Ready to grab the microphone and impress all of your friends with your Karaoke
skills? Introducing the AnalogX Vocal Remover for WinAmp! The vocal remover works on many of the stereo recordings available on the market (although with MP3 it really makes some of the audio artifacts much more noticable - the DirectX version will yield cleaner results)... The vocals are not completely removed in most cases, but they are low enough that you usually can barely hear them. Currently the program removes vocals much in the same way the hardware devices do - by making the assumption that vocals are usually recorded equally on both channels, while the music itself is not. By making this assumption, you can remove whatever is the same in both channels by changing their phase relationship by 180 degrees, and then summing the two channels. The plugin REQUIRES a stereo input, if you do not give it the left and right channels, it will not process the incoming stream, but instead just pass it through There will be some big improvements to this in the future versions, as this is only the beginning...

Now, for certain styles of music you might end up removing more than the vocals - there really is no way around this - but there are some benefits to this as well. I use this technique all the time to rip out drum loops, and depending on the style of music you can use this to easily rip out specific instruments as well!

In order to use this plugin, you must have WinAmp 2.0 or greater installed. It also requires a stereo stream to work properly, and the higher the bitrate the better. To enable it, just go into the Preferences (CTRL-P), and select 'AnalogX Vocal Remover' from the list; a slider will appear on the screen that will allow you to adjust the amount of the effect (0% = normal; 100% = totally processed).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Minor cosmetic updates/Release of WinAmp plugin