adapt.separate_stems takes a finished, mixed track and splits it into its parts (“stems”), each as its own file. Use it to make an instrumental or a vocal-only version of a song, to remix or re-balance a track, or to pull out a drum loop.
The request
There is nothing else to choose: every request returns all five stems.
Every field, with its exact rules: submit and poll in the API Reference.
Example
This separates a song and saves each stem as<kind>.flac. It uses the reference client; save soundpiece.py or soundpiece.mjs next to it first.
The result
run returns the finished stems object, with one entry in outputs per stem:
Choosing parameters
There are none to choose, but a few things help:- Start from the best copy you have. A WAV or FLAC separates more cleanly than a heavily compressed MP3.
- Want only an instrumental? Download just the
instrumentalstem; it is already the track minus its vocals, so you don’t need to mix the others back together. - Want new music in the same style instead? Look at
create.remix_songorcreate.remix_instrumental.
Errors
When you submit (the request is refused, nothing is charged):
While processing (the operation finishes as
failed, with an error.code):
Source limits for this endpoint: WAV, MP3 or FLAC, from 1 second to 5 minutes long, and at most 50 MB.
See Errors for the response shapes, and for the errors every endpoint can return (
401, 403, 429).
