Stem Player

Trying to understand it's basic function. What does it do?

I would run away from anything Kanye West is involved with.  

I’ll believe it when I hear it. Although there is already various software that can do that, it’s not very good with lots of cross talk. If he can fund-build one with no cross-talk between instruments, and also voices, that would be a game changer. As for how… just better algorithms and AI software that can distinguish the difference between instruments. 

@dweller takes an incoming song and breaks it all apart, letting you have access to each sound(voice,guitar,piano...) separately, without anything else in the song playing. 

@stereo5 "yeezy season approaching f@#$ whatever yall been hearin" lol sorry, I'm a huge fan. 

@akwilson501 - Thanks for the explanation. I've wondered why record companies don't do this with their multi-tracked masters? They could issue CD sets with missing tracks (voice, guitar, drums, etc.) and sell them in music stores or where ever. Would be an easy way to make money. 

@dweller would also be an easy way for artists to bite your sound easily(without copyright permission).

"Bite"? What's that?

Break the sound into sound bytes is what I think that means.

@dweller bite as in steal

Low-lifes can't do that from a CD?

@dweller its really hard to sample anything that has drums in it. It messes with the song you are trying to make. It limits your choices to parts of songs that don't have drums being used. I will say, I personally think art should be considered "open platform" and should be able to be used freely by anybody, without having to pay anyone for using it. Thats an entirely different discussion though, and a quite lengthy one at that. To say a musician has to pay to use a specific rhythm, rift, or chord is insane. So when will people have to stop creating and start paying.