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Stem separator program/plugin

Post by MDslammer »

Hello guys,

Hope you're all well.

I have a question.

What do you use to separate drum track that has percussion as well.

I would like to isolate the kick, toms, snare, cymbals, and rhe percussion instruments.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you.

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You're going to be hard-pushed to find something that goes down to that level of granularity, and I'm not aware of anything that claims to do it. The best you may get is something that separates the drums and percussion, leaving you with some manual editing to go further.

Steinberg's Spectralayers is pretty good, IME, but don't expect miracles...
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Re: Stem separator program/plugin

Post by Luke W »

Acon Digital Remix:Drums will give you six signals: Kick, Snare, Hi-Hats, Cymbals, Toms and Other. I've not used it in anger, but it's pretty impressive.

It can be bought on its own, or as a bundle with DeBleed:Drums.

https://acondigital.com/products/drum-production-suite
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Post by ore_terra »

The Elf wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 8:57 am Steinberg's Spectralayers is pretty good, IME, but don't expect miracles...

it's great indeed. it has improved in the last version actually. close to the miracle depending on how busy the track is, but not yet 100% there as the elf is saying.
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Re: Stem separator program/plugin

Post by James Perrett »

The Elf wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 8:57 am You're going to be hard-pushed to find something that goes down to that level of granularity, and I'm not aware of anything that claims to do it.

A year ago I would have agreed with you but things are moving rapidly in this field although you won't find the usual plug-in vendors selling this yet.

As always, if you are interested in stem separation or reverb removal then you need the latest Ultimate Vocal Remover and you also need to download some new models for it.

There's a link to the latest beta version of UVR halfway down the page at

https://github.com/anjok07/ultimatevoca ... i/releases

and the drum separation model is currently at

https://huggingface.co/Politrees/UVR_re ... redou.ckpt

though that may change.
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Re: Stem separator program/plugin

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James Perrett wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:19 am
The Elf wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 8:57 am You're going to be hard-pushed to find something that goes down to that level of granularity, and I'm not aware of anything that claims to do it.

A year ago I would have agreed with you but things are moving rapidly in this field although you won't find the usual plug-in vendors selling this yet.


Luke W wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:15 am Acon Digital Remix:Drums

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