

If your gear is compatible, you just switch out a pad mode (eg the sampler), and you get simple, great sounding, easy on/off buttons for the available stems, plus some “done for you” FX
VIRTUAL DJ 2023 STEMS 2.0 PRO
So, VirtualDJ vs Serato vs djay Pro AI vs Rekordbox – which one wins? Let’s find out… Ease of use Visually, the way the waveforms work in Serato is cool – They fade to grey when stems are enabled, with only the selected stems remaining in colour, which in practice means it’s easy to see what you’ve left in and cut out. Which Is The Best DJ Software For Stems In 2023? and finally, Pioneer DJ launched its take on stems, “Track Separation” alongside a new flagship controller, the DDJ-FLX10. Then Serato recently announced a beta before successfully launching its own stems, along with great hardware from Rane (the Rane Four, of course). Read this next: DJ Jazzy Jeff’s 3 Tips For DJing With Stemsįirst Algoriddim added it to its djay Pro AI macOS and iOS software (they called it “Neural Mix”), then VirtualDJ literally a day later announced it in its own platform, bringing it to Windows users as well as Mac for the first time. And in the last few years, it has become a reality.

The ability to do this – especially to separate the vocals (or “acapellas”) from the instruments – is a bit of a holy grail for many a creative DJ. But in DJ software, “stems” describes usually four parts – vocals, drums, bassline and melody – that some modern software can let the DJ isolate or remove from their music in real time.

Stems are the parts of a song that make up the whole, and in a studio there may be dozens of them.
