Remove the music and leave the voice from a music file

[Guest]

Hi,

I wan't just to know how can I remove the music and leave only the voice, with Adobe Audition Cs6

Please.

[Bob Howes]

Try the "Centre Channel Extractor" under the Effects/Stereo Imagery menu.  Note that, for this to work at all, your source file has to be a stereo mix

However, it has to be said that results will vary from impressively good to totally useless depending on how your source material was mixed.  There's no consistent way to achieve this except going back and getting access to the original, unmixed tracks.

[Guest]

Thank you Bob,

It didn't work, I can't believe Adobe hasn't yet find a way to do that!

Thank you Bob for your support.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

hajdha wrote:

It didn't work, I can't believe Adobe hasn't yet find a way to do that! 

Hmm... to a large extent, we're talking about defying the Laws of Physics here. Audition goes further in this direction than any other software I'm aware of does, but there are distinct limits - partly caused by things like reverberation. Even if you can get all of the direct signal out of a particular stereo location, then any reverb added across the whole field will still be there - and, in the nature of all reverberation, that's completely unremovable. A bit like trying to unbake a cake back to the raw ingredients - ever seen anybody do that?

[Guest]

SteveG(AudioMasters) wrote:

A bit like trying to unbake a cake back to the raw ingredients - ever seen anybody do that?

Yes, if the cake is a stereo mix, according to Bob

Thank you for information SteveG.

[Bob Howes]

I used to bake all my cakes in stereo but had to stop because I was putting on too much weight....

Steve's right.  Removing voice or music from a mixed track is very much akin to trying to restore a cake to its raw ingredients.

The system Audition (and other software trying to do similar things) uses requires a stereo track because it uses the fact that USUALLY the vocal is panned to the centre with other instruments panned elsewhere in the stereo field.  This allows neat tricks involving the stereo phase to eliminate or accentuate parts of the mix.

However, if other things are panned centrally, they get treated like the vocal--or, if the reverb on the vocal is done in stereo, then it does the opposite to what happens to the voice.

For this reason, trying to "unmake the cake" is a very hit and miss operation.

[Guest]

I think I will remove both voice & music in the parts where is music.

Thank you Bob again for your support.