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StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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This seems to run just fine under Linux as well, not completely out of the box though: It's basically missing builds and config for Linux which can be build analogous to the existing Win/Mac stuff. You also have to build the demucs-cxfreeze dependency (as described in its repo, https://github.com/stemrollerapp/demucs-cxfreeze ).

Whenever I see an "##Installation" section with more than one step, I immediately call DOCKER!

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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Not to be dismissive, but as far as I can tell, the heavy work is done by facebook's demucs and this is an electron front end to run the demucs cli (and I guess search youtube for videos to download). The demucs project page has more information. https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

There’s no need to be dismissive since they say this in the first sentence. Preparing an easy to use app for all platforms probably does get this into more creative hands, and that’s a net-positive contribution I can appreciate.

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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post #5
post #3

Open Culture recently posted a link to Abbey Road but with only Paul's bass lines, but the actual content got taken down. [0] It was really cool though, in part because it's not nearly as precise as I would have thought, which made it feel really organic. [0] https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/hear-the-beatles-abbey-r...

In the real world where tracks are cut live, there is a fair bit of microphone bleed

Especially in the day and style that the Beatles recorded. Today, not so much

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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post #22

Not to be dismissive, but as far as I can tell, the heavy work is done by facebook's demucs and this is an electron front end to run the demucs cli (and I guess search youtube for videos to download). The demucs project page has more information. https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

There’s no need to be dismissive since they say this in the first sentence. Preparing an easy to use app for all platforms probably does get this into more creative hands, and that’s a net-positive contribution I can appreciate.

They did not prepare it for all platforms though. Linux is missing.

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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post #7

How is this similar/different than the Deezer one?

I just did a quick test of demucs vs spleeter:4stems. demucs is significantly slower but the output is better. in a semi blind comparison, I prefer demucs for all 4 tracks (drum, bass, vocals, and other). bass and other stand out the most so let me say a couple words about them. bass - the demucs bass has less bleed from other instruments and the volume is consistent throughout. with spleeter, the volume varies a lot…

It's pretty decent. I threw a drum'n'bass track at it to see how it would cope with heavily produced material and the results were surprisingly good.

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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Been using demucs for a couple of weeks now, mostly taking my early produced music which I have since lost the project files for and giving them a remix and update. Gotta say I have been blown away by how good demucs is. I installed it following the repo instructions and then created a zsh alias to run it with any file name. Eg $ai_split mySong.mp3

Wait fifteen minutes and out pops four stems, flawless so far, even been messing around with mainstream tracks and using ableton with warp applied to quickly build out remixes. Demucs is going to be /is already a game changer!

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s no need to be dismissive since they say this in the first sentence. Preparing an easy to use app for all platforms probably does get this into more creative hands, and that’s a net-positive contribution I can appreciate.

They did not prepare it for all platforms though. Linux is missing.

Looks like someone’s on it. https://github.com/stemrollerapp/stemroller/pull/2

Re: StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

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Been using demucs for a couple of weeks now, mostly taking my early produced music which I have since lost the project files for and giving them a remix and update. Gotta say I have been blown away by how good demucs is. I installed it following the repo instructions and then created a zsh alias to run it with any file name. Eg $ai_split mySong.mp3 Wait fifteen minutes and out pops four stems, flawless so far, even b…

That’s awesome! I wonder if there are projects to create a repository of pre-split public domain music? Seems like something the internet archive could host once created.
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