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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,
by gavinray 4y ago
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 https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs
- pabs3 4y agoAre there no communities of "open source" music? It sounds like the stems are part of the "source code" for tracks.
- jononor 4y agoMany niches in electronic music have small knit communities of creators and producers that regularly remixes each-others stuff. But it is not an open community, you gotta have a decent standing (from making own music or prior remixes) before someone is willing to send you their stems. For anyone musician that has a label/publisher, they also need to be in the loop, for handling of the royalties. So sharing stems happen regularly in the music industry, but it is not easily accessible. Which makes tools like the one mentioned very useful for everyone else that would like to participate.