For decades, this was impossible. A finished stereo mix was considered a "brick wall"—you couldn't pull the bricks out without breaking the wall.
Select your track → Effect > Special > Vocal Reduction and Isolation... → Choose "Remove Center" (or "Isolate Center" for the opposite effect).
It’s too good. If you isolate the vocals from a Queen song, you’ll hear Freddie Mercury in your room. But listen closely: the AI sometimes eats the guitar solo that was harmonizing with the voice. Or it leaves behind "digital butterflies"—shimmering, ghostly artifacts that sound like a choir of robots. The Secret Sauce: Embrace the Wreckage Here is where most people give up. They isolate the vocal, hear the artifacts, and delete the file. That is a mistake.
Imagine you have a finished song. The vocalist is soaring, but the guitar is slightly out of tune. Or maybe you want to study a rapper’s flow without the beat. Or—here’s the holy grail—you want an a cappella version of a track that was never officially released.
This produces shockingly clean a cappellas. You can often hear breaths, lip smacks, and room reverb that were buried in the original mix.
