Can Adobe Audition 3 remove background music and leave the vocals ?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Only if there's absolutely nothing else in the centre panned position of your original stereo file. If it's not a stereo file, you can't do it at all.
What are the chances? Not good, I'd say. Often this is where the bass gets panned to, and to get rid of this as well is going to require extra work. Also, if there was any stereo ambience or reverb added to the singer, that will be lost too. The clean methodology for this is to remove the vocal as much as you can first, using the center channel extractor, and then subtract this file from the original one. What will be left will be the vocal on the original file. You have to get this part sample-accurate for it to work, but actually that's the most reliable part of the process; it will be getting rid of the vocal cleanly and leaving just the music that's going to be the difficult bit. IIRC (I don't have AA3 installed at present) there's a setting on the extractor that will do this, but I've always found that doing it as a separate process works out better, for some reason.
But try the whole thing. You never know, depending on the file you have, it might work out fine...

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