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Serato adds on-the-fly stem isolation and effects to its DJ app
Serato DJ launches its newest public beta today, including the Serato Stems tool for audio isolation and effects on-the-fly.
Courtney Barnett's web app lets you remix her latest singles
Courtney Barnett has released a stem mixer that lets you rethink her latest album using nothing but your web browser.
Kanye West's new album 'Donda' arrives on a remix-it-yourself gadget
Kanye West has introduced a Stem Player music-making gadget that can mix the core ingredients of songs, including those from 'Donda.'
Djay Pro uses AI to turn songs into acapellas and instrumentals on-the-fly
Algoriddim leveraged AI for an update to its djay Pro software a couple years back, improving its Automix capability. It seems the company has been developing some more interesting uses since then with today’s launch of Neural Mix, as part of the new djay Pro AI.
DJs can buy remix-friendly 'Stems' music files starting today
Back in March, Native Instruments -- the company behind the ubiquitous Traktor DJ software -- announced Stems: a music format that lets DJs and remixers to control individual parts of a track. Today Stems launches to the buying public on a number of popular music stores including Beatport and Traxsource have them listed already, Bleep, Juno, whatpeopleplay, and Wasabeat will also be selling them. For years DJs and producers' only chance of finding a cappella versions of songs was to hope a vocal-only recording existed. The advent of the internet made finding these a little easier, but they were still rare. Expensive software can sometimes help you surgically remove parts or a track, or isolate vocals, but the results aren't always very clean. Stems makes all that a thing of the past.
Native Instruments' open music format is designed for DJ mixes
DJ equipment has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, but digital music formats? Not so much -- unless your software is clever enough, you usually have to mix whole tracks rather than just the parts that make sense for your set. Native Instruments aims to fix that with Stems, a free and open file format tailor-made for the DJ crowd. The tracks will play as usual in most music apps, but the right software lets you independently control the bass, drums, melody and vocals. You could drop singing if you don't want it during a transition, for instance, or apply effects to the beat without touching anything else.
