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Samuel ProulxA #music question some of my #musician followers might be able to answer: what’s the difference between stems and tracks? Recently AI has been talking a lot about stems for music. And apparently people who make #dolby or Spatial Audio remasters want them. But my tiny non #musical brain can’t understand how stems and tracks are different. I know that tracks are, like, in a multitrack editor like audacity you could have one track for vocals, and maybe one track for each instrument. And AI websites that offer stems seem to do the same thing?Did the AI people just reinvent multitrack recording and call tracks stems?
@fastfinge in general stems are submixes, not single tracks. Like a stereo stem with the drum, or a stereo stem with all the backing vocals together.
@Skeybu Ah so like a stem could have multiple tracks and a song could have multiple stems? So stems are just a way to organize related tracks.
@fastfinge I'm not sure I get what you mean. In general, they're supposed to be mixdowns, with compression and eqs (for example) rendered for that group. The point is that you may want to change the level of "the drums in relation to the guitars", but not mess up with the kick, the hh, the snare. For example you may send stems for a mastering where the master engineer isn't supposed to change the way things sounds but maybe just slightly change their correlation for mastering purposes.