Drop Frame
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Max for Live device / Ableton Live 12

Isolate the vocal, out of anything.

US$23Available on isovocal.com

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Isolate the vocal, out of anything. Isovocal's dial, turned from INST towards VOCAL, beside the words Max for Live, Ableton Live 12, $23, isovocal.com

Isovocal was built for Drop Frame's own live sets: a way to pull the vocal out of the track that is playing and lay it over the next one, or drop a track to its instrumental, without bouncing stems or adding tracks. Your clip stays a clip.

Drop it on an audio track, launch a warped Session clip and press Process. The song is separated once, at home, on your Mac: on Apple Silicon the GPU does it in about twenty seconds. It is cached from then on, so on stage the device only reads from that cache and costs next to no CPU.

Then one dial does the work. Left is the instrumental, the middle is the original track and right is the bare vocal, and every point between is usable. Map it to a controller like any Live parameter.

It reads the clip's warp markers, tempo and transpose through the Live API, so the vocal stays locked to what Live is actually playing, loops and tempo changes included. It never writes anything back: your clips and your project stay exactly as they were.

Format
Max for Live audio effect
Requires
Ableton Live 12 Suite, macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel
Separation
Demucs v4, on your own Mac
Processing
About twenty seconds a track on Apple Silicon, once, then cached
On stage
Next to no CPU: it plays from the cache
Sync
Warp markers, tempo, transpose and loop points

A closer look

From isovocal.com
The Isovocal device panel: Drop Frame & Boydex, With You (feat. Pyroblossom) at the top, the dial at 50 percent between INST and VOCAL, Ready beneath, a play button to its left and a level meter to its right
The device: the playing clip up top, the dial between INST and VOCAL, its status below
Isovocal's dial on a dark panel, its cyan arc lit from INST up to the top, the middle
One dial: the middle is the original track
Isovocal's specs: separation, processing, CPU on stage, sync, dial, engine and requirements
The specs, from isovocal.com

How it works

  1. 01

    Drop it on a track

    Isovocal sits on an audio track like any Live device.

  2. 02

    Press Process

    Launch a warped Session clip and press Process. The song is separated once and cached.

  3. 03

    Turn the dial

    Instrumental to original to vocal, in time, at matched level. MIDI-map it and play.

Available on isovocal.com

Isovocal. US$23.

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