Split songs from YouTube into stems.

Paste a link, pick your instruments, and play vocals, drums, bass, guitar and piano as synced tracks. Free and open source. Runs entirely on your machine.

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StemKit splitting a song into six stems

How it works

Three steps. No accounts, no uploads.

01

Paste a link, or search

YouTube search is built in. Find the song without opening a browser tab, hit split, and keep working while it runs in the background.

02

Pick your instruments

Standard four stems, or add guitar and piano. Only what you ask for gets produced, so the split finishes faster.

03

Play, mute, solo, export

All stems stay synced to the original video. Export any of them as WAV files that drop straight into your DAW.

Search

Embedded YouTube search.

Type a song, click the result, and the split starts in the background. You never open a browser tab.

  • Results appear while you type
  • One click sends it to split
  • No browser tab, ever
StemKit search screen with YouTube results

Split

Seamless stem splits by instrument.

Pick vocals, drums, bass, other, plus guitar and piano. The split runs locally with live progress, and presets isolate each instrument while the playhead keeps moving.

  • Vocals, drums, bass, other
  • Guitar and piano when you need them
  • Live progress, runs locally
StemKit splitting a song by instrument

Export

Export straight into your DAW.

Every stem exports as a standard WAV file — vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, or the full instrumental. Drop them into Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, GarageBand. No conversion, no fuss.

  • Any stem, or all of them at once
  • Standard WAV files
  • Works with any DAW
StemKit export menu

Learn your instrument

Solo the guitar, bass or piano and pick out every note by ear.

Play with a backing track

Mute your own instrument and the band plays on without you.

Remix and sample

Pull clean acapellas and drum loops for flips and mashups.

Sing / Karaoke

Strip the vocals from any song and the mic is yours.

System requirements

Before you install.

Operating systemmacOS 12 or newer (Apple Silicon), or Windows 10 / 11
First launchStemKit sets up its own engine, about 2GB, one time. Nothing to install by hand.
Disk spaceAbout 2GB, downloaded once during setup.
InternetNeeded to fetch songs from YouTube and for the one-time setup.

Free and open source. Runs entirely on your machine.

no account needed · no data sent anywhere