Thanks for the video! I'm not sure I understand the bit at the beginning about Python? Is that something I need to install as well? I downloaded the "asset" for the CUDA version, unzipped it, ran the exe file and it seems to work. I didn't pre-install any Pyhton stuff though and am worried I may have missed something. Thanks again!

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

Hey Jim. No, what you've downloaded does all the Python stuff in the background, so you don't have to worry about it. You didn't miss anything, and if it's working, you're all good.

THANK YOU for Demucs GUI recommendation. Fast, free, easy and I got my stems. Amazed at remixing with complete separation of bass, drums, guitar and vocals. The size, the price and bigness of SpectralLayers scared me off. Demucs GUI...Done deal for free. Got near perfect drums from favorite songs to now jam to and extract MIDI from. Saved me money !

Thank you! This is really interesting!

Wow thanks man for the heads up, very rad tool!

Watched the comparison video tried to get this software, but ran away in terror when I saw the download process so really appreciate this video. 🎉

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Ben, glad it was useful (and I suspected it would have put people off!)

Thanks. I followed this and installed the cuda variant on my pc. I was really pleasantly surprised. It takes literally 2-3 seconds to split anything I have thrown at it into 6 stems and the results are all very impressive.

this was useful, thank you!

Amazing! Thanks so much for introducing me to this.

@musictechtuition

Ай бұрын

Glad it's been useful!

Great...thanks for the info!

Superb vid. Well done sir. Thks.

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, much appreciated!

WOW! the timing of this is just perfect! My spectralayers 30 day demo is almost finished and the cost of the full program is like buying another DAW! This is pure gold for me...THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU!

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

No worries, glad it was useful!

great!! thanks

Thanks bro

Great tutorial. What if I dont want Other but guitar and synths apart ?

It's fine for modern music. I'm hoping for the ability to split out lead instruments from instrumental tracks, like a flute solo, or some Chinese instruments (Dizi, Hulusi). I haven't heard of anything that can do that yet.

Can Demucs GUI create click tracks?

"The overlap of programmers and music producers are quite a narrow one" Progressive rock/metal musicians: "Are we a joke to you???"

Was looking forward to using this but Norton flagged every file/dll as a problem so wouldn't load.

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

I've seen a couple of people mention this; I've not had any issues with it, and it's also not flagged by Malwarebytes on either Windows or macOS (the one AV/AM solution that I trust), so I'm not aware of any actual issues with it; a lot of it is either easy-to-check Python or stuff like pytorch which is generally possible to check for having been messed with.

Has anyone encountered a model that is able to separate snare or kick? If yes that will be a gating game changer. (Fadr+ and Spectralayers can do it - and maybe there's some obscurely named model out there for Demucs that can do it as well.)

RipX as I have it and Spleeter destroy bass tone-overtones giving a muddy phasey mess - does this one do better?

@musictechtuition

Ай бұрын

I did a pretty in-depth comparison here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmGTq81-aNbPfNI.html - and generally it was similar to RipX (as I think it uses the same algorithm), but I also found that it varies considerably depending on the source material.

the cpu version just crashes and does not load on my pc. how can i fix it?

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

The log file should give you some idea of what's happening - it should be in your home folder (I think it's hidden on Windows).

I've no idea how to unzip the file. If I click open with, the option is the 7 zip installer. How do you get using 7 zip as an option?

@musictechtuition

15 күн бұрын

Download 7-zip here - 7-zip.org/ - then once that's installed you should be good to unzip and use demucs GUI.

@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn

15 күн бұрын

​@@musictechtuition​@musictechtuition I did download 7-zip, and tried a different unzipping program, but I couldn't get 7-zip as an option, and the other one unzipped it within itself, but I couldn't find where it stored it. I'll try again later, but I spent over an hour on it, downloading it twice, and that was enough time and data spent on it at the time. I have some old recordings of my band, so being able to separate them rather just remaster would be great. I'll see if that link is any different to what I used, thanks.

@musictechtuition

14 күн бұрын

@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn If you're on windows, you should be able to right-click the file, and then from there pick 7-Zip > Extract To (folder name) and you should be good?

@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn

14 күн бұрын

​@@musictechtuitionI haven't got back to it, but that's what I was asking, I'm on Windows 10, and I'm not getting that option, so I wondered if I needed to do something to have that on the menu. I'll try again later today though.

Why was my comment removed? I like your videos and am curious as to why you don't mention Ultimate Vocal Remover, which is similar to Demucs Gui. Cheers

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

Your comment wasn't removed - I'm not sure what you're referring to; I've only removed (I think!) 5 comments in the entire decade I've been on YT, and they were pretty clear candidates for deletion! I didn't mention UVR5 as I wasn't aware it did splitting (only removal), and made reference to this in another comment on the other video on spltting comparisons, but as it uses demucs I think the results would be largely the same (although I have found it to be slower than demucs-gui). Not sure how to reference a link to a comment, but on the other video you'll see I responded to louminati4318's comment on UVR5.

@alexcompton8584

3 ай бұрын

thanks for your reply@@musictechtuition

@PracticaProphetica

2 ай бұрын

KZread probably removed it. They don't allow (in most cases) posting of web links, etc. Maybe you triggered one of their "forbidden" words. It's really awful these days...completely innocuous comments get deleted with no explanation.

Does this work as well as Spectral Layers10 ??

@rikkshow

3 ай бұрын

Marginally better than SL10.

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

Have a look at the comparison video linked in the description; generally I found it to be on a par with SL10 and RipX (both of which use demucs), but it can be model and source dependent, so it's difficult to give a defininitive answer.

@rikkshow

3 ай бұрын

You can run two different algo's after one another and get marginally better results than the commercial apps. At no cost.

@rldivide

3 ай бұрын

Note that Demucs GUI won't allow you to do post-fixing/rebalancing after the AI has been applied.

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

@@rldivide Absolutely. There's a lot more to Spectralayers than stem splitting, and no more to demucs-GUI than stem splitting - they're very different in that respect.

I can't get it to work at all, I downloaded the latest version, says I needed to install another file which download, but came with no instructions where to install it, I think I figured it out but the program just froze and did nothing :(

@musictechtuition

Ай бұрын

Are you on macOS or Windows? How far through the process do you get?

@NIGH.NE.

Ай бұрын

@@musictechtuition I'm on windows 11, I followed your install process. Your video shows 3 options for download but now there's only 2 for me. After installation I got a pop up message about the GPU needing to download another file which I did but was unsure where I was supposed to place it afterwards.

@musictechtuition

Ай бұрын

@@NIGH.NE. What was the other file?

@NIGH.NE.

Ай бұрын

@@musictechtuition it was a dll file, something about intel GPU, I think it was to do with AOT or something like that!

@NIGH.NE.

Ай бұрын

@@musictechtuition I figured it out, it was asking if I wanted to download the AOT version because it had detected Intel GPU acceleration :)

interesting.. why none examples?

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

In depth comparison of multiple stem splitting software here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmGTq81-aNbPfNI.html

I think this comparison will be obsolete again in just a few months. Things are moving quickly in the AI world. My guess is that GANs will be the next step: As an experienced musician I know what a hihat should sound and what drummers typically play on a hihat, my brain adds frequencies and hits back if I try to isolate the hihat in my brain, even if they are not in the recording anymore. GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) could do exactly that. Then you would reconstruct a believable sounding stem, that contains more information than your original recording (but these were only "guessed" based on the typical sound and playing of an instrument).

@musictechtuition

2 ай бұрын

I think it probably will be semi-obsolote, but I'm not sure about GANs replacing these sort of tools any time soon. I actually think you're onto something with that, and I've thought that would be a good way for video 'restoration' for a long time (I think it was about 8 years ago during a long classroom discussion I first brought this up). But the main problem with GANs at the moment is a lack of control over the process, and also they will still create audio which is generated via ML, so it's probably going to sound like AI music generation tools (where in my experience things like kick drums don't have the attack and power than a fresh, clean sample will do).

✔️ Promo sm

Demucs works great and fast here. But a header seriously claiming that it is as good as Spectralayers and RipX is a completely misleading overstatment from my view. Both of the latter offer a lot of functionality that Demucs does not have, from more than just four stems up to vast analyzing and editing functions, in complete song overview. I wouldn't consider replacing Rip-X or Spectralayers by Demucs on my system, not for a second! Only in cases, when I want only the four stems get done fast, and nothing else, I use Demucs.

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

I don't think the title claims that - It says that the stem splitting is as good as RipX and Spectralayers, and I think it is from the testing I did in a previous video. In the summary of that video I also say that both RipX and Spectralayers offer a lot of editing potential not present in Demucs GUI, but that if you're only using the stem splitting capability (and most of my clients who have either piece of software are primarily or solely using them for that function alone) then demucs GUI is a better option in terms of speed, workflow and cost (if you've not bought SL or RipX yet).

Wot. No demo? 😒

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

In depth comparison of multiple stem splitting software here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmGTq81-aNbPfNI.html

@-Deena.

3 ай бұрын

@@musictechtuition Watched it already. 🧡This wasn't one of them?

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

@@-Deena.Yes, it was in there - in the summary it's one of two solutions I suggest to use (along with ai-lyd.no if you want top quality) precisely because it works around as well as SL10 and RipX but is much faster (and no extra cost if you don't own the other two).

@-Deena.

3 ай бұрын

@@musictechtuition How did I miss it! Thank you 🧡

@user-uc2ou2ct8n

3 ай бұрын

Very comprehensive explanation's and walkthrough's helpful for all from beginners to pro's alike. Thank you so much. x

Kaspersky detects demux GUI as a malware ! Definitely not recommend, seems dodgy... don't know if other users had the samedi experience

@musictechtuition

3 ай бұрын

I haven't had any issues with it on Windows or macOS (otherwise I wouldn't have made the video), and Malwarebytes doesn't see any issues with it. What is the actual report for this in Kaspersky?

@PracticaProphetica

2 ай бұрын

Worked fine here, but I'm using Windows Security. Some of the commercial and even free Antivirus tools are just too sensitive.