Make a karaoke track of the song you want to sing
Karaoke catalogues never have the song you actually want. Upload the recording instead and sing over the real arrangement — the band plays on, the lead vocal steps aside, and the microphone is yours.
Free · 1 song per day · nothing to install
Bring the song you know
An MP3 or WAV up to 50 MB — whatever is in your own music folder. Files uploaded without an account belong to your browser session and are gone within a day.
The singer steps aside
ChordSonic's pipeline separates the lead voice from the band and hands you back the arrangement without it — same key, same tempo, same feel.
Take the mic
Download it as an ordinary MP3 and play it wherever you are singing: headphones for practice, a phone at a party, a USB stick at the venue.
Decide what plays behind you
- The band comes back in parts, each with a tick box, and the lead vocal starts unticked.
- Too bare for the room? Tick the vocal back on for a guide track to rehearse with. Warming up? Tick the piano alone.
- Press download and whatever is ticked becomes one MP3 to play from a phone or a laptop.
Two things worth checking first.
The key. Your track comes back in the key the record was made in, and plenty of famous songs live in a range built for one particular voice. Running the same file through ChordSonic tells you what key it is in, so you find out at home rather than three lines into the first chorus.
The cues. Without the lead vocal there is nothing telling you when to come in, and the gap before verse two is longer than anybody remembers. Practising with the download once, lyric sheet in hand, is usually the difference between a performance and a rescue operation.
Coming at this from the production side — building an instrumental bed to remix, edit or sample rather than sing over? That job lives on the vocal remover.
Karaoke maker FAQ
How do I make a karaoke version of a song?
Upload the recording you want to sing to and press Separate. A couple of minutes later you can download the same arrangement with the lead vocal taken out of it, as an ordinary MP3 you can play from a phone, a laptop or a USB stick.
Do the lyrics appear on screen?
No — this makes the audio, not the words. There is no scrolling lyric video and no subtitle file. Most people pair the download with a printed lyric sheet or a lyrics site open on a second screen, which is also less brittle than a video when someone asks for the next verse twice.
Can I sing it in a different key if the original is too high?
Not from this page — the track comes back in the same key and at the same tempo as the recording you uploaded. If the top notes are out of reach it is worth checking what the song's key actually is before you commit to it in front of people: ChordSonic reads the key off any upload, so you will know whether you need a different song or a different arrangement.
Do the backing vocals disappear too?
Yes, and that is worth knowing before the night. Lead and backing voices are treated as one part, so harmonies, doubled choruses and gang vocals leave with the lead. On songs where the chorus is carried by stacked voices, the result can feel emptier than the version in your head.
Will it sound good enough for a party?
For most studio recordings, yes — through a speaker, in a room with people talking, it holds up perfectly well. What you are listening for is a faint ghost of the original singer on long held notes and heavy reverb tails. Sparse ballads expose that more than a dense, loud arrangement does.
Do I need an account or an app?
Neither. It runs in the browser, and one song a day costs nothing and asks for nothing. If you are putting a whole party playlist together, a free account raises the daily limit and keeps your tracks instead of clearing them after 24 hours.
Backing & jam tracks
Soon you'll be able to turn any song's detected key, tempo and chords into a practice backing track to play along to.
Find out what key it is in
Drop the same file into ChordSonic and it reads the key, the tempo and every chord change — the fastest way to tell whether a song sits in your range before you sing it in front of anyone.
Analyze a trackWant to hear the original singer alone instead? That is the vocal extractor.