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I understand it's early in development cycle but I'm so fascinated by the idea . . .
lemme know

Best to post this in the beta specific Centercode Public Beta user forum

and I've given stems separation a little experimental play and it's pretty solid for the bassline . . .
anyone else w/feedback ?

I use Spectralayers and RX. To my surprise, The Live version is often doing its job better.
The spectralayers one offers a better workflow by its very nature, because you still can copy/paste between layers (for exemple, take some drums elements that were placeed in the "others" track and move them back to drums).
But I find that very often the Ableton Live stem separation is working better.

The only thing I'm missing is the choice of 32-bits for the exports, so I can copy/paste as often I want between tracks witout reducing quality...

P.S. : I must say I don't use stem separation very often, as I don't truly need this feature. It usually helps only to analyze a reference song...

I use it to isolate live drums and bass from rehearsal recordings, to quickly get a solid base for the home studio demo of the songs we're working on.

I just record the rehearsal space in stereo using the built-in mics on my 32-bit Tascam recorder. No need to put separate mics all over the drum kit and somehow keep all the other instruments quiet: we just play through the new song like we normally would.

Then at home I isolate the drums and bass, and use Superior Drummer to layer the kick, snare and toms with close-mic'd samples. Combined with the isolated recording for cymbals, this makes for a surprisingly good, wide, detailed, roomy, natural and powerful drum track.

Since we play to a click anyway, I can just drop the drums and bass into the project along with the guitars, vocals and synths I've been recording at home. This has proven to be a great workflow to quickly get good-sounding demos without having to take out extra time to record drums and bass separately.

I started out experimenting with various models in UVR5, but I get better results out of the box with Live's stem separation. The drums sound as clean as if there never was a full doom/death metal band playing along in the same room, without the artefacts and phasing/filtering effects i was getting with UVR5.

The only thing I'd like is a little more control over what gets recognized as what: when our bassist plays higher up the neck, those notes aren't always recognized as bass notes – something UVR5 also struggled with. But for drums, it's been impeccable.

Finding it cool that(anecdotally) drums and bass are workable. I'm too squeamish to isolate my own vocal from 20yrs ago ! Yikes
I've only experimented with bass stem audio from random streamed song in high Q mode & yeah, it took about a cup of coffee in the other room to complete stem separation > convert to midi > loop that w/a Drift instrument > Successfully
I've give it more run next - anyone else ?