I needed an authentic instrumental version for a thing, so er...

[Nakatomi]

There's a FREE program called ISSE (http://isse.sourceforge.net/) - interactive source separation editor which unfortunately was my only route to getting a reasonable quality instrumental of Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. I tried doing phase cancellation with the original & an acapella but it just wasn't happening (the acapella was a slightly different speed). Doing funky stuff with the stereo image wasn't a goer either because of the amount of stereo reverb on Whitney's voice.. so...

About 12 hours later...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8y3h5pifhi2kar5/whiney.mp3?dl=0

[rth_discos]

Wow!

That has got to be the best vocal removing pieces of software I've ever heard!

[Nakatomi]

Wow!

That has got to be the best vocal removing pieces of software I've ever heard!

Yeah well, there was a lot of manual trial & error tracing the path of Ms Houston's voice, so there's quite a lot of skill involved in spotting patterns.

There's a much more automatic program for this kind of thing called ADX TRAX Pro, but it's only for Mac users - and it's expensive.

[rth_discos]

I couldn't resist downloading the software and seeing what was involved.

And involved is the word! I imagine that was quite a time consuming task.

Was this for a client out of interest?

I ask as an audio production service would have charged about £500 to do that piece of work!

[Nakatomi]

I couldn't resist downloading the software and seeing what was involved.

And involved is the word! I imagine that was quite a time consuming task.

Was this for a client out of interest?

I ask as an audio production service would have charged about £500 to do that piece of work!

No, it's for a thing. That thing being, sometimes couples want to make an entrance of themsel.. er I mean make a grand entrance, so I use bits of music to augment the moment a smidge. In the past I've used a DIY instrumental edit of Beyonce's Crazy in Love among others (that being a very popular choice with it being so fanfarey) & I've had designs on using this Whitney track for the same kind of thing.

I'm currently building up a library of handy little bits of utility music.

[Nakatomi]

Btw for one reason or another I've always wanted to have an instrumental version of this track. Always. Like since 1987 :rofl: