Music stems for sequencers / mixing for backing tracks

[Jolltax]

I am exploring the idea of using stems to create backing tracks, filling in missing instruments. Currently the band I play in just lost its rhythm guitarist and has no keyboards. I also like the idea of making my own custom practice tracks.

 

Where would you go to get good quality stems, so far I found this place, Karaoke Version seems OK 

 

I also use Moises, its an AI separation tool which is very good for practice and helping making tabs / transcriptions for music but the stems it creates are not of high quality so I wouldn't want to use them with a band etc

 

Any thoughts?

 

J

 

This long video explains the process I am looking at pretty well except ill be using FL Studio as a DAW and probably my phone to play the tracks :

 

 

 

[lowdown]

1 hour ago, Jolltax said:

 

I also use Moises, its an AI separation tool which is very good for practice and helping making tabs / transcriptions for music but the stems it creates are not of high quality so I wouldn't want to use them with a band etc

 

 

I use Steinberg's 'SpectraLayers' for stem splitting (and a whole host of other things).

The quality and results are very good, and it has just got even better with the recent update. 

Maybe a bit pricey, but if you hold out for the annual Steinberg sales, you can usually get most Steinberg products at 50% off, which is what I did about four years ago.

Steinberg are good at giving good favourable discounts on all the new version updates.

 

SpectraLayers 12

[Dad3353]

2 hours ago, Jolltax said:

... Any thoughts?...

 

Have a scout around here...

 

Cambridge Music Technology : Mixing Secrets Resources ...

 

A lot of very high quality, and varied, stems; very useful for exactly what you're looking for, I think. 

[BigRedX]

I make my own. My band uses computer backing for drums and some additional synth, which I create.

[Jolltax]

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

I make my own. My band uses computer backing for drums and some additional synth, which I create.

 

That's awesome if you play all the instruments, I only play bass 

 

I see two usage cases for remixing my own tracks from stems:

• High quality practice tracks customised for myself (without bass) or for others (excluding their parts), possibility to add click track and prompts for in ears in future
• Current band has guitar, bass, drums, vocalist - could use STEM's to build custom tracks to add keys and additional guitar

Also easy to create the tracks in the correct key as the band often decide to pay in different key to the original.  I downloaded the stems for three tracks yesterday and have since been messing around in FL Studio, its going quite well!

 

J

[BigRedX]

If you can push some buttons with your fingers then you can program drums and keys. That’s all I do.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

If you can push some buttons with your fingers then you can program drums and keys. That’s all I do.

 

I had a cat that could do that, too. 

 

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