Extracting drums from a song has never been a huge possibility. However, sound technology has continually advanced over the years, and many companies have developed ways of removing certain parts of songs in a clean way.
In this article, we’re going to test one particular company’s part remover and see if it does a good job in removing the drums. Are you keen on playing along without drum parts or using a song for a drum cover? Read on!
Without getting too deep into it, companies will produce software that recognizes particular sound waves. Once it does this, it will be able to remove them completely from audio files.
This isn’t easy to do, but we’re highly impressed with the results that we got from LALAL.AI. So, let’s get into some specifics of their brand.
LALAL.AI is a website that specializes in sound technology. They’ve created a system that allows you to split parts of songs in an incredibly easy way. The company originally created a network called Rocknet that did this.
However, they’ve recently created a new system called Cassiopeia that is much stronger and more reliable.
After finding out about this platform, we wanted to see just how well it could extract drums from a song. While many have tried before, the end result has never quite been right. But we were hopeful with LALAL.AI.
Here’s the process of extracting drums from a song:
The homepage of the platform is fairly straightforward. It gives you a giant prompt to choose which instrument you want to remove. Naturally, you need to select drums.
Now you need to click the “Select File” button and it will allow you to upload a song from your computer. Make sure that it’s a song that actually has drumming in it. If it doesn’t, the platform isn’t going to do much with the drum remover option selected.
It will take a bit of time for the song to upload, so be patient.
The platform works on a system of minutes being paid for. Once you process a song that has had the drums removed, your minutes counter lowers. When that hits zero, you’ll need to buy more minutes to do more songs.
So, it’s good to check out the song previews that LALAL.AI provides before officially processing the full thing. You get to listen to parts of the song without losing any of your minutes.
If you’ve decided you want to get the full song with the drums removed, you need to click where it says that you must process the entire file. It will take a minute or two to do this depending on how long the song is. So, again, be patient while it loads.
You’ll get access to two tracks. The first one will be the isolated drum track and the second will be the tune without the drums in it. Both are incredibly useful to have, so we suggest you download them both.
Remember that after you’ve done the processing, you lose minutes on your counter. The minutes lost add up to the length of the song you just processed.
After you’ve clicked out of that webpage where the files were, you won’t be able to get back there. Thankfully, an email will be sent to you where you can download the files from. You may want to keep that email somewhere safe so that you can go back to it if the files go missing from your computer. LALAL.AI lets you keep those downloadable files for a few years.
We were incredibly impressed with the results that we got. It was quite surprising to get a song with the drums completely removed.
LALAL.AI is an excellent tool to use to remove drums from songs. On the flip side, it’s also a great tool if you want to work out drum parts since it also gives you the isolated drum track.
To really optimize your practicing, you could download the isolated drum part from here, and then use other software to slow it down and speed it up. It’s the perfect solution to learning any drum part that is too difficult to learn from simply listening to it in the context of the song it’s accompanying.
The platform has a one-time fee structure. You pay for a certain number of minutes, and then you need to pay again once you’ve split up enough songs for those minutes to run out.
It’s incredibly affordable considering how high-quality the split parts are. Also, we love this payment structure more than the standard monthly fee structure that you’ll find with many competing platforms. Monthly fees often leave you feeling like you haven’t got your money’s worth if you don’t use it enough. With this structure, you get to use exactly what you paid for, no matter how long it takes.
One last thing to say regarding fees is that the platform gives you 10 minutes for free straight from the bat. So, you can use it to extract drums from a few songs without paying anything, to begin with. It’s a great way to try the platform out to see if you like it.
So, we’ve given LALAL.AI a try and we love it. It’s now your turn. Find a song that you want to remove the drums from and then head over to their website.
The free 10 minutes of audio will allow you to test out a few different songs. We guarantee that you’ll be just as impressed as we were when we first tried their part splitter. The platform also seems to be a lot more affordable than many others that attempt to do the same thing.
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