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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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Post by pelagic_sky »

djcannabiz wrote: post #31

I tried throwing some underground rap artists at this app, as stem splitters usually struggle with them I split https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaL7KBjkDI And it gave me this https://www.dropbox.com/sh/inyk38n2jrp5i45/AACpB0xXNFxamEmP3... I noticed some weird hissing with the 808s, but other then that it sounded pretty good For more of a challenge, I inputted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwQ3njiU4M and it came u…

I’ve found Lala to be my go to. If this is better, then I’m very interested in trying it out.

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

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Post by pcf »

thisiswater wrote: post #34

Tried splitting a complex arrangement (Chicago by Sufjan Stevens). Drums bass and vocals come out fairly well, though the drums stem seems to lack other percussion elements outside of the core rock drumkit (e.g. tamborine), and cymbals hits are clipped rather than ringing. The 'other' stem, the rest of the instrumentation, keeps a fair bit of the percussion and there's bleed from the vocal melody. The backing vocals…

Did you use a FLAC/WAV file? That should yield the best results.

(Only asking because you linked to YouTube, and I'm not sure if you used the YouTube audio for your source.)

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

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Post by thisiswater »

pcf wrote: post #42
thisiswater wrote: post #34

Tried splitting a complex arrangement (Chicago by Sufjan Stevens). Drums bass and vocals come out fairly well, though the drums stem seems to lack other percussion elements outside of the core rock drumkit (e.g. tamborine), and cymbals hits are clipped rather than ringing. The 'other' stem, the rest of the instrumentation, keeps a fair bit of the percussion and there's bleed from the vocal melody. The backing vocals…

Did you use a FLAC/WAV file? That should yield the best results. (Only asking because you linked to YouTube, and I'm not sure if you used the YouTube audio for your source.)

Perhaps you're right, I'd have to check.

I typed the song in the search and pressed the first likely result, which is the youtube video I linked. Using the software as intended I believe.

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

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Post by TimTheTinker »

frob wrote: post #38
TimTheTinker wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem rather disingenuous that the product page makes no mention that the author didn't do the heavy lifting, and that at the same time it features a prominent donation button. If I didn't know who did the real work and benefitted a lot from this tool, I'd give to StemRoller in proportion to my gratitude -- which I'm sure others are liable to do.

It's in the first paragraph of the README in the github repo and th3 second paragraph on the website. I'm not sure what more can be asked of the author.

Thanks - I didn't even notice there was content below the fold on the web site (I'm on a desktop browser).

How about saying so above the fold?

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

#46

Post by squeaky-clean »

djcannabiz wrote: post #31

I tried throwing some underground rap artists at this app, as stem splitters usually struggle with them I split https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaL7KBjkDI And it gave me this https://www.dropbox.com/sh/inyk38n2jrp5i45/AACpB0xXNFxamEmP3... I noticed some weird hissing with the 808s, but other then that it sounded pretty good For more of a challenge, I inputted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwQ3njiU4M and it came u…

Super impressive splitting there, wow. Just curious, was your source a lossless or compressed file?

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

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Post by pcf »

CharlesW wrote: post #12
nr2x wrote: post #7

How is this similar/different than the Deezer one?

I'd also be interested in how it compares to iZotope RX's Music Rebalance (examples from earlier releases here: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/stem-isolation-music-rebala... ).

I just checked "Californication" (used for all their other examples here: https://soundcloud.com/honualx/sets/source-separation-in-the...) in RX9 Music Rebalance with the setting to "best", and I wasn't very impressed.

Seems like this tool might be better than Izotope's.

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

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Post by pelagic_sky »

pelagic_sky wrote: post #41
djcannabiz wrote: post #31

I tried throwing some underground rap artists at this app, as stem splitters usually struggle with them I split https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaL7KBjkDI And it gave me this https://www.dropbox.com/sh/inyk38n2jrp5i45/AACpB0xXNFxamEmP3... I noticed some weird hissing with the 808s, but other then that it sounded pretty good For more of a challenge, I inputted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwQ3njiU4M and it came u…

I’ve found Lala to be my go to. If this is better, then I’m very interested in trying it out.

Just a follow up. My two conversions so far, Lalal.ai has been better. Especially separating drums from instruments. I'll give Stemroller a few more tries as I am always looking for options.

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

#49

Post by linux2647 »

dylan604 wrote: post #15

"Download and extract the latest ffmpeg snapshot from evermeet.cx and place the ffmpeg executable inside" Why? Why can't this just point to the location where ffmpeg is rather than making a copy of ffmpeg? symlink might work, but just do a $(which ffmpeg) or ask the user for the path ~/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg etc

Maybe there’s some feature of bleeding edge ffmpeg that’s required for the app
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