Stem Separation - can anything separate drums yet?

CCMP · February 7, 2025, 11:24am

We now have a bunch of Stem Separation options (Serato, MPC Stems, iZotope, Koala, etc) that does the standard Drums-Bass-Instruments-Vox separation.

But, is there anything that can split up drum mixes yet so you can isolate individual elements of a drum mix? Seems like it could be the same AI tech repurposed…

looms · February 7, 2025, 11:33am

Accusonus Regroover Pro does it but it’s a bit old now so probably doesn’t sound great.

sndrsklr · February 7, 2025, 11:50am

Steinberg SpectraLayers does it (and some more).

blakewalt · February 7, 2025, 11:54am

Wavemachine labs just released this:

There’s a 14 day trial to test it (don’t know if it’s good, didn’t try)
a mini Drumagog (to replace the sound) is available for the kick and snare.

arctor023 · February 7, 2025, 12:05pm

Uturunku · February 7, 2025, 1:18pm

+1 for WaveMachine Labs ReBeat

CCMP · February 7, 2025, 1:37pm

Yes, ReBeats seems to be exactly what I was asking for.

I’m demoing it now…

PlumWrinkles · February 11, 2025, 6:48pm

how’s the demo going??

reeloy · February 11, 2025, 7:40pm

…not on latest logic version…but if ur on mac, feed it’s stem splitter just with a drum track might be worth a try, since when it comes to standard splitting, it does a great job, i’ve heard…

thermionic · February 11, 2025, 7:50pm

This is free and excellent. No real reason to pay for any utilities based on similar training.

Bignill · February 11, 2025, 7:53pm

The also free Audacity has OpenVINO stem separation.

github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity

doc/feature_doc/music_separation/README.md

v3.4.2-R1

# OpenVINO™ Music Separation :musical_note:

This feature allows a user to separate a mono or stereo track into individual stems -- Drums, Bass, Vocals, & Other instruments.  

You can find this feature in the **Effect** menu:
![](menu.png)

To start, select a portion of a mono or stereo track, and select *OpenVINO Music Separation* from the menu.  

## Description of properties
See below for a description of the properties that can be set for this effect:  
![](properties.png)  
1. **Separation Mode**: Here you can either choose *2-Stem*, which will produce 2 new tracks (Instrumental, Vocals), or you can select *4-Stem* which will produce 4 new tracks (Drums, Bass, Other Instruments, Vocals). 
2. **OpenVINO Inference Device**: The OpenVINO™ device that will be used to run the music separation AI model (demucs v4)

After clicking *Apply*, you'll see this dialog window pop up:  
![](loading.png)

At this stage, the Music Separation AI model is getting loaded to the chosen device (e.g. CPU, GPU, etc.). This usually takes 10 to 30 seconds if it's the first time running with this device after installing these plugins since it needs to compile the model specifically for the device you've chosen. This compiled model will be cached on disk though -- so it should run much faster the next time that it is loaded.

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v00d00ppl · February 11, 2025, 10:30pm

Spectralayers is one of the best to do it. What I like when you split the layers on your loop you can set the levels for each layer. Sometimes the atmosphere of the drums get categorized in the vocal or piano layer. What I like to do then is keep the layer but drop the levels. The sample will feel more natural without the metallic artifacts if you over isolate.

sndrsklr · February 16, 2025, 2:03pm

I tested a few options when I tried to decide which software to get and to my ears SpectraLayers had the best quality in terms of stem seperation. The additional options like adjusting volumes of layers, using it as an ARA instance within a DAW and all the other bells and whistles made it a no brainer in the end. During the usual sales you can get it close to half price

tdmusic · December 23, 2025, 1:10pm

I just tried a load of these out of curiosity, with a loop from a techno/trance track by Oliver Lieb that I’ve been trying to recreate for fun.

I found that Moises Pro had the cleanest separation of the individual drums, much less bleed than others and they sounded less mushy (still kind of mushy of course).

Spectralayers sounds way more mushy, and the other ones I tried could not cleanly separate the snare and toms.