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A question some of my 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 or Spatial Audio remasters want them. But my tiny non 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?
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JimmyChezPants @jpaskaruk@growers.social
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@fastfinge Near as I can tell, a track is a thing that a human makes by creating noise into a microphone or line input, which is then combined with other tracks and makes a song.

Again near as I can tell, a stem is when you take the finished product, and apply EQs and algos to isolate a single part of the song.

Anyone feel free to correct me, but this is my impression.
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Chris Smart @VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio
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@fastfinge I've always thought of stems as groups of tracks. For instance, the kick, snare, each tom, hi-hat, crash symbol, etc. is an individual track, but combined, they are the drums stem.
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