While it’s easy to learn to use - unlike Cubase or other full DAWs, which, yes, I did study in college - and even a pleasure to do so once you get used to its weird, sex toy skin (why does the thing need to feel like it belongs in the naughty drawer?), its limits are readily apparent after the novelty wears off. In the hours spent tooling around with it, I found myself both impressed by the innovation, and unimpressed by the execution. Unfortunately, at $200, that toy is egregiously overpriced for what it does offer. "Hurricane" on the StemPlayer 😳 /woTiPUZQCd It’s an amusing toy that could conceivably offer hours of distraction and potentially even some truly creative remixes of existing songs or the creation of entirely new ones. This gives a lot of options for the novice producer to experiment with the tunes they upload to the device, which automatically culls and separates the stems to the appropriate control via artificial intelligence. It allows users to drop the vocal track to highlight the instrumental, turn tracks drumless, and even play parts of songs in reverse using the track skip buttons on the side. When it’s activated, each of the four touch grooves lights up with an appealing array of colors, and when users slide their fingers or thumbs across them, the response is instantaneous.
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The appeal of the device is in its simplicity one need not have studied Cubase in college or tooled around with Pro Tools for 10,000 hours to feel relatively comfortable “remixing” music loaded into the device, with playback provided by a small speaker on the side or headphones that can be plugged in next to it. These grooves are touch-sensitive controls allowing the user to adjust the volume of four audio tracks - or stems - parsing out roughly to bass, drums, synth, and vocals. The stem player does so much more than that - although, in the grand scheme of things, for what it does do at its price, you’d be better off with the phone and a mobile digital audio workstation.ĭeveloped by Kano, a tech company specializing in gadgets like headphones and computer mice, the stem player is a palm-sized puck with only a handful of buttons ringing its exterior and four crisscrossed grooves atop its gently curved surface. It’s been compared a bunch to HitClips, those weird little memory card things Tiger Electronics put out in the early 2000s that played a minute-long clip of top 40 hits, but that’d be like comparing Zack Morris’ Motorola DynaTAC 8000x to an iPhone 13. Smooth, round, and weighing only a couple of ounces, it reminds me of countless other fidget toys that sparked monoculture crazes in my lifetime. There is more info on all this here, if you have more money than you know what to do with.For all the hand-wringing and hype it’s generated over the past month, Kanye West’s stem player is a relatively unassuming-looking device.
Existing owners of the digital music player can also start remixing that track straight away – although they will have to sign up to a $20 a month subscription service first. A cream version is cheaper at $240, but only comes with five tracks.īoth are also loaded with videos (which you can’t watch on the player, it having no screen) and provide access to “meet ups and concerts”.Ī track from the album, ‘6 Minutes’, is available to listen to via the Stem Player website in exchange for an email address.
However, you should note that the full ten track album will only be available with purchases of the black ‘premium’ edition, which costs $360. Ghostface Killah-branded Stem Players are available for pre-order now. Perhaps not long enough to justify the device’s price tag though. Something we’d all enjoy doing, I’m sure. The gimmick with the Stem Player, you may remember, is that you can remix the different stems of each track. It comes as the company behind the device – Kano Computing – attempts to distance itself from Kanye West, who became very associated with the player via his ‘Donda’ releases, of course. Ghostface Killah has announced that he will release a new album on the Stem Player later this month. Artist News Digital Releases Ghostface Killah to release album via Stem Player By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 10 January 2023
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