The vocals are reduced substantially however definitely still there - it's a nice add on that isn't 100% effective. I plan on trying to use it to remove short sections dialog from videos where I want - to remove a particular comment without removing the background sounds - but haven't tried it for that yet. If it can at least squash dialog significantly that will be nice.

All that said, my results pretty much match the samples in the link you posted - there's a faint residual of the vocals remaining - this is using the default settings.

Yes, you planned application works much better than with music.

I have yet to see one of these gimmicks work well. They certainly aren't designed for creating a professional soundtrack for a singer to use to make a recording.

Music Mnus One AKA Pocket Songs is a much better option.

However, be advised that some of the soundtracks are midi garbage and sound it. The problem with the company is that they don't tell you. You have to buy it in order to find out. The midi piano only tracks sound fine if that's what you want.

Also, some of the orchestrated songs include the lead melody with the accompaniment instead of just the accompaniment. That sounds fake if a vocalist sings with it. Again, they don't tell you.

In order to try and get ahead of it I went there because they aren't very far from where I live.
But they won't even let you hear the tracks before you buy them.
Their new website does have some samples for some of the tracks which is an improvement.

While all this sounds very negative the upside of it is that if you do find tracks that are orchestrated accompaniment only they are fantastic and perfect for a singer to record with.

John

You're almost certainly not doing anything wrong.

Nothing that calls itself a "Vocal Remover" is really a vocal remover. What they all do is basically to remove anything that is panned to the centre whilst leaving behind those things that are panned wide left or right. They do this by subtracting the right channel from the left channel, something you can do yourself in SF without any plugins. The more sophisticated plugins have high- and low-pass filters to isolate the vocal range before they do the subtraction (so that low (e.g. bass) and high sounds (e.g. cymbals) that are panned to the centre are left intact) and/or some sort of pseudo-stereo effect to add back some sense of width as the basic process leaves you with just a mono track, but the subtraction of one side from the other is how the underlying effect works.

If your particular track happens to have the lead vocal panned to the centre and everything else panned fairly widely then you may get a good result. As you can imagine, tracks mixed like this are the ones they use to demonstrate how well the plugin works.

But if the lead vocal shares the centre with any other instruments (very common) then you will lose those instruments too. Or if the lead vocal isn't slap in the middle (fairly common) you will only get a partical removal. Or if the lead vocal has been treated with a lot of stereo reverb (more common than you'd think) then you will lose much of the lead vocal but be left with a horrible ghostly version of the vocal. Etc, etc, etc.

Mark

Try to find a song without any reverb on the vocals, and the Vocal Eraser will do a good job.

Unfortunately, most songs these days have massive amounts of reverb.

Thanks for the valuable comments, guys.

The plugin is really just a "by product" of my Vegas upgrade, so neither did I expect it to work miracles, nor am I much disappointed it doesn't :)

Piotr