Thought I’d share this one with the community. With my Moises subscription up, and only using it occasionally, I had a look around for free alternatives.
For those that don’t know - this is about AI music separation into stems for each of the instruments.
There is a very good music separation AI algorithm called demucs, but it’s a pain to use via command line.
Someone has created a pretty good app to make using it easy: Stemdeck. https://stemdeck.app/
It runs locally on your computer rather than in the cloud. I tried it on a couple of songs on my Mac and it worked great. It’s still alpha software so might have a ton of bugs, but worked great for me. Worth checking out if you’re a bit tech minded and want to remove the guitar from songs to record or practice your own.
I’ve been using stemroller. I can download for all the major OS options. The interface is not as complex, you simply tell it the song and it will deliver the stems after the separation into the directory you set.
I’ll see if this one sounds better. There are sometimes some odd things that bleed through on stemroller, but it too is based on demucs, so I bet they are going to have similar results.
thanks for the heads-up guys
I’ll have to check when my Moises sub is due. As with all these things, they’re going to make a killing on folk who just forget they’re still paying for a service they no longer use/need.
I do find it handy for the family & friends projects, splitting an original song into stems, and when individuals send back their contributions, just replace them in the DAW till there’s nothing of the original left. Works great.
Last year it autorenewed before I could cancel So I cancelled it shortly after that. I think I’ve done around 10 songs in two years, not a great value for money looking at it that way.
All is good Shane… hope you’re doing well too. I’m just not getting a lot of time for the community, and when I do the threads I see are already super busy.
Stemroller looks good also! I tried UVR (Universal Vocal Remover) too but its UI was a PITA. I’m pretty sure the results from demucs will be the same regardless of the UI, although demucs has different algorithms you can pick for what stems to split into it.
The bleeding - I always had some bleed with Moises anyway so I’m not too fussed about that for practice purposes. I’m not sure if any current tech has no bleed.
They got an extra year out of me last year That’s the thing with subscriptions…
Pretty cool to hear how you’re using stem splitting Brian!
This is an area that I’ve only just started to look into so thanks for the stemroller link, Michael – and thanks also, JK for starting this thread.
I was excited to read this but unfortunately, I see that GNU/Linux is not officially supported. I guess it’s not a major OS.
I also hadn’t previously heard of demucs until I saw it mentioned in this thread so I’ll give that a go (I’m comfortable enough using the command line). Thanks, all.
I do tend to use the windows machine in my case. It has the gaming video card for the acceleration. It is pretty fast. I can drop 6-8 songs in there and the first will be done before I get the last one dragged in.
So I cancelled it shortly after that. I think I’ve done around 10 songs in two years, not a great value for money looking at it that way.
I guess it’s not a major OS. 