Acapella extractor

Drop a song to isolate the vocals, or select a file. It opens in the separation tool, ready to run.

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How to isolate the vocals from a song

An acapella is the vocal with the band taken away. The same separation that makes an instrumental makes this, read from the other side: the vocal stem is the track you keep, and it comes back the full length of the song, silent where nobody is singing, so it drops onto a grid at bar one.

  1. Add your song: Drop a WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC or OGG. A lossless file gives the cleanest vocal, but an MP3 works.
  2. The vocal is isolated: BS-RoFormer separates the vocal from the drums, bass, guitar, piano and the rest, and lays each on its own track.
  3. Download the acapella: The vocal is the first file in the results, a WAV the full length of the song. The other five stems are below it.

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Questions about the acapella extractor?

We have answers.

How do I get an acapella from a song?

Drop the song on this page. It is separated into stems, and the vocal stem is the acapella: it is the first file in the results.

Is it free?

Yes, to start. A free account comes with 120 credits a month and separating a song is 20, with no card needed to start. Pro has 2,000 a month.

Will the acapella be dry?

No. It carries the reverb and delay the vocal had in the mix. A separator can take the band away from the voice; it cannot take the room away from it.

Can I separate the lead vocal from the backing vocals?

Yes, as a second step. The vocal stem holds every voice. A voice split on that stem returns each voice as its own track.

Can I get the vocal melody as MIDI?

Yes. The vocal stem can be transcribed, and the melody comes back as notes you can edit or give to another instrument.

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  • Full length, in time

    The vocal stem is not trimmed to the sung phrases. It runs from the first sample of the song to the last, so it lines up with the original and with every other stem. For a remix that means the acapella goes in at bar one and stays locked, with no nudging phrase by phrase.

  • Lead, doubles and harmonies together

    Everything sung is in the one vocal stem: the lead, its doubles and the backing vocals. When you want only the lead, or each harmony on its own, the voice split takes that stem and deals it into two to eight separate voices.

  • The effects come with the voice

    Reverb, delay and tuning that were printed on the vocal in the mix are part of the vocal now, so the acapella sounds like the record, not like the dry take from the booth. That is usually what a remix wants. It is also why an isolated vocal cannot be made drier than the mix it came from.

Acapella extractor, vocal isolator: one job

An acapella extractor, an acapella maker, a vocal isolator, a vocal extractor and a way to isolate or extract the vocals from a song all name this one separation. The other half of the same split, the song without its voice, is the vocal remover.

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