I have a friend with a small home studio. It's a Mac based studio, but he said he can work with WAV files. He's pretty good at it, and I've done some wind synth tracks on his first CD many years ago.

He's doing a new project and cut a tune with background singers. The background voices are all together on a single audio track.

He wants to copy and paste a verse in the middle to add a guitar solo, and wants the background vocal parts, but wants it done with no words, but instead some kind of synth sound. That way he could play guitar and have the vocals turned synth be the answer parts.

He doesn't want to figure out what the singers sang note-for-note and have it played on a synth, as the harmonies are pretty dense and blended quite well.

He asked me if I knew how to do this, and I don't but I told him I'd try some things and see what I can some up with.

I tried the vocoder in Audacity but with no luck. I tried pitch to MIDI in Power Tracks, but I can't get that to work.

Does anyone know:
  1. Can this be done
  2. If so, what app/tool to use
  3. And how to do it.


He's done some favors for me in his home studio and he's a good friend, so I'd like to help him out if I can.

Thanks.

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