[ardour-users] Vocal removal

[DA Forsyth]

On 17 Mar 2007 at 15:15, Brett Clark wrote masterfully:

> Hello,
>   I want to start by saying that i realize that Ardour is a very
>   powerful package for multitrack recording and there are many plugins
>   for doing serious audio work with it.  Normally, i use Ardour for
>   serious work, and its capabilities are the reason that i was
>   approached for this next task.  My daughters dance class is working
>   on a particular song that they all really enjoy.  Unfortunately, it
>   appears that many artists today attempt to push things by adding in
>   unecessary vulgarity at some point or another in a song.  Hence, i
>   have been approached to see if i can use my gear (aka Ardour) to
>   remove some vocals within a song while keeping the background music.
>    I havent found any LADSPA plugins that do this.  Does anyone know
>   of such a plugin?  Any other ideas or suggestions are also very
>   welcome.

if you can match the bit of nasty vocals with another segment of the 
song that has the same music, you can replace the bad bit with a 
repeat of a good bit.


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