Sing or Play Along
Take the vocals out to sing it yourself — or take your instrument out and play its part.
You bring
A song file on your phone. Up to 4 minutes on the free plan; not a YouTube video.
You get
The song without the vocals, or without your instrument.
- Your song file
- SPLIT
- Vocals + Backing
- A few minutes
- Mix: vocals off
- Sing along
Watch it
Step by step
- Open your song fileTap Open menu, then Open File, and pick the song. Splitting needs a file on your phone: a song you bought, recorded or downloaded.
- Choose what to splitTap SPLIT, then choose Vocals + Backing to sing along, or Vocals + Drums + Bass + Other to take out one instrument.
- Split itTap Split. The button says how many of your splits it uses: on the free plan you get a few each week.
- Wait a few minutesThe song is uploaded, split on our servers and deleted as soon as it's done. You can keep using the app meanwhile.
- Turn the vocals offHold STEMS to open the mixer, and switch off the vocals (or your instrument). SnagTrax remembers the mix.
Good to know
- The guitar and keys are in Other when you split into four parts.
- Parts that come back unusable can be reported within a short time to get the split back.
- Longer songs, and as many splits as you like, come with Plus.
More to do
Still stuck? Tell us what you were trying to do
- Hold — Keep your finger on it for about half a second. Many buttons do one thing on a tap and another on a hold.
- Stems — The separate parts of a song — vocals, drums, bass and the rest — that splitting makes.
- Split — Separating a song into its stems. It happens on our servers and takes a few minutes.
- Bookmark — A saved moment in a track. It can have an end too, and then it's a section you can loop or export.
- Loop — A section that plays over and over, starting again the moment it ends.
- Bank — A set of eight bookmarks. Each track has four banks, A to D.
- Cue — The spot where the needle last came down on the record. CUE takes you back to it.
- BPM — Beats per minute: how fast the song's beat is.
- Key — The set of notes a song is built around, such as C major. Changing the key moves every note up or down together.
- Semitone — The smallest step between two notes. Twelve semitones make an octave.
- Transient — The start of a sound, like a drum hit — the spot a new bookmark can snap to.
- Pad — A square you tap to play a sound, as on a drum machine or sampler.
- Sampler — An instrument that plays recorded sounds from pads or keys, like an Akai MPC or a Synthstrom Deluge.
- Kit — A set of sounds laid out on a sampler's pads, one to a pad, ready to play.