One mix, separated into its individual partsTo make an instrumental, open your song, separate it, then mute VOCALS and listen to the backing. Check for any remaining voice before choosing Export, Mix, and WAV or MP3. Use Mix when you need one backing-track file; exporting selected tracks produces a ZIP of individual parts instead.
Making an instrumental means dropping the vocal and keeping the performance. The goal overlaps with a karaoke track, but the use is usually different: background music, a bed under video, or playback somewhere a lead vocal would be in the way.
Anything playing for a long stretch has to survive repeated listening, and EQ-based removal tends to leave the music sounding hollowed out. Separating by source keeps the instruments themselves intact, so the result holds up as background music.
Over a whole track, consistency matters more than peak accuracy. When the voice vanishes completely in one section and lingers in the next, the listener keeps noticing that something is off. That is why this page opens on High Quality: it takes longer, but it varies less across the length of a song.
For sampling or beatmaking, pulling one lumped instrumental is usually the wrong move. Run 6stem instead, split out drums, bass, guitar and piano, and take what you need. A combined instrumental cannot be un-combined later. If the output is material rather than a finished bed, separating further up front costs nothing and keeps every option open.