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Topic: Exporting stems for use in a DAW
Beginner here.

I want to create stems (acapella, bass, high hats etc) in Virtual DJ then export to a DAW.

I have successfully exported stems but they are slightly different from the options that appear on the deck interface. For example, the exported stems include "Beat" instead of the separate Kick and High Hats stems on the Deck interface buttons.

And I'd love to have a Bass stem but that does not seem to be exportable.

Am I missing something? Thanks
 
Posted Sat 20 Jul 24 @ 11:34 am
 
Posted Sat 20 Jul 24 @ 1:24 pm
To add to what @klaus has said, here's the actual ffmpeg extract line I use from a python script on a prepared vdjstems file (the channels and what they contain should be self explanatory from the filenames, and I normally prepare the stems from a lossless file):


ffmpeg -i <path to vdjstems file> -map 0:a:0 Vocals.flac -map 0:a:1 HiHat.flac -map 0:a:2 Bass.flac -map 0:a:3 Melody.flac -map 0:a:4 Drums.flac


If you are looking for a more granular extraction (e.g. particular instruments), then I don't think VirtualDJ is the tool to do that - AFAIK it doesn't allow for that kind of extraction (devs correct if I'm wrong here).
 
Posted Sat 20 Jul 24 @ 2:06 pm
 
Posted Sat 20 Jul 24 @ 2:18 pm
Thanks very much for the responses everyone.

I tried Klaus's ffmpeg/audacity method and it worked perfectly!

Thanks again
 
Posted Sat 20 Jul 24 @ 6:14 pm