Use six-stem separation for practice and remix preparation
Work with vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other stems; check leakage before muting or rebuilding a mix.
Six-stem separation estimates vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other parts from a mixed recording. Standard mode in LA Studio runs in your browser. The outputs are estimates, not the original multitrack session.
Choose the result you need
| Task | Keep | Check first |
|---|---|---|
| Drum practice | Everything except drums | Snare and hi-hat bleed in other stems |
| Bass transcription | Bass | Kick bleed and interrupted low notes |
| Acapella extraction | Vocals | Guitar/cymbal bleed and missing phrase endings |
| Piano practice | Everything except piano | Keyboard sounds assigned to Other |
Move from separation to the DAW
- Choose your file in Stem Separation and run Standard six-stem processing.
- Listen to each part alone, then combine the parts you need. An isolated stem can sound imperfect yet still work in the intended mix.
- Download the stems as WAV or send them to the editor. Align them at the same start position.
- Mute the part you want to practice. Also mute the original recording; otherwise its copy of the missing instrument will still play.
Why muting Guitar may leave guitar behind
Distorted guitars and synths can have similar characteristics. Some guitar may be assigned to Other. Muting Other as well can remove sounds you wanted to keep. For rehearsal, reducing the interfering part can be more useful than pursuing complete removal.
How HQ two-stem mode differs
HQ Vocal Separation is a cloud mode for vocals and accompaniment. It does not serve the same purpose as six separate instrument outputs. Choose according to the parts you need. Standard runs locally; HQ sends audio to a server.
Keep exports aligned
Trimming silence separately from every stem makes later alignment harder. Keep the same starting point and store the editing set together. Check the original recording's usage conditions before distributing stems or publishing a remix.
Listen to all six actual outputs
The Standard six-stem example includes the input mix and every output. This teaching mix uses a vocal and synthetic backing, not six recorded instruments. Check for audio assigned to stems whose instruments were absent.
A recorded-guitar example for practice
We combined a performed acoustic-guitar recording with a separate vocal take, then separated the 15-second teaching mix in Standard mode. Listen to the input, guitar output, and the other five parts. The five-part comparison combines downloaded WAVs at the same start position and gain.
To repeat it, load the input WAV, preview guitar on its own, and use Download. Align the individual stems in your DAW and mute guitar. A guitar label does not mean that every guitar component is confined to that track; listen for leakage into the other parts too. The example includes source credits and preparation conditions.