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Wouldn't it be much more efficient for everyone (and even lucrative for the owners) to also provide the studio stems at a slightly higher/different price? (not
by Juliate 6y ago
Wouldn't it be much more efficient for everyone (and even lucrative for the owners) to also provide the studio stems at a slightly higher/different price?
(not that some of these are not already available when you know where to search, but it's not very... structured)
- marksomnian 6y agoNative Instruments tried that with their Stems [0] project. Didn't seem to get all too far though. [0]: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/stems/ https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/stems/
- Juliate 6y agoThis one is proprietary to them. The "open source" format/practice exists already: just bounce your mix into separate audio files, one for each track or group, into a folder, zip it, ship. Only, it's not (yet) much embraced on the commercial side. When you pay up to 20 boxes to get a full album, why couldn't you pay, say, 100 to get the same album but with separated tracks for your own use + instructions as who to contact & how for any other kind of uses?
- NobodyNada 6y agoThis is a thing specifically in the contemporary Christian music industry, so that churches can pick-and-choose parts from the original song to use as backing tracks for live performance. See e.g. https://www.multitracks.com/songs/Hillsong-Young-And-Free/This-Is-Living/This-Is-Living/multitracks/ https://www.multitracks.com/songs/Hillsong-Young-And-Free/Th...