Backing vocal separation

Drop a song or a vocal stack to split its voices, or select a file. It opens in the separation tool, ready to run.

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How to separate backing vocals from the lead

A vocal remover stops at "the vocals", and on a record that is three or four people, or one person four times. Backing vocal separation is the step after: the vocal stem dealt into its voices, so the lead, the third above it and the low harmony each have a fader.

  1. Add a song or a vocal stack: Drop a WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC or OGG: a full mix, or a vocal bounce if you already have one.
  2. The vocals are isolated: From a full song, BS-RoFormer separates the vocal stem from the band. A vocal-only file skips this.
  3. Split the stack into voices: Say whether the file is a full song or just the vocals, and how many voices to split into: two to eight. Each comes back as its own file, fifteen seconds a pass.

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Questions about the backing vocal separator?

We have answers.

How do I separate backing vocals from the lead vocal?

Drop the song here. The vocals are isolated from the band, then a voice split deals that stem into its voices, two to eight of them. The lead and each harmony land on separate tracks.

Can I remove only the backing vocals?

Yes. After the split each voice is its own file, so keep the lead and leave the harmonies out, or the reverse.

How many voices can it split?

Two to eight. You choose the number, so a duet, a three-part stack and an eight-voice group are all the same tool.

How long a passage can it split?

Fifteen seconds a pass, today. A longer file comes back as its first fifteen seconds, and the tool says so. For a whole song, run it a passage at a time: trim to the chorus or the phrase you want and drop that.

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. Isolating the vocals and splitting them into voices are two separations.

Can I get each harmony as notes?

Yes. A vocal stack can be transcribed as an ensemble, which writes one part per voice.

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  • The split follows who is singing what

    Harmonies cannot be told apart by sound alone, because they are the same kind of instrument. So the stack is transcribed first, as a chart of which voice sings which notes, and that chart steers the separator: one mask per voice. The lead is one of the voices that comes back, not a special case.

  • What you can do with separate voices

    Leave the lead out and keep the harmonies for a backing-vocal track. Turn up the harmony that was mixed too low. Retune one voice without touching the others. Or read each voice out as its own line of notes, to learn the arrangement or re-record it.

  • Unisons and doubles

    Because the split follows the notes, two voices singing the same notes are the hardest thing to pull apart: a doubled lead comes back as one voice, not two. Parts that move in harmony separate best, and a dry, close stack separates better than one swimming in reverb.

BGV separation, harmony splitter: one job

Backing vocal separation, BGV or BGVX separation, background vocal separation, a vocal harmony separator and a lead and backing vocal splitter all name this one job: a vocal stack dealt into its voices. For a choir in sections, see choir separation.

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