https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/recipe-make-stems-for-a-remix-contest https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/recipe-make-stems-for-a-remix-contest A step-by-step way to hand over stems that open cleanly in anyone's DAW: one start point, one length, one sample rate, tails kept, clear names. Each step has a time and a cost, and the export settings come from the Ableton Live 12 and Logic Pro manuals. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT We are the music makers format-recipestemsremixingableton-livelogic-pro https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/what-are-stems https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/what-are-stems A stem is a group of audio sources mixed down together and then handled as one unit, such as all the drums or all the vocals. Multitracks are the individual tracks before that grouping. Here is the difference, and when to send which. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT We are the music makers format-referencestemsmixingmasteringremixing https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/stem-mastering-explained https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/stem-mastering-explained Stem mastering means sending a mastering engineer a handful of submixes instead of one stereo file, so they can fix balance problems the mix left behind. This guide explains how it differs from stereo mastering, when it actually helps, how to print stems that sum back to your mix, and why we think it is usually a sign the mix is not finished. Sources checked on 25 Oct 2026. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers mixingmasteringstemsworkflows https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/collaborate-remotely-on-tracks https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/collaborate-remotely-on-tracks Making a track with someone in another city works best when four things are settled early: how files move, what format the session travels in, how stems are exported, and who owns what. Here is a practical order of operations, with the DAW and legal details checked against primary sources. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers collaborationworkflowsstemssplitscopyright https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/fix-generated-stems-in-your-daw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/fix-generated-stems-in-your-daw Stems from a song generator often drift against the grid, carry a noise floor and fight each other in phase once you lay them out in a DAW. This guide gives the order to fix them in: lock the tempo at the source if you can, warp what is left, take noise out gently, and check polarity and mono before you mix. Every tool setting is taken from the vendor manuals, read on 24 Oct 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicstemsmixingworkflowsdaw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/hybrid-ai-idea-daw-record-workflow https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/hybrid-ai-idea-daw-record-workflow Song generators are good at the first ten minutes of a track and bad at the last ten hours. This guide sets out a hybrid workflow: sketch with AI, move the parts into your DAW as MIDI and stems, then replace, perform and mix the record yourself, keeping a log of which parts a human made. Tool details are from vendor help pages read on 24 Oct 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicworkflowsdawmidistems https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/prep-stems-for-ai-mixing-mastering https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/prep-stems-for-ai-mixing-mastering Automated mixing and mastering services only hear what you upload. This guide pulls together what two of them, RoEx Automix and LANDR, actually ask for in their own help pages: lossless WAV, every stem starting at 0:00, honest labels, no limiter on the bus and real headroom. Then a pre-upload checklist and why we think the prep matters more than the service you pick. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers mixingmasteringstemsworkflowsai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/prompts-for-editable-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/prompts-for-editable-music Most prompt advice aims at a finished-sounding song. If you plan to finish the track yourself, you want the opposite: sparse, steady, isolated material at a known tempo. This guide turns the vendors' own prompt guidance from Suno and Stability AI into prompts for parts you can edit, with what each instruction is for. Read on 24 Oct 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicpromptingworkflowsstemsdaw