. What you are trying to achieve is like trying to unbake a fruit cake. You might get a few raisins out, but you are still going to be left with a heck of a lot of inseperable cake mix...