First off, a big thank you to @Slak_Jaw for the ongoing support (with access to software)
My focus with DJay Pro is for DJing in VR.
To that end I’m wondering if Algoriddim will be the first to implement multi channel .aac and .m4a file and music formats as a Neural Mix workaround for DJay on the MetaQuest.
Tracks can be pre-stemmed and saved as 4 channel wav or 4channel m4a.
This could be the way to get “Neural mix” on less horsepower platforms like the MetaQuest.
thoughts?
P.s. you could pre-stem offline via audacity etc…
Or enable DJPro on Mac/pc as a paid feature to save stems in 4 channel files in an export more.
Then, when the moment a 4 channel m4a (or wav, depending on CPU)is opened in lesser hardware, the neural mix faders could come into play.
The fact that stems are generated on the fly and no preparation is necessary is what sets Djay apart from other products. In this respect, what you are suggesting would, in my opinion, be a step backwards, at least from a technical point of view. But yes, as an additional option, it wouldn’t hurt.
Maybe a feature request for Neural Mix Pro rather than DJ Pro? It mostly has what you want already (ability to bulk export stems from tracks), but doesn’t have multi channel auto file as an output option.
As I mentioned, my focus is on Djay for the Meta Quest - a platform that unfortunately is limited by it’s CPU to do on-the-fly decoding / stem separation.
Good point. though I think Neuralpro is Mac only?
Still it’s a matter of ease to enlist ffmpeg to mux to multichannel wav or acc/m4a, similar to how Audacity does it.
Traktor had a kind of pre-ai-stems. You would need stem seperated m4a files, it wasn’t automatically seperated.
I have a bunch of those files, I have not tested it, but it would be nice if djay could read the same format.
The result/advantage of this would be clearer stem seperation. Seperating with AI sometimes leaves some artifacts.
Oh I didn’t know about this in Traktor. And yes, having an ability to have both pre-stemmed (especially with more sophisticated algorithms and time dedicated to stemming) and on-the-fly stemming in a DJ software, is the ultimate.
