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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 polishdude20 »

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'd like to take a moment to mention how great dropbox's audio seeking thing is. It's super fast and works as intended. Great work whoever implemented this.

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

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Post by wszfahwbwbaha »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #44
frob wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

How about you stop being so pedantic and admit it when you're wrong instead of digging a deeper, dumber hole.

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

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Post by intvocoder »

Dwedit wrote: post #52

Let's see how long it takes for some new Neil Cicierega remixes to appear now.

With a tool like this, you could get back into the animutation scene. (Edit: I guess it's a bit of a non-sequitur, but I enjoyed Suzukisan, so there's that.)

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

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Post by djcannabiz »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #46
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?

The second file was lossless, the first was ripped from a CD.

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

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Post by yarg »

Honestly, this sort of thing is cool; but why (in general) is it necessary in the first place?

If the elements of the song are recording in isolation - which they are in all studio versions, why can't we just move to a format that supports the layering?

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

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Post by djcannabiz »

pelagic_sky wrote: post #48
pelagic_sky wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

what genre of music, may i ask?

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

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Post by gavinray »

yarg wrote: post #56

Honestly, this sort of thing is cool; but why (in general) is it necessary in the first place? If the elements of the song are recording in isolation - which they are in all studio versions, why can't we just move to a format that supports the layering?

Musicians and studios don't generally tend to offer the public access to original stems for songs (why would they?)

Say that you want to make a remix, mashup, or otherwise use sound-bytes from a song. The easiest thing to do is use a tool like Spleeter/Demucs to separate the source layers so that you can then further process them in your DAW.

This is what I do, but I just use the Demucs CLI because it's simple enough.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

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

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Post by osigurdson »

yarg wrote: post #56

Honestly, this sort of thing is cool; but why (in general) is it necessary in the first place? If the elements of the song are recording in isolation - which they are in all studio versions, why can't we just move to a format that supports the layering?

It isn't really in the best interest of the artist to provide this. The final mix is part of the overall product / work of art. Providing all of the individual tracks (there could be 30 or more in total) would also take up a lot of space / increase processing requirements while benefiting very few.

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

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Post by game-of-throws »

lapink wrote: post #36
ksherlock wrote: post #14

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

Original Demucs author here. Thanks for putting forward our research! I’m definitely happy to see more front ends for Demucs being developed and to read that it has been useful to other musicians! We are working on the next iteration of the model, and with more sources, hopefully released by the end of the year :) If you are interested in this research you can follow my Twitter (@honualx) or star the Demucs repo.

I'm curious, what is the business justification for funding development of Demucs, if you don't mind me asking? It doesn't seem very related to FB's core business.
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