Back at the Winter NAMM Show in January 2018, I was introduced to a new product from a small outfit by the name of Audionamix, which was showing off a then-new product called XTRAX STEMS.
The promise was a great one for DJs and remixers: Take a song file or track of your choice and, through sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities, extract it into three stems – beats, vocals and “the rest.”
The demo on the show floor was intriguing; I’m not sure I was fully convinced, but the potential was certainly there, and the company quickly provided me with a copy to test.
