VocalRemovalPlugins

FromAudacityWiki
Thispagedescribestechniqueswhichonsomestereotracksmayallowyoutoremoveor
isolatevocals(orotherpartsofarecording)fromtherest.
Audacityhasabuiltineffectforvocalremoval:Effect>VocalRemover
ReductionandIsolation...seethispage
(http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocal_reduction_and_isolation.html)in
theManual.
Thereisnouniversal,reliablewayofdoingthiswithouthavingtheoriginalmultitrack
recordings.Differenttrackswillrequiredifferenttechniquestoachievemaximumpossible
attenuationorisolation.Thiswilldependonwherethevocalsarepositionedinthestereo
field,andontheirfrequency(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_frequency)content
comparedtotherestoftheaudio.
AswellastheabovemethodsupportedinAudacityitselftherearevariousthirdpartypluginsthatcan
beusedtotryandremoveorisolatevocals.

Contents
1WindowsVSTPlugins
2OSXPlugins
3LinuxPlugins
4PluginInstallation

WindowsVSTPlugins
ThereareseveralWindowsVSTpluginsthatcanbeusedinAudacityforvocalremovalandisolation.
ForinstallationofVSTplugins,seebelow.
kn0ck0ut(http://web.archive.org/web/20130929114530/http://www.freewebs.com/st3pan0va/)
(free,nolongerunderdevelopment)cansometimesremovevocalswheretheyarenotcenter
pannedbutratherdifferentinfrequencymakeupcomparedtothenonvocalpartsofthetrack.It
worksontwomonotracks(splitfromastereotrackandmademonoasabove)byextractingthe
rightchannelfrequenciesfromthelefthandfrequencies,leavingthe"result"intheformerleft
channel.Alternatively,ifyourvocalsarecenterpanned,thisplugincanoftenmakeagoodjobof
isolatingthemfromeverythingelse.
Voicetrap(http://www.cloneensemble.com/vt_main.htm)isacommercialpluginfeaturingcenter
channelremovalbyfrequencybasedandcepstralmethods(thatis,notasimplesubtractionofone
channelfromtheother).Ithasanadvantageoverkn0ck0utofprovidingstereooutputforthe
"vocalsremoved"track,aswellasofferingisolationofcenterpannedcontent.Thereisademo
versionwitha"mild"vocalremovalsetting(butnoisolationability)thatworksinAudacity.

Brainworxhaveafree(registrationrequired)VSTpluginbx_solo(http://www.brainworx
music.de/en/plugins/bx_solo)thatletsyousolomidandsidechannelssoprovidesopportunity
forvocalisolationorremovalintherightcircumstances.
ThereisacommercialVSTplugincalledExtraBoyPro
(http://www.elevayta.net/product13.htm)whichoffersusefulfunctionalityforthoseinterested
invocalremoval,isolationormodificationofthedifferentcomponentsofanaudiotrack.This
claimstobecapableofisolating,removing,suppressingorenhancinganycomponentofastereo
track,basedonitsidentifiedfrequencyandspatial"signature"(componentsareselectedinsidea
"2DMode"spectrogramwindow).Naturallytheauthorpointsoutthattheexactresultsaresubject
totheparticularcharacteristicsofeachtrack.Multiplecomponentsofatrackcanbeprocessed
simultaneously(forexample,toisolatepianoandvocal,orenhancepianoandbass).A14dayfree
trialisavailablewhichperiodicallysilencestheprocessedoutput.

OSXPlugins
ThereisanvoxReducer(http://loudsoftware.com/?page_Request=Products#voxRed)PPCAudio
Unitplugin(14dayfreeevaluation)youcantryincurrentAudacity
(http://web.audacityteam.org/download/mac).ItrequiresMacOSX10.4to10.6(usingRosetta
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_%28software%29)onanIntelMac).ItwillnotworkonOS
X10.7orlaterasthereisnoPPCsupport.
VoxReducerissimilartotheNyquistCenterPanRemoverinthatitaimstoreducethestrengthof
centerpannedvocals,butdiffersinhavingaphaseoffsetadjustmentandasliderforadjustingthe
intensityofthevocalreduction.PlacethevoxReducer.componentineither/Library/Audio/Plug
ins/Componentsor~/Library/Audio/Plugins/Components.
Brainworxhaveafree(registrationrequired)VSTorAudioUnitpluginbx_solo
(http://www.brainworxmusic.de/en/plugins/bx_solo)(downloadlinkhere(https://www.plugin
alliance.com/en/downloads.html#bx_solo))thatletsyousolomidandsidechannelssoprovides
opportunityforvocalisolationorremovalintherightcircumstances.SeevoxReducerabovefor
AudioUnitinstallationorbelowforVSTinstallation.

LinuxPlugins
kn0ck0utLV2(https://github.com/jeremysalwen/kn0ck0utLV2)AporttoLV2
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LV2)ofthenowdiscontinuedkn0ck0utVSTplugin.Itusually
requirescompilingbutyoucanobtainafewkn0ck0utpackagesforUbuntu
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/~dobey/+archive/audiotools/+index?field.series_filter=).

PluginInstallation
ForinstructionsonhowtoloadneweffectsintoAudacitypleaseseethesepagesintheManual:
InstallingVSTEffects(http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/effect_menu.html#VST_effects)
InstallingLV2Effects(http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/effect_menu.html#LV2_effects).
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