If you're looking for a way to turn this... (music with vocals) into this... (music with
vocals removed) To create your own Karaoke tracks or something of that nature.
Or maybe you're wanting to remove explicit lyrics from a song so rather than hearing
this... (song with explicit lyrics 'bleeped' out) You hear something more like this...
(song with explicit lyrics removed) Or if there's any other reason you want to remove
or separate the vocal track from it's accompaniment then you've found the right video.
Now let's get started.
To do this there's a couple things we're going to need.
First we obviously need a copy of the song we want to remove the vocal track from, some
audio editing software and a computer with a connection to the internet.
As for the song... that's totally on you, whether you want to buy it on CD and rip it
or just purchase it digitally and download it.
As for the audio editing software I recommend an application called Audacity.
Audacity is a free to use, open source audio editing application with a lot of great features.
To download Audacity you'll want to go to audacityteam.org and click the 'Download Audacity'
button and install the program to your computer.
Now there is a way to use Audacity to remove the vocals from a song, but that's not what
I'm going to be using Audacity for in this video.
There's a much easier way to do it and in my experience this other way actually produces
better results too.
Now in our web browser we're going to type in splitter.ai and hit enter.
This is a free to use service that uses Artificial Intelligence to separate the vocals from the
other audio in a song.
Over here on the left they have two different models for you to choose from.
There's the 5 Stem Model that will separate your song into separate Vocal, Bass, Drum,
Piano and Other tracks.
Or the 2 Stem Model which simply separates the Vocals from the music.
For this video I'm going to keep things nice and simple and select the 2 Stem Model and
then drag my song I want to split into this 'Drop Song Here' field.
And once I do that Splitter.ai will start working it's magic.
You'll see this page which encourages you to donate to the team to help them keep Splitter
free to use and if you feel so inclined you are of course welcome to do so.
Depending on how long it takes to split your song you'll either see this page which says
“We're working on it...
This shouldn't take more than a minute.”
or you'll just see the 'Drop Song Here' field we saw before.
You'll then want to click on the 'My Uploads' button here... and again you'll either see
this which means the split is in progress or you'll see your finished split song all
ready for download.
Once your song is ready, click on the little download icon and now you can choose to download
the separated Vocal and Instrumental tracks.
In your download folder you should see something like this; one of them saying accompaniment
and the other vocals.
If you're wanting to create a karaoke track or something using just the music the only
track you need to worry about is the accompaniment track.
Just for fun, let's pull both into Audacity now and see how it turned out.
(song plays but now I can mute and unmute the vocal or the music) Now it's not 100%
perfect.
There is a little bit of weirdness in the accompaniment track but overall I feel it
sounds really good and it's ready for you to take into whatever video editing or other
software you use to create your Karaoke or other audio track.
If you're not happy with the way the accompaniment track from the 2 Stem Model sounds try using
the 5 stem model.
I feel like it seems to do a little better job of isolating just the music; the only
drawback, I guess I'd say to doing this, is you then have to take all those individual
tracks into some audio editing software, like Audacity, and then mix them down to a single
track.
For those that are wanting to edit the vocals on a track, this next bit is for you.
In the opening of this video I played this clip from the Limp Bizkit song Rollin' (song
with explicit lyrics 'bleeped' out).
As I'm sure you can tell those bleeps were some F-bombs that I censored to help keep
this video PG... to edit explicit or otherwise questionable lyrics out of a song we first
need to split the vocal from the music using splitter.ai like we already talked about.
And then we're going to open up Audacity and bring in our split vocal and accompaniment
tracks.
On the Vocal track I'm going to click the 'solo' button here so I only hear the vocals
and then I'm going to go to the parts of the song where the explicit or questionable lyrics
are located, highlight what I want to remove and then press this button here which is to
silence the selected audio section.
Once I've done that I can click the solo button again to bring the music back in with it and
here's what it sounds like now.
(song with explicit lyrics removed) Almost sounds professional doesn't it?
Once you're happy with your edit you'll want to click 'file', then 'export' and then choose
the audio format you want to output it as.
Select where you want to output it to and name the file and click 'Save'.
Audacity will warn you your tracks are going to be mixed down into a single stereo track
to which you click 'OK' and then you can enter any metadata you want including the artist
name, track title, track number, etc.
Once you're done you can click 'OK' and Audacity will export the file and uh... that's that.
So now that you have acquired this new found knowledge what do you plan to do with it?
I'm curious to hear what ideas and projects you guys plan to use this with.
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Thanks for watching, I hope you have a great day annndd... uh...
We'll see ya later.