Freeware?

[audionoob]

Is there any free software available that can divide a songs instruments out. Like so you can hear just the guitar or just the bass or just the drums or vocals etc. I doubt a program exists but if one does please let me Kno!

[spam]

No. You can't remove the sugar from an already baked cake, the same as you can't extract individual instruments from a stereo or mono recording. Search these forums for this topic, as it's been covered numerous times.

[TimOBrien]

Stereo file = One left source and one right source spreading waves toward your ears.

How ya gonna separate the waves of any individual instrument??

Can't be done. Computers aren't "magic" or like they are on TV....

[audionoob]

ok thanks for answering my question. I was not sure. I know a guy that works with video clips and has a program that he uses the seperate the different sounds ( background noise, speech etc). I know their different types of files.I was just wondering thanks!

[GZsound]

No. You can't remove the sugar from an already baked cake, the same as you can't extract individual instruments from a stereo or mono recording. Search these forums for this topic, as it's been covered numerous times.

With your permission, I would like to use that analogy.. That's great!

"You can't remove sugar from an already baked cake".. perfect.

We all know you can remove noise, different frequencies, sometimes vocals, etc. but the analogy is just simply right on. You cannot extract a guitar part that is imbedded in the file..easily.

[spam]

Posted by GZsound:
"You can't remove sugar from an already baked cake".. perfect.
Well... as much as I would like to claim credit for that analogy, I can't. I'm pretty sure I've heard something along those lines here.;) But it does make the point and should be easily understood by anyone.

Of course there seems to be a lot of misinformation out there regarding the topic, and we've seen the programs claiming such a magical feat. But I for one have not physically heard any proof!

[MrHope]

The guy who works with video clips can't separate the audio waveforms either. Most likely his software is dealing with separate tracks of multitrack audio, or different audio tracks from different video files.