NI Stems Support

Registered by Owen Williams

A new audio format supporting 4 stereo tracks.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Owen Williams
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
None
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Some free stems to download: http://assets-cdn.native-instruments.com/public_downloads/free_stems_for_traktor_pro_2.zip

Stems SDK free downloads (registration required):
http://www.stems-music.com/stems-is-for-developers/

NOTE -- we need to read the SDK license extremely carefully and probably get a lawyer's advice as to whether it is GPL-compatible.

UPDATE: The SDK license is finally available and it's not good news:
http://www.stems-music.com/sdkagreement/

Maybe reverse engineering or clean room design could be an option? Again a lawyer's advice would be a good idea.

(?)

Work Items

Work items:
some sort of V1 bare-minimum support -- maybe giving the user the option to load all four in one deck (full mix) or arbitrary combinations of the stems: TODO
shared beatgrid for the four tracks: TODO
some sort of group-specific master sync: TODO
skins and controller support: TODO

Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.

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