More Ways To Remove Musical Elements

US Alternative stem separation tools for remixes 30/11/21

A week or so ago we shared a video by James Wiltshire on magically removing Vocals, Drums and Bass from any track. In the subsequent time between that article and now, a couple of other options have been suggested which might be worth investigating: First of all we have Lalal, which offers 10 minutes of free processing per email address, and a cost of $10 for 90 minutes/2GB of audio.

The second option is Rip-X, which I know has been around for a very long time - but seems to have kept up with the pack. It offers a suite designed specifically for this process and has many very credible endorsements. It's product range features 3 variations on the theme, Rip-X, DeepRemix and DeepAudio.

It's also worth noting that a GitHub repository called Deezer/Spleeter has a range of pre-trained models, reportedly used by professional audio software including:

iZotope in its Music Rebalance feature
SpectralLayers in its Unmix feature in SpectralLayers 7
Acon Digital within Acoustica 7
VirtualDJ in their stem isolation feature
Algoriddim in their NeuralMix and djayPRO app suite

So it appears there are many options to try out. Here are the links to all of the above:

hitnmix.com/

https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

https://www.lalal.ai/

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