F.A.Q.

What is PhonicMind's Stem maker?

PhonicMind was started as a vocal remover service in 2017. Two years later, we evolved in to a Stem maker. All methods used up until 2017 trying to remove vocals where based on phase differences of stereo tracks and some frequency custom selections. Some academics even tried to figure out repeating patterns in songs and separate vocals in that way, as vocals usually do not have a repeating pattern. None of these methods really worked at an optimum level.

PhonicMind's vocal remover opened the door to a new era of source separation by introducing an AI based vocal remover, which outperformed every other method used before.

In 2019, we evolved in to a Stem maker, which not only separates and removes vocals from any given audio track, It also removes drums, bass and other instruments in to separate stems. Again by using the latest and greatest AI techniques.

Basically, our artificial intelligence understands music. We are not sure if it can feel it, but it clearly understands it and knows what to eliminate and what to leave.

We are also continuously pushing its capabilities up to new levels on daily basis. Therefore, it is getting better and better all of the time.


How to make karaoke online?

From now on, you no longer need to wonder about how to extract vocals from a song. You no longer need to fiddle around with Audacity or other audio editing tools trying to reach the impossible. Separating vocals from a full song was always a tricky business even by using the greatest audio editing tools. It is a tricky business not only for daily users but also for audio professionals.

Simply upload your .mp3 file and we conduct the conversion online within minutes by using our state of the art sophisticated artificial intelligence. Once the process is complete, you will be able to download a karaoke (instrumental) track for work or pleasure.

Whatever it is - pop, folk, house, electro, rap or rnb, - you name it, whatever language it is, it all works equally well.


What can I do with PhonicMind's Stem maker files?

It's totally up to you what you do with those files. Most of the time people just want to make a karaoke version of their favourite song so that they could sing or play the main melody of a song with full music background. A lot of the time, people make these conversions to sing a song in a different language. That is very entertaining!

Music professionals eliminate vocals, drums, bass or other instruments to create outstanding remixes, by re-sampling some older songs and giving them new life. That is very beautiful! If you are one of those people, please share your work with us, we would love to see what you are able to achieve with this.

You can also download .stem.mp4 file of your song. This is the file format created by Native Instruments. By using .stem.mp4 files with Native Instruments Stems products you can DJ like never before!

If you are using or are willing to use it in some other way, please share your thoughts with us, so that we could maybe make our vocal remover better suited to your needs.


What is a .stem.mp4 file?

A Stem (.stem.mp4) file is an audio file that contains a track split into four musical elements: A drums stem, a bassline stem, a harmony stem, and a vocal stem for example. The Stem file also includes the original stereo master of the track for standard playback..

Experience a new era of being a DJ by using our Stem files with Native Instruments:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/stems/


What are the requirements on file that I have to upload?

Our Stem maker accepts all major audio file formats like MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, ALAC and many others. The better quality audio file you have, the better the end result will be. We recommend using CD quality audio files for best results. Your song file should be less than 100Mb in size and shorter than 9 minutes.
Beware! You might not get the best results out of our vocal remover if you use poor quality audio files.


What is your output file format?

Our AI Stem maker engine works with CD quality audio in its brain, therefore we always provide you CD quality (44.1 kHz, 16-bit) high-resolution files as the end result.
If your original file is in a lossless file format like .wav, .aiff, .flac or .alac, we will give you back lossless .flac files in return as well.
If you upload your song in any compressed format like .mp3, .wma or something else, you will get high-res 320kbps .mp3 files back.


Do you have some examples?

Yes, we do have examples - please find them on our How it works page.


Is there a downloadable PC application that I can purchase?

No, there is no downloadable application.
All of this work is produced with a deep neural network, which is running on an expensive GPU cluster that is organized in a very specific way.
In other words - a regular PC does not have enough resource capacity to perform this, that is why there is no downloadable PC application and we do not predict that it could become available in the near future.


How many free preview files are there available per user?

We allow 20 preview files per non paid user/session


Is there a money back guarantee?

Sorry, but no. Every conversion has high computational costs associated with the job. Please review our examples and perform tests before you make any purchase to get familiar with what kind of result you might expect. Usually conversion results are the same or even better quality than provided examples.