Stems Quality / Funcionality / Stem Creator Tool Update

Ninesense

Does anyone know:

• When you seperate a Wav file in stems, are the stems then lossless as well or is the quality reduced? Are the stems Lossless quality? Will the original Wav and the Stems version sound exactly the same when all the stem volumes are up?

• When your tracks don't have vocals (lots of techno, psytrance etc don't have it) what happens to the vocals stem? Will just be empty?If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks!

• NI, will the be an update to the stem creator tool? I currently make my own stems, convert to ALAC so that I can use it with the stem creator which outputs a stem file of Lossless audio.If anyone knows please let me know. THANKS!

Sûlherokhh

Lossless 'should' convert to lossless. I am not sure about this with Traktor, though.

Stacking the stems don't lead to exactly the same master track.

Vocals stem will contain everything the algorithm deems vocals; sometimes it contains snippets of vocal like elements, especially when converting non-vocal tracks.

Only NI knows if there will be an update of the tool, nobody else.

The best answer to all your questions except the last will be to try it yourself. You can download the installer without a license and start it in demo mode for 30min. That should be enough to convert a couple of tracks, exit to save the collection and then restart to test.