AI stem separation for Ableton Live

Stem separation splits a mixed track into isolated drums, bass, vocals, and other elements so you can sample, remix, or study arrangement without the original multitrack. Producers use it to grab a snare from a reference, build bootleg remixes, or learn how a bassline sits in a mix. The traditional workflow meant exporting audio, uploading to a web service, waiting for processing, downloading stems, then dragging them back into Ableton. Every tweak required another round trip.

How do producers do this manually in Ableton?

VIXSOUND runs Demucs — a state-of-the-art open-source model — locally on your Mac, so separation happens inside Ableton with zero uploads. Drop a reference track into a VIXSOUND chat, type "separate stems", and the assistant extracts drums, bass, vocals, and other into new audio tracks on your timeline. Each stem lands on its own channel with volume faders ready, so you can mute the vocal, sidechain the bass to your kick, or resample the drums into a Drum Rack. Because processing is local, your audio never leaves your machine and you own every stem outright — no royalties, no attribution, no usage limits.

How does VIXSOUND speed this up?

This changes remix and sampling workflows from a multi-app export loop into a single chat command. You can separate a 90s house track at 124 BPM, grab the isolated bassline, pitch it down in Simpler, and layer it under your own sub in under a minute. Or pull the vocal stem from a pop reference, time-stretch it in Warp, and build a new drop around it. Stem separation inside Ableton means the creative idea and the technical execution happen in the same window.