Stem Player


https://www.stemplayer.com/

So this was announced by Kanye West himself lately and I find the device itself quite interesting. It claims to be able to take any song you play through it, and let you pick out every sound individually. Since basically all music is a sample of old music nowadays, if this device does what it claims, it would truly change the game. Especially in electronic, pop, and hiphop where almost every song is a sample. However, I'm more curious in how this device functions. Is it just an eq device more than anything? Any ideas? Not much actual information on it. 
akwilson501
@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. 
@dweller would also be an easy way for artists to bite your sound easily(without copyright permission).
@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 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. 
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.