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Topic: Load Song as Instrumental
Hey!

Is it possible to load a song as an instrumental?

Thanks!

Donny
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 2:26 pm
Yes. Set it to switch to acapella (based on stems) on load
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 4:33 pm
klausmogensen wrote :
to acapella

To instrumental, surely?
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 4:41 pm
groovindj wrote :
klausmogensen wrote :
to acapella

To instrumental, surely?

Oh, yes. Sorry :D
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 4:45 pm
klausmogensen wrote :
Yes. Set it to switch to acapella (based on stems) on load

How do I do this? Sorry I'm sure it's simple but I don't know.
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 6:05 pm
Small add to Klaus' suggestion...if you want what most people normally want (both the regular song and the instrumental), it might be better to make a track cleaner copy first, and then set the track cleaner edit to disable the vocal stems. That way you still have the original track to play as well as an instrumental as separate files when you want it.

In theory, the easiest way to get the track cleaner copy to be instrumental would be to just add a censorship = mute vocal over the entire track and then save the edit like that, but I found recently that this wasn't reliable (not entirely sure why)

The next best (but maybe hacky) alternative might be to add an Action POI at the very beginning of the track cleaner edit that disables the Vocal stem:


stem "Vocal" 0%


But this does have the problem of needing this to be undone for future track loads (especially if resetStemsOnLoad = No or Pad). Maybe the reset could be achieved with a deck local variable by modifying the action POI above to do:


stem "Vocal" 0% & set instrumental_enabled 1


And then using the ONSONGLOAD mapping of the keyboard mapper to check the variable and restore the vocal stem.


var instrumental_enabled ? stem "Vocal" 100% & set instrumental_enabled 0 : nothing
 
Posted Tue 26 Nov 24 @ 7:33 pm