Violin Extractor

How to extract the violin from a song

1. Upload the song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes. The first time, you sign in with Google.
2. Press Extract the violin. The price appears on the button first: 1 credit per minute of music. New accounts get 5 credits. Expect 1 to 3 minutes.
3. Listen and download. The reels are Violin and Without the violin. Click either to hear it alone. Each downloads separately as an MP3 at 320 kbps.

A failed job returns your credits.

Where the violin shows up

The violin carries the melody or a high countermelody in a lot of styles: folk and bluegrass fiddle, Celtic dance tunes, country, Irish pub songs, pop strings, film scores and classical chamber pieces. It sits high in the mix, which helps separation, because few other instruments share that range except a lead vocal, a flute or a bright synth.

Who wants it alone

• Violin students who want to hear their part without a full band, loop a phrase and copy the bowing and slides.
• Fiddle players learning a tune from a studio recording.
• Arrangers who want to see how a violin line was written.
• Sample makers looking for a clean violin phrase.

With Without the violin, you can play the part yourself over the track.

Violin or viola?

The viola is the slightly larger, lower relative of the violin, and in a string section the two can sound alike. If the violin file seems to contain a darker, mellower line, check it against the Viola Extractor. For the lowest strings see the Cello Extractor and the Double Bass Extractor, or take the whole section at once with the Bowed Strings Extractor.