Extracting vocals

[CyberpunkColt]

Is there a way to take out vocals from a song without the instrumental? A lot of songs don't have instrumentals and therefore vocals need to be taken out some other way for a remix.

[Sugarholik]

Is there a way to take out vocals from a song without the instrumental?

Posted this somewhere:

Isolating vocals is based on extracting center panned audio from a song. That's where the vocals mostly are. Everything else tends to be panned a bit left or right. However, this will never give you perfectly clean vocals. Mostly you end up having bass in there too which can be filtered of course, but sometimes it's completely impossible to isolate vocals decently.

So... How can we do it?
For pony acapellas (vocal only) you can go to 'Sharing Is Magic' forum. All the acapellas from the show should be there.
If you're going for something else you can try googling, or http://www.acapellas4u.co.uk/ or try using Kn0ckout VST plugin.

people usually use a program called Melodyne for that.

Dafuq? Melodyne does that too?

[bartekko]

people usually use a program called Melodyne for that.

Dafuq? Melodyne does that too?[/quote]
Nope. Definitely not these guys, at least

[JoshMono]

reallly?
I've heard so much for people using melodyne to extract vocals.

(aka just cutting out other frequencies and taking just the vocal segments)

Melodyne can't extract vocals, but it has awesome vocal editing features. Also, cutting out other frequencies is unreliable, but can work. I know "Extra Boy" can do this (remove or isolate vocals) on this principle, and it does it pretty well.

Another technique is demonstrated in this video. This is for vocal removal only. It doesn't work for all songs, but give it a try! Link.

[Spirit]

Melodyne can "kinda" be used to extract vocals
ive seen it done, and ive done it myself using it
Im not gonna lie though, you need a lossless copy of what you want to extract, and then hope that theres not too much going on in the song, it takes BARE TIME to do it
Melodyne is beautiful for glitching and pitching vocals though (even though i dont really do much gltich)