I just put it through my monitors and thought it sounded pretty dreadful even for just that purpose - even the first version of Virtual DJ's stems were better at isolating vocals. Releasing it later than everyone else, and with a worse implementation is embarrasing. Releasing a feature after all of your competitors isn't great. Try the same with Rekordbox stems and is sounds awful. It's especially good at making hip-hop acapellas on the fly, which is tremendous fun for open format mixing. Virtual DJ's Version 2 stems aren't perfect, and results vary from track to track - but in some cases the results are very much usable. I don't dispute that the Traktor style implementation is inherently "better" but it doesn't allow for the same level of "in the moment" spontaneity and creativity that AI implementations do - unless you happen to have every one of your tracks in stems format. "I don't understand why everyone now wants this feature instead of piling on massive support for tracks that were getting released as stems back when they first came on the scene" It's not the fact it doesn't sound any better, it's the fact it sounds much, MUCH worse. With RekordBox's effort, it already sounds ropey as hell through my laptop speakers). (For context: When I first used VDJ with its V1 stems, it sounded good on my laptop speakers, then I noticed it wasn't too great once I pumped it through decent monitors. Let's hope the next RB update is a good one. I've got the midi mapping for my DDJ1000 so will have more of a play later - but for now it's disappointing that it sounds vastly inferior to stems options already on the market. It's disappointed me even with stuff I've had great results with before - such as hiphop acapellas - using VDJ. In it's current form, it's not usable as anything other than a toy - the artefacts are really noticable, particularly on vocals. Rekordbox is - IMHO - sub-version 1 in quality, and way behind what can be done in both Serato and VDJ. I've been playing with them for some time in Virtual DJ, which has come on leaps and bounds with its Stems Version 2. While it's good to finally have them, the quality is really disappointing. I've been looking forward to stems finally coming to RekordBox.
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