Sunday, April 02, 2006
When the Rubber Hits The Road
OK. This is it.
We are going to start blogging about different programs and how to use them.
The first program I would like to talk about is Sound Forge which as many of you might know is from the Sony Family of Products (which includes Vegas 6.0, Acid Pro 6.0, and CD Architect 5.2)
Sound Forge is primarily known as an audio editing program. But here is a neat trick you can use to alter a song from a CD. This will create a vocal less track for whatever purposes you have in mind.
One you have Sound Forge open go to FILE and select EXTRACT AUDIO FROM CD. A box will pop up which show all the tracks on the CD contains.
Click on the song you want and then click OK. Pretty easy so far.
Soon the track will appear on the screen and you can push the play button to listen to it first (Play uses the universal right arrow as it appears on every CD player or DVD machine).
Next look for PROCESS and from the pull down menu click CHANNEL CONVERTER.
In the Preset box click down to the last line and select STEREO TO STEREO - VOCAL CUT (REMOVE CENTER MATERIAL). Once you click OK it will process the track.
Depending on how the song was mixed and background vocals, you can have anything from a totally clean track to a hint of vocals than can be sung over or used for other purposes.
If you have other favorite uses for Sound Forge be sure to include them here :)
For more info on Sound Forge visit
elvistech.com or Sony Media Software
We are going to start blogging about different programs and how to use them.
The first program I would like to talk about is Sound Forge which as many of you might know is from the Sony Family of Products (which includes Vegas 6.0, Acid Pro 6.0, and CD Architect 5.2)
Sound Forge is primarily known as an audio editing program. But here is a neat trick you can use to alter a song from a CD. This will create a vocal less track for whatever purposes you have in mind.
One you have Sound Forge open go to FILE and select EXTRACT AUDIO FROM CD. A box will pop up which show all the tracks on the CD contains.
Click on the song you want and then click OK. Pretty easy so far.
Soon the track will appear on the screen and you can push the play button to listen to it first (Play uses the universal right arrow as it appears on every CD player or DVD machine).
Next look for PROCESS and from the pull down menu click CHANNEL CONVERTER.
In the Preset box click down to the last line and select STEREO TO STEREO - VOCAL CUT (REMOVE CENTER MATERIAL). Once you click OK it will process the track.
Depending on how the song was mixed and background vocals, you can have anything from a totally clean track to a hint of vocals than can be sung over or used for other purposes.
If you have other favorite uses for Sound Forge be sure to include them here :)
For more info on Sound Forge visit
elvistech.com or Sony Media Software
