Top 3 AI Stem Splitters – Or Download Song Stems for Every Music Track from Soundstripe

(TLDR: If you want unlimited access to radio-quality music (with song stems), check out our pricing options. Plans start at $20/month.)

Adding music to video is no easy task. Or, at least it used to not be. In the old days of video editing an editor had to laboriously chop up audio tracks to fit them into their videos. And, if you were using several audio tracks across longer content or lots of videos, this could take a LONG time.

However, thanks to modern advancements in audio and video editing technology, there are many ways to quickly and efficiently edit music into your videos. One of those ways is to download song stems that are tailored to help you easily add music to your videos.

This is why we at Soundstripe are proud to offer music stems download options with every song in our catalog.. So let’s explore how these song stem tracks can give our creators more control and flexibility when layering music content into videos—and give you more options for using AI stem splitting tools to edit your videos even more efficiently.

What are song stems in music?

Music stems are the individual audio files for different harmonic elements (drums, guitars, bass, vocals, etc.) that can be combined to create entire songs.

Most songs are created by stacking different layers of instruments on top of each other. For example, a jazz song might include a piano stem, saxophone stem, drum stem, and more.

Why are song stems important?

Having access to song stems gives creators more power and control over the music they want to use. For example, you might find a song that you would love to use for your film underscore, however there may be a set of instruments that you don’t like in one section of the song. For example, let’s say you find the drums too heavy in the chorus of a song.

Stems give you the ability to fix this issue. Instead of using the normal audio file and making peace with that annoying instrument, you can use stems to remove it. All you have to do is download the song stems, drag them all into your project, and then delete the sections from the drums stem that you don’t want. Now, you should have the entire song you love, minus the parts you dislike.

Or maybe you want to use a song with vocals, but there's a short section of your project involving dialog, and you don't want the singer distracting from this scene. In this scenario, you could pull in the song's stems, and remove the vocals during all of your parts while speaking. 

This would allow you to keep using a song with vocals without distracting from the message that you want to have heard.

Best AI Stem Splitting Tools

Now that we’ve covered what song stems are and why they’re so important, let’s go over how to get stems of songs for your audio tracks. Please keep in mind though, if you’re looking to download song stems right now—Soundstripe offers stems for the royalty free music tracks in our library. (So, if you want to get started right away, you can dive in here.)

If you are looking for some powerful AI music splitter tools for your own audio or music, here are three of the top options currently on the market.

Splitter AI

Splitter AI is a Swedish research company that has developed some pretty sophisticated audio processing technologies, including an AI-powered stem splitting tool that can isolate instruments from music using the latest machine learning software.

Splitter’s technology and music has actually been featured in multiple Hollywood films Fast & Furious 7, Men in Black: International, and Paws of Fury, so you know it’s capable of being used by some of the most seasoned pros.

As far as pricing and capabilities go, Splitter AI is free to use, but if you want the premium AI features (like stem splitting), you'll need to pay a monthly or yearly subscription fee.

LALAL AI

Like Splitter AI, LALAL AI is another high-quality stem splitting tool powered by some of the top AI technology. With LALALA, users can extract vocals, accompaniments, and even various instruments from any audio track or video footage.

As a next-generation vocal remover and music source separation technology, LALAL is known for its fast, easy, and precise stem extraction. It also offers lots of customization, as you can remove single instruments like drums, bass, piano, electric guitar, etc.… without quality loss.

LALAL is also a subscription-based service that offers one-time fees as low as $18 for its Lite pack option. This is another great option for those looking to use AI to split stems from their own music and audio.

Voice AI

Finally, we have a free AI stem splitter option with Voice AI. Voice AI lets users separate their music tracks by isolating vocals, instruments, beats, basslines, and more. The company boasts that it offers unrivaled precision, which can help editors take control of every element in their audio tracks and experience audio processes redefined.

As mentioned above, Voice AI is an attractive option because it’s free to use, unlike many other AI-powered stem splitting tools currently available online. Voice AI also offers a handful of other nice AI-powered audio editing features, like a vocal remover, voice changer, and echo remover, which are all worth trying out and exploring.

How to Find Stem Tracks

Stem tracks are available with our Pro subscription plans.  To find stem tracks, simply click the advanced filter section and select Stems:

Alternate versions are not stems; instead, they provide shorter clips of the full track, but with full instrumentation. Stem tracks are pared down to a single harmonic element.

Once a song has been selected you can select the Stems download option via the download modal:

The Download button can also be accessed from the My Downloads Page to access stems from a previously-licensed track:

Interested in using the benefits of stems on your next project?  Get a subscription or upgrade to Pro today!