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Trying to pull vocals out of a track. What I have been doing is taking a measure without the vocal, inverting the sound in Soundforge, and then pasting the inverted sound atop the measure containing the vocal. In essence, this just erases whatever is contained in both measures, leaving what has been added into the second.

I would like to be able to remove Soundforge from this process and am wondering if there is an option in Live 5.0 to invert the audio of a particular sample or region.

If this makes sense to anyone, would love some help, thanks.

Try the "Utility" plugin, there's two buttons for inverting each stereo channel.

rhanson187 wrote:Trying to pull vocals out of a track. What I have been doing is taking a measure without the vocal, inverting the sound in Soundforge, and then pasting the inverted sound atop the measure containing the vocal. In essence, this just erases whatever is contained in both measures, leaving what has been added into the second.

does this actualy work for you? i've tried before and had no success

The phase left and right functions can isolate some sounds pretty well on some songs, worth a try at least.

It won't work in all likelyhood. The measures would be have to be sample accurate copies of each other (except for the vocal, of course), cut at exactly the same start sample. Otherwise you would get a lot of residual frequencies/noise. That might be a cool effect in itself, but it won't get you a useful acapella.