How do you set that up?
whatever it is that Peter Jackson has
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It works quite well! Saved me some cash there man, I appreciate it!
I donât punch in youtube links, which is a cool feature. I have been sampling off of my vinyl collection and dragging in the files. Itâs like rediscovering it now that I can just split anything out instead of hunting for breaks.
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Splitting stems from vinyl⌠Thatâs really effing cool! Somehow more authentic than YouTube-based stems. 
I was blown away when I got the drums from the Prodigy songs, and when I split the vocals from West End Girls. Crazy mashups will ensue!
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was steamroller âas goodâ as ripx for your use or better than ripx, or not as good but good enough?
Not sure yet, Ill need to rip more but for now I have it âas goodâ. You can demo RipX for free for 3 weeks.
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you have to find it on github and follow the installation, then use it with a terminal. But i have a new method, just use the free serato studio, it has build in stem splitting. I route the serato studio outs into my daw and record the separated stuff i need
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free?
Just use Jdownloader then!
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I canât speak for some of the other paid apps discussed here but fwiw stemroller stems sound better and have more useful part separation than any of the online AI stem splitters I tried. I think your computer needs to have a lot of available resources for it to work though, and it still might be slow.
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Yes, I was thinking the same about
I wouldnât be surprised if theyâre all working off of the Facebook Research library Stemroller utilizes.
My only complaint with the free, excellent wrapper they provide is that it occasionally glitches in a track and I get a noticeable hiccup.
Itâs fine for my use, separating a mix to focus on instrument groupings to better understand songs i love, but has been a little annoying and requiring extra time with one premixed track an associate provided for me to contribute to.
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I gotta try some of these for sure!
Great post
I tried this one (V2 and the new V3 beta) and I was very impressed. It works better on some material than others but very pleasantly surprised and cheap.
currently trying stemroller.
is it really very very slow on an m1 mac, or has it crashed⌠theres no progress bar .
initial impressions - its free, but ripx(not free) is better
update - it states on website âin the real app it might take 15 minutesâ
thats a long time considering djay does it realtime.(not free)
update - i gave up - deleted stemroller.
How is Ripx better to you? I canât compare the 2 now that my Ripx trial ended.
I pulled some really clean vocals off of Stemroller and am quite happy. I have an M1 macbook and let it run for around 5-8 mins and it pulls all stems.
If it is just the time it takes to separate, I have no problems there.
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Yeah, itâs slow but Iâm not going to pay for any âAIâ products and the quality isnât the same or better for the speed increase.
I just queue my tracks overnight for later analysis.
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Yeah I actually like that it takes a while. Tells me a lot is going on under the hood to get the stems that clean. We are at the point where stuff like stealing a kick from a record or at least grabbing it to analyze and compare it to one you made is so easy now. It used to be about break hunting, but now about any part of a song is fair game.
I listen to my record collection completely differently now.
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Just tried out Stemroller for the first time on a few tracks. On my computer (Windows PC with an RTX 2060, 3.6Ghz 6-core CPU, 16Gb ram) it took just a couple minutes and the stems sound pretty good. It isnât quite as granular as I would like, and it doesnât know what to do with electronic sounds at times but itâs an incredible tool - I canât believe itâs free. Iâll definitely be abusing this for ripping new drum breaks from rock/jazz. The thing that surprised me most is how well it captures the room reverb on drums - it sounds almost exactly as good as in the test songs I used.
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How does Stemroller compare to Koala ?
I actually didnât realize koala can do that, Iâve never used it (if youâre talking about the mobile app). This is my first time using a stem splitter.
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