Stem separation

[imacken]

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, guys.
The cross grade price is $200. I searched for vouchers, and they all require an existing licence - Pro Tools, Izotope RX, etc. I don’t have any of these.

 

[Craig Anderton]

I just wrote a blog post about using stem separation to fix a vocal from an album done in the 60s. The cool part is that if you separate the vocal and flip the phase, you can cancel the vocal from a two-track mix (attention karaoke fans, haha). Then you can create a second vocal stem and use Melodyne, EQ, whatever to fix it and mix it back with the two-track. The results are shockingly good.

 

[Crossinger]

I just wrote a blog post

Thanks, Craig! Which means: Presonus did fix their blog and we can expect more stuff from you in the future again.

 

[Craig Anderton]

Yes, the blog is fixed! But I don't see a way for people to comment. That's too bad, the feedback was helpful. Maybe it's just some switch they need to turn on.

 

[Jimi2020]

Does anyone know of any software that can do this in Stem separation?

This Studio One Stem Seperator tool looks like the Serato tool with a slightly different (and better) workflow. There is also a song-by-song website up using the Serato tool. https://serato.com/studio or /plugin .

I have done a set of songs for my band for rehearsals. The separation with Drums, Bass and Vocals usually works great. The Vocals and the instruments are usually where the misdirection of sounds come in. What I did was take the Studio takes of the cover songs the band wanted to cover and did the recording minus the one part or another for each member. It was a huge success and there has been some tightening of the band. It is nice to be able to practice if the drummer doesn't show up .

 

[imacken]

I'm sure there were other posts here earlier that seem to have disappeared! Maybe I'm going mad!

 

[Crossinger]

I'm sure there were other posts here earlier that seem to have disappeared! Maybe I'm going mad!

Nope, the question (installation issues) was moved to a dedicated thread:

Stems separation feature does not appear

Hi, I have studio one 7 but the stems separation feature does not appear for me, does anyone know why is that? Thanks a lot

studiooneforum.com

 

[tpittman]

Depending on the source material I like the results - but sometimes I think the artifacts are a bit too many. But keep in mind this is the first iteration of the feature so it might improve soon.

I totally agree with this. My friend who is a great keyboard player and singer recorded a lot of music with the UO (university of Oregon)
fusion band way back in late 70s and early 80s. Songs were very well recorded. He gave me 3 songs to try the Stem Separation on. Wow, is all I can say!! When I soloed the tracks yes you can hear some artifacts but, when mixed together it was very good. We were both very happy with
the results.

Then I get a song from my other friend. This song was not recorded very well and the Stem Separation was not good.
So yes, In my case the source material made a world of difference.

I am really looking forward to see how this feature improves in the Future