Hello everyone.
I would like to address a question I've repeatedly seen published both in this forum and other ones as well. Given the amount of available modules which have now been integrated into UVR, obviously a lot of people are confused as which one may provide the best results. The question I see a lot, therefore, is the following:
"What is the best module which provides the best results? What setting should I use with it?" and its variations.
Before I give you the answer, let me introduce to the following website: mvsep.com -- This is a website where you can upload a song of your choice and utilize all of the Stem Separation AI modules currently available to have it processed. I encourage you to check it out, it's an amazing tool. Keep in mind that due to high traffic, it is likely you will have to wait in a queue for your songs to be processed.
The developers over at Mvsep launched a very interesting initiative months ago, called "Quality Checker". As I mentioned before, there are plenty of modules available and Mvsep thought about a method to establish which of them offers the best results. This is done by downloading a standard database and have a given module process it, then uploading the results onto their site. Check it out here: https://mvsep.com/quality_checker/
The results and corresponding metrics are published on their website. You can check them here: https://mvsep.com/quality_checker/leaderboard.php -- This is called the "Leaderboard".
So, back to the question: Which module provides the best results? Well, you guessed it... The answer is provided by the Leaderboard itself. As you can see, there is no single module which offers the best results, but rather it is recommended to use a combination of modules. UVR has a function integrated within it called "Ensemble", which does exactly that: It processes a given song by utilizing one or more modules of your choice.
Now, back to the Leaderboard. At the time I'm writing this, the following combination provides the highest results:
MDX-Net: kim vocal model fine tuned (old) + UVR-MDX-NET_Main_427 + Demucs: v4 | htdemucs_ft - Ensemble Algorithm: Avg/Avg - Shifts: 10 - Overlap: 0.25
You notice they have used three different modules here (Kim vocal, MDX Net Main 427, and the latest fine-tuned demucs v4). If you hover your mouse to the "?" in the page corresponding to the combo, it also provides you with the UVR settings which were used to create the combo.
So, there you have it. You should check the Leaderboard page often to see which combo is getting the highest score, and then simply replicate it with UVR. Keep in mind that modules are constantly modified and/or trained, so it is likely the Leaderboard will change quite often.
Furthermore, you can provide your own methodology (combo) and results by visiting the Quality Checker page like I wrote above, download the database, and apply your own chosen modules, then uploading the final results. I strongly encourage everyone to do so: the more tests, the more results.
As a final note, I want to thank @Anjok07 for his amazing job on UVR, which has now turned into a fantastic, and best tool at the world's disposal to create stems. Thanks a lot for all of your hard work!
Hello everyone.
I would like to address a question I've repeatedly seen published both in this forum and other ones as well. Given the amount of available modules which have now been integrated into UVR, obviously a lot of people are confused as which one may provide the best results. The question I see a lot, therefore, is the following:
"What is the best module which provides the best results? What setting should I use with it?" and its variations.
Before I give you the answer, let me introduce to the following website: mvsep.com -- This is a website where you can upload a song of your choice and utilize all of the Stem Separation AI modules currently available to have it processed. I encourage you to check it out, it's an amazing tool. Keep in mind that due to high traffic, it is likely you will have to wait in a queue for your songs to be processed.
The developers over at Mvsep launched a very interesting initiative months ago, called "Quality Checker". As I mentioned before, there are plenty of modules available and Mvsep thought about a method to establish which of them offers the best results. This is done by downloading a standard database and have a given module process it, then uploading the results onto their site. Check it out here: https://mvsep.com/quality_checker/
The results and corresponding metrics are published on their website. You can check them here: https://mvsep.com/quality_checker/leaderboard.php -- This is called the "Leaderboard".
So, back to the question: Which module provides the best results? Well, you guessed it... The answer is provided by the Leaderboard itself. As you can see, there is no single module which offers the best results, but rather it is recommended to use a combination of modules. UVR has a function integrated within it called "Ensemble", which does exactly that: It processes a given song by utilizing one or more modules of your choice.
Now, back to the Leaderboard. At the time I'm writing this, the following combination provides the highest results:
MDX-Net: kim vocal model fine tuned (old) + UVR-MDX-NET_Main_427 + Demucs: v4 | htdemucs_ft - Ensemble Algorithm: Avg/Avg - Shifts: 10 - Overlap: 0.25
You notice they have used three different modules here (Kim vocal, MDX Net Main 427, and the latest fine-tuned demucs v4). If you hover your mouse to the "?" in the page corresponding to the combo, it also provides you with the UVR settings which were used to create the combo.
So, there you have it. You should check the Leaderboard page often to see which combo is getting the highest score, and then simply replicate it with UVR. Keep in mind that modules are constantly modified and/or trained, so it is likely the Leaderboard will change quite often.
Furthermore, you can provide your own methodology (combo) and results by visiting the Quality Checker page like I wrote above, download the database, and apply your own chosen modules, then uploading the final results. I strongly encourage everyone to do so: the more tests, the more results.
As a final note, I want to thank @Anjok07 for his amazing job on UVR, which has now turned into a fantastic, and best tool at the world's disposal to create stems. Thanks a lot for all of your hard work!