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How to Remove Vocals From a Split Track on Acid Music Studio

Acid Music Studio is a digital audio workstation from Sony. With Acid Music Studio, you can record, mix and edit your songs using just your home computer. This eliminates the need to book into an expensive recording studio. The Acid Music Studio interface is intuitively laid out, with separate viewing windows for specific applications. This enables you to keep your screen neat and tidy when working. If you have a vocal you want to remove, due to poor sound, vocalist error or other, creative reasons, you can do so without adversely affecting the remainder of the audio.

Instructions

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      Open Acid Music Studio. In Microsoft Windows, double-click the desktop icon or click "Start," "Programs" and select "Acid Pro Studio" from there. If using a Mac, either click the desktop icon or open the "Applications" folder and launch the program from there. It may take approximately 20 seconds for the program to fully launch. Depending on how you configured Acid Music Studio, it will either open the last edited session or a blank session. If the former happens and it's not the session you want, click "File, " "Open" and select the correct session from there.

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      Click "File" and select "New Audio." This opens a blank channel in the Acid Music Studio interface. You will use this track later to store the cut vocal audio. Since vocal is audio, it's important to open an audio track as opposed to MIDI, to which you can't save audio.

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      Name the new audio track. Double-click on the bottom of the channel strip and type in "cut vocals."

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      Click "Mute" on the channel strip for "cut vocals." This renders all subsequent audio on this channel silent.

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      Click on the left-hand channel strip for vocal track to be cut. This highlights the track and assigns subsequent edits to this audio.

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      Click on time navigation bar at the top of the interface and drag your cursor right to highlight the portion of audio you want to cut.

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      Right-click on the highlighted audio and select "Cut." This removes the audio from the previous channel.

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      Right click on "cut vocals" and select "Paste." This moves the audio to the new channel. It won't be audible in the track, but the audio is there in case you need it in the future. If you are absolutely sure you won't need the audio ever again, simply select "Delete" rather than "Cut."

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