Removing the vocals from a song is like taking a baked cake and reverting
it into its original ingredients.
That's insane.
And I'm going to teach you how to do that with any song on your Mac.
So whether you want to create a karaoke version of your favorite
song or your own custom remix, then this is the class for you.
That's coming up next on tech talk America.
Hey folks.
And welcome to the class.
I have to tell you folks, I've seen technology, do some pretty crazy
stuff over the years, but this one even blows my mind to separate
the audio of any song on your Mac.
You're going to need two apps.
Now, one of them does require some very minor custom configuration
when you're initially installing it, but Hey, don't worry folks.
That's why you got me.
And I'll walk you through that process in just a moment.
The first app that you're going to need is GarageBand..
Excellent.
That's that app that came with your Mac, but you probably never used it or
maybe even deleted it to free up space.
And Hey, if you did, that's okay.
You can always re download it from the app store on your Mac.
The other app that you're going to need is called MySpleeter.
Now personally, I think My Spleeter sounds like something you pull when
trying to pretend that you're an outdoorsy person when let's face it.
You're not an outdoorsy person, but I digress.
My Spleeter is the Mac version of Spleeter, which is made by the audio
company, Deezer to download My Spleeter
you will find a link to their website in the video description.
From there.
You need to click the link listed here under download, depending on
what operating system you are running.
You may need to change one security setting in order to be able to install it.
So let me take a quick moment to walk you through that process.
When you download My Spleeter, you'll find the DMG file here
in your downloads folder.
When you double click on it, you'll now have to drag this icon
into the applications folder.
At this point, I'll just press command N on my keyboard to open a new finder
window and I'll drag and drop My Spleeter here into the applications folder.
When you go to double click on My Spleeter, you may encounter a warning
screen about installing apps from unknown developers to allow it to install anyways,
let's go to the apple icon at the top left and click on system preferences.
Now let's navigate to security and privacy and make sure that
you're here on the general tab..
To make changes.
I'll need to authenticate by clicking the lock icon and entering
the password to my user account.
Now, just click open anyways, and you'll probably get one more pop up
and all you need to do is click open.
So now if we double click on My Spleeter, it should open.
And as you can see here, it's pretty straightforward.
Just drag the song that you want to separate into input.
Then tell it where you want to save the new files for convenience.
I'll save it to my desktop now, just click "separate."
And depending on how fast your computer is, this process can take
anywhere from several seconds to a minute or two, and just a heads up.
You may get that spinning rainbow pinwheel during this process, but just wait it out.
So after about 30 seconds or so My Spleeter has created
a folder on my desktop.
If we open it up, you'll see it has separated, everything into five tracks,
bass, drums, other which includes things like synthesizers, piano, and vocals.
At this point, let's fire up garage band and create a brand new empty project.
On this next screen, let's select the microphone icon.
Now I'm going to bring up my finder window, highlight these files and drag
and drop all of them into my project.
Just be sure when you go to do this, that you drag them towards
the beginning of the track.
If you're not familiar with garage band, this icon right here will mute any track.
So let's start by muting every track except for the drums.
And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to slowly add the other tracks back in,
just so that you can get the full effect.
The song that I'm going to use for this demonstration is one that
always gets me going at the gym.
That would be "Cold Heart" by Dua Lipa and Elton John.
Now for copyright reasons, I have to be really careful about how long I play
this song during this presentation.
So just know when we get to the part where you hear the whole song, it's
going to be really, really short because you don't want to piss off Elton John!
Pretty cool, right?
Look, this software is not perfect, but I think you will agree that it
absolutely qualifies as buckets of fun.
So now that you know how to use it, I want you to do me a favor and let
me know in the comments section, what is the first song that you are
going to use with this software?
And also, how are you going to use it?
And if alcohol is going to be involved, then you absolutely
need to buy me a drink.
Venmo?
Paypal?
It's all good!
Bags of cash!
Gold!
Hey, one last thing before we go, I want to give you something to think over.
I want you to, to think about your relationship with the
technology in your life.
Okay.
Think about it.
Like it were an actual relationship.
Would you think of it like a positive relationship, like Lucy and Ricky?
Well, on camera, not necessarily off-camera or would it be maybe
more of a challenging relationship?
Like, oh, I don't know.
One of the things that I've done over the last 10 years when I'm not making
video content here on YouTube is I do.
Private tech lessons with people.
And I've actually lately come to refer to as tech therapy.
You know, we, we all have our little problems with technology and we need
someone who can be there to help resolve those problems and help offer solutions.
And I love being able to do that with people.
If you'd like to sign up for a little tech therapy session with David,
go ahead and visit my website at techtalkamerica.com/PrivateLessons.
Thank you so much for watching everyone.
This is David A.
Cox with tech talk America class dismissed.