LALAL.AI announces The Stem Separator plug-in

LALAL.AI has launched a new plug-in version of its stem separation browser software.

It is aimed at everyone from producers looking to extract individual stems for remixes or other productions to music teachers and students wanting to practice on specific instrument parts.

The new plug-in builds on the company’s 2020-originating stem separation platform, which allows users to separate their audio into up to ten stems, including vocals, drums and synths. Now, the new plug-in will allow users to split vocals and instrumental tracks directly within their chosen DAW, with multi-stem separation for up to six different instrument types planned for the future.

LALAL.AI said the plug-in is intended to help “stop tab jumping and repetitive uploading” and allow music-makers to “stick to what they’re there for: making music”.

“Isolating vocals or making a purely instrumental track can happen as fluidly as a producer or artist does any other task inside their preferred software,” LALAL.AI co-founder Nik Pogorsky said in a press statement, shared by MusicRadar.

“Professionals are already adopting tools like LALAL.AI because they solve key problems for them. We’ve simply put that tool right where they need it, in their workstation, so that they can get more creative without getting dragged out of their flow.”

The Stem Separator plug-in works with macOS, Windows, and Linux and is available only to subscribers of LALAL.AI’s Pro tier, priced at $15/month.

AI-powered stem separation tools in the music production space have grown increasingly common since the late 2010s. In 2023, a new version of VirtualDJ was released with a stem separation engine added for “studio-like quality”, while last September, Ableton added a stem separation tool to its Live 12.3 update.