Sound Forge 6.0 question

[Delorean]

Is there a way in sound forge to take out the instrumentals in a music file?

Example - I want to make an acapella.

 

[Forfit]

I am positive that you cannot remove any instruments in soundforge. This is because the mp3 (or whatever format) is already mixed down. If you had Sonar, protools, or cakewalk with the WAV file of the song that hasn't been mixed down yet, then you could extract the voice, or the instruments.

 

In other words, you must work at the recording company or be the producer of the record and have access to the master recordings.

 

And if you could extract the instruments, the quality of sound would most likely be degraded tremendously.

[Bond996]

 

I am positive that you cannot remove any instruments in soundforge. This is because the mp3 (or whatever format) is already mixed down. If you had Sonar, protools, or cakewalk with the WAV file of the song that hasn't been mixed down yet, then you could extract the voice, or the instruments.

 

In other words, you must work at the recording company or be the producer of the record and have access to the master recordings.

 

And if you could extract the instruments, the quality of sound would most likely be degraded tremendously.

Exactly. Just like an image, you can't just 'remove' an element without subtracting from the others. It would be possible to adjust the channels in the file so that the instrumental range was non-existant, but that would warp the vocals.

 

But if you read the other topic you'd know this

[Forfit]

I am positive that you cannot remove any instruments in soundforge. This is because the mp3 (or whatever format) is already mixed down. If you had Sonar, protools, or cakewalk with the WAV file of the song that hasn't been mixed down yet, then you could extract the voice, or the instruments.

 

In other words, you must work at the recording company or be the producer of the record and have access to the master recordings.

 

And if you could extract the instruments, the quality of sound would most likely be degraded tremendously.

Exactly. Just like an image, you can't just 'remove' an element without subtracting from the others. It would be possible to adjust the channels in the file so that the instrumental range was non-existant, but that would warp the vocals.

 

But if you read the other topic you'd know this

Now that i read your post, it made me remember the other thing i wanted to say, which you basically already stated.

 

I think of it as like a PSD file in photoshop, all of the images are layered, and in Sonar the instruments are also layered, until you mix them down, (which is like taking an image from PSD to JPG) then it becomes one file, and soundforge can only recognize it as stereo, or mono.

[Bond996]

I am positive that you cannot remove any instruments in soundforge. This is because the mp3 (or whatever format) is already mixed down. If you had Sonar, protools, or cakewalk with the WAV file of the song that hasn't been mixed down yet, then you could extract the voice, or the instruments.

 

In other words, you must work at the recording company or be the producer of the record and have access to the master recordings.

 

And if you could extract the instruments, the quality of sound would most likely be degraded tremendously.

Exactly. Just like an image, you can't just 'remove' an element without subtracting from the others. It would be possible to adjust the channels in the file so that the instrumental range was non-existant, but that would warp the vocals.

 

But if you read the other topic you'd know this

Now that i read your post, it made me remember the other thing i wanted to say, which you basically already stated.

 

I think of it as like a PSD file in photoshop, all of the images are layered, and in Sonar the instruments are also layered, until you mix them down, (which is like taking an image from PSD to JPG) then it becomes one file, and soundforge can only recognize it as stereo, or mono.

Exactly. It merges things together, so that anything hidden by something else becomes part of it or creates a border with it. It makes it really hard to take stuff out and have the whole thing.