what are the best plugins and the correct procedure to extract the vocal part from a rap song?
I don’t expect the voice to be clean…but just that the audio volume of everything else (kick, hihat, bass, etc.) is very low.
[Ardour 8.1.0 on Linux]
You’ll get the best results by using an AI-based stem separation software. If you’re looking for FLOSS software, I had good results with Stemroller
If you want to use it on Linux, you can use “Demucs”, the tool it is based on, which you’ll have to install using the instructions here, which may require some knowledge about Python: