Is there a way to do so? For example, I have a song but I want to make it into an instrumental version.

Thanks.

try VirtualDJ.

I heard VCDvut can do it, but i have never try it before..
i want songs from video, how leh??

There's many topics on this, and the short answer is No.
There's no single solution that can "easily" remove the vocals.
Sure, there are programs that allow you to lower the mids (Usually where the vocal lies), but that can distort and change the entire music already.

So unless you're willing to fork out lots of cash to get it professionally done, nope. No single, simple solution for us home users.

this should be sticky to avoid related thread from being created

i use adobe audition 2.0 to do vocal removal...it actually cut one of the channels and most of the time, the track lose a bit of its 'bass' or 'treble' feel...but for normal home use, karaoke or whatever u wanna do with it...audition can do fine...unless you're very very picky about the quality...

the time when i use vocal removal is when i want to remix the track to make it my background audio from my work...

winamp also got plugin for this
but the quality is nv good, u need 2 get pros to remove every sound manually

What you're asking for jdreamer is a minus one track, no vocals but the guitar, bass, drum and <insert instrument here> remain the same.

And like everyone has posted, its very hard to just remove the vocals from the track.

Some sound cards can actually "soften" the vocals for you, like Abit's onboard sound cards ..... the driver allows an option to "remove" the vocals from the track your playing via Winamp or so. But you can still hear the vocals on the background, very softly.

those softwares actually remove the middle channel (or center channel/mono channel) on the songs. usually we do voice recording in mono, then mix it in the song. bass play , and bass pedal also in center.

thats why u lose a lot of bass and vocals (and watever that mixed in center). guitars are both on left and right, same goes with effects, synth, n so on.