![]() It's a ton of work, but can yield better results than simply mixing the stems "as is" into 5.1. a guitar stem that contains multiple guitar tracks mixed into stereo), you can effectively split stuff that is centered versus wide in the mix, allowing you to separate some of the premixed elements into the front and rears of your homemade 5.1 mix. If you use that software on stereo stems (i.e. If you want to get really fancy, there is a lot of software out there designed to create upmixes from stereo mixes. and give yourself more to work with in a mix. Sometimes you can use digital editing to separate elements from stereo stems to isolate guitar solos, keyboard parts, etc. I've had some success making my own 5.1 mixes from these stems. ![]() This severely limits your options for 5.1 mixes. Some just have 5 stems to work with: vocals, drums, bass, guitars, and everything else on another stem. Some are effectively less than poor mp3 quality and you need to clean up the tracks before working with them. Like others have mentioned, there are literally 1000's of rock band and guitar hero stems out there that you can remix into 5.1, but audio quality varies. They were stems rather than multi-track beds (some of the tracks contain multiple elements so remix options are somewhat limited). I'll add that Radiohead also made 2 tracks (Nude and Reckoner) available to fans to remix. There ARE sometimes actual genuine multitracks (the raw lossless multitrack with no alterations) given to audio engineering schools for the students to work/practice with. The condition of what's out there is all over the map. Sometimes though - especially if the stereo release might have only been available as a volume war CD - you can get away with things and genuinely make an improvement (even if still technically compromised). If you try to remix from these, most of your time will be spent on restoration work and you still won't quite be able to hit the original fidelity. These are further stepped on from format reductions (they're all run through the mp3 meat grinder even if you find them put back into a lossless container) as well as the same limiting/boosting and the bright eq to hype the levels that is often done to CD versions of albums. 'Mix stems' like this will (should) add up to the final mix when simply lined up and the faders are at unity. The guitar track might be a stereo guitar bus that is a submix of 6 guitar parts and all the processing (eq'ing, dynamics, ambience, reflections, etc) baked in. For example, the vocal will be the vocal bus with all the mix processing and further any reverb/delay ambience dialed up. Meaning they are renders of the subgroups. ![]() ![]() This is a library and executable that allow you to export the sheet music (in PDF format) and audio (in WAV format) to tracks that you have purchased. These are generally REALLY stepped on! They're also not multitrack stems but 'mix stems'. Jammit is a service and associated app for Windows/Mac/iOS that sells isolated instrument audio tracks from popular music, along with full transcriptions. Most of these come from the Rockband game or the Jammit website. ![]()
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