How-to guide
How to loop a vocal phrase from a song
Looping a vocal phrase from a full mix is ugly — the underlying drums and bass loop badly and glitch at the seam. Once you have an isolated vocal stem, looping a phrase becomes a clean cut-and-fade job.
Looping works especially well for breath-to-breath phrases with natural silence on either side. The isolated vocal stem gives you that silence; the full mix usually does not.
Step-by-step
- Upload the song to VocalSplit. Any common audio format, up to 100 MB.
- Pay for the split. $0.99 for one. Packs are cheaper per split for batch work.
- Download the vocals stem. Lossless 24-bit WAV — the silence between phrases is genuine silence, not just lowered instrumentation.
- Cut the phrase you want to loop. In your DAW, set loop points at the start and end of the phrase. Crossfade the seam by a few milliseconds for a click-free loop.
- Use the loop however you like. Drop it on a sampler pad, layer it under a beat, or trigger it live.
Tips for better results
- Quantise the phrase to a bar boundary for musical loops; leave it natural for rhythmic interest.
- Pitch-shift the looped phrase a semitone or two for a fresh take on a familiar line.
- Bounce the loop to your own sample library for reuse across projects.
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