A #music question some of my #musician 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 #dolby or Spatial Audio remasters want them. But my tiny non #musical 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?
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

It's a producer term and yes, it just means the multitrack pieces of your production. For example, "I liked your last track, any chance you'd send me the stems and let me do a remix of it?"

AI people didn't invent it, just picked it up and made it more visible to the general public.

in reply to Ether Diver

@etherdiver And based on what other folks are saying a stem could have multiple tracks mixed if they’re related. Like backing vocals would be a stem, even if you recorded each back up vocalist on a different track. Someone asking you for stems wouldn’t want a track with just random backing vocalist number 6.