Jade Starr Music

Let's Unmix - AI Stem Splitter

by Hikaru Tsuyumine

Splits a finished song into vocal, drums, bass and others

Jul 20, 202035 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 7:41Free to download and free to try: it will split a song but not save the result until unlocked
  2. 10:44The four stems it produces, and the warning that guitars and keys all land in others
  3. 11:55The scissors button, and how long a separation actually takes
  4. 14:50Exporting chosen stems as WAV and sending them straight to AudioShare
  5. 23:08Pulling a song in from YouTube and lifting the vocal off it to make a karaoke track
  6. 28:50The real use case: lifting one female backing vocal out of a track for a paid commission

What it does

Takes a finished stereo mix and separates it into vocal, drums, bass and others. Load a track from Files, Apple Music or another app, press the scissors, and it processes locally rather than uploading to a service. Each part can be soloed and exported as WAV or AAC, one at a time or several at once. Free to download and free to run a separation, with saving behind a one-off unlock rather than a subscription.

In the demo

Jade runs one of her own album tracks through it, pulls the vocal out and plays the result, then repeats it on a friend’s pre-master. She exports stems into AudioShare and grabs a song off YouTube to build a karaoke version.

Worth knowing

Nothing that does this is perfect and Jade says so plainly: expect warbling and bleed, especially on a loud brick-walled master. Guitars and keys get no stem of their own and land in others. The AUv3 version, which runs inside a host, has its own page.

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