StemGrab: every song, taken apart

Last updated: September 2026

Karaoke without the vocals, a clean bass track once you isolate bass from song mixes, or an acapella extractor pass for a remix: StemGrab splits a full mix into its parts. One upload returns seven downloads: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other, and a clean instrumental (everything except the vocals).

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What StemGrab does

• Six stems + instrumental: separation on a real GPU; vocals, drums and bass come out remarkably clean on modern mixes.
• Preview in the browser: every stem gets its own player, so you download only what you need (192 kbps MP3, or the whole set as a zip).
• Big-file friendly: tracks up to 15 minutes; uploads up to 2 GB, so even studio-quality WAVs fit.

Need to remove vocal from a track? The instrumental download is exactly that: everything except the vocals. It also works to remove vocals from a duet or a whole band mix. This vocal remover ai splits the track on our own GPU, and the download is ready in under a minute per song. The vocals remover output arrives as a separate stem alongside the six others. Remover vocal opens the same page too: one upload, seven stems, no sign-up.

The audio workbench around it

Splitting is the heart of StemGrab, but most jobs need one step before or after it. Those steps each have their own free tool on the site:

• Need a level fix before you split? Use the built-in editor. Audio volume too quiet or clipping? Change audio volume first, then come back here to split it.
• Karaoke maker, instrumental plus the synced lyrics, in one go.
• Chord finder, the chords of a song bar by bar, read after the vocals and drums are taken out, with transpose and capo.
• Audio cutter and audio joiner, trim a clip or glue takes together, with a waveform so you can see where the sound is. The mp3 cutter above shows the waveform while you drag the trim handles, so you can see exactly what you're keeping. Because it is an mp3 cutter online that already runs in the browser, there is nothing to install, and as an online mp3 cutter it handles any other format too, so audio cutter online mp3 is just one use of it. The joiner is an audio file joiner for takes recorded separately, glued back with the waveform visible.
• Extract audio from video, pull the audio out of a video before you split or cut it. It is a video audio extractor on one page with no separate app to install: extract music from video clips, extract sounds from video footage, or extract audio from a video you only need the soundtrack of, and the result is a plain audio file.
• Voice recorder, record straight in the browser; the recording stays on your device unless you choose the MP3 download.
• BPM finder and pitch changer, find the BPM/key of any track, or shift a song to a singable key. Drop a track in to find key and tempo from the same reading. You can also use it just to find a key before a set. As a bpm counter it reads the beat of any track you drop in, and it reads the key alongside the beat, track by track. Prefer tapping bpm by hand? The tap tempo tool turns your taps into a number, no maths required.

Against the known names: vocalremover.org is quick but caps quality and length; LALAL.AI charges per minute. StemGrab runs the same class of model on our own hardware with no per-minute fee: the limits are the queue when it is busy, 10 tracks a day and the 15-minute cap per track.

What happens to your song in StemGrab

What to expect from StemGrab

Vocals, drums and bass are the strong suits. Guitar and piano are newer, experimental stems, so expect them rougher in dense mixes. Podcasts and voice memos have no instruments to separate; the site tells you when that happens instead of handing you silent files. And the legal note: the tool is free to use, but rights to the music stay with whoever owns the recording, StemGrab's Legal Guide Stems Sampling spells out what that means for a remix or a release.

Tools that pair with StemGrab

Want the lyrics or an interview on paper instead? ScribeGrab transcribes audio and video to text and subtitles. Making a lyric video? VideoBGNinja gives you clean video cut-outs for overlays.

By Sam Ridder, I build and run ShinobiTools on my own hardware, on my own. Who I am.

Looking for something beyond splitting a song? The audio tools hub lists every audio tool page, from vocal removal to noise cleanup.