Is there such thing as an audio splitter?

[Gregrs]

Title says it all. I'm looking for an audio splitter for songs and stuff, where it will split the music and the singing. That way, I can do covers easier. But I'm not even sure if this is a thing. Is it? If it is, what program is it called?

[minibois]

Well you could try to look up the song with instrumental behind its title?

[porina]

There's an old trick I haven't tried recently, but if you take a stereo recording, and subtract one of the channels from the other, what you have left tends to resemble music with less vocals. This works on the assumption that vocals are usually presented in the centre of the stereo image, but musical parts can be towards left or right, so they don't cancel out. It wont be perfect but could be a start.

[VVoltor]

There is some software that attempts this by filtering certain frequencies. However it doesn't work that well since vocals and instruments obviously overlap. Some programs look at differences in the stereo channels because vocals are usually in the centre and instruments panned to the left or right.

 

Audacity would be a good tool to start with, and there's plenty of tutorials on the Googles, like this http://www.instructables.com/id/Remove-The-Vocals-From-A-Song/