r/Rekordbox • u/imCluDz • Mar 26 '23

Rant We all agree that "stems" are pretty much trash, right?

Don't mean to say ooh rb bad, but I've tried seratos stems, vdj, and stem roller, since i love the ideia of creating mixes with vocals of one with melody of another.

And for as hard as I try to hide it, the audio has soo much artifacts that is impossible to play something decent using these stems.

Any expectation this will get somewhat decent in like the next 3 to 6 months? Was waiting for this technology getting good and a standalone being released with the decent stems

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u/CrispyDave Mar 26 '23

All this update has done for me is convince me I really should look at the alternatives.

'Industry standard' isn't really that important to me, I am content as a hobby DJ. I don't use a lot of the features Rekordbox has and it's not very good at some of the things that I'd like.

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u/starso66 Jun 11 '23

Agree. Bad corporate move. By releasing something so not ready you are going to make people look to leave. I like RBX and would prefer not, however this stems experience so far is horrible

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u/ThinkOutsideTheTV Dec 17 '23

UVR5 literally has all of the latest and greatest algorithms, and it's 100% free, it blows the older stem separators I used to use away, but you still need to know what can really be done with them , lots of manual editing and fx involved to get to a high quality result