Hi Moonbeam.

Wow! What a terrific study. Are you a science teacher or a scientist? Your experiment is very well presented and highly methodical. I'm an ex-chemistry and physics teacher and I sincerely admire your layout and presentation smile

I'm like you. I prefer to use the 'import audio' option because I am familiar it and I know that it does what I need it to do. That's important to me.

To me, it seems that you have identified a couple of limitations of using the stem splitter. When saving to the Utility tracks, the fact that the tracks are not identified in the name is one of those limitations. For example, I'm not sure why the names on the Utility track aren't "song_name_bass #2", "song_name_drums #3", etc. The #1, #2, #3, etc are necessary because they are identifiers that load the audio file on the relevant utility track. Admittedly, it's easy enough to identify which track is which simply by playing it, but I'm surprised that the additional information in the name isn't there as a visual guide.

The second limitation that you've identified is the saving behaviour when you use Audio as the destination as opposed to Utility #1. The only thing I can think of is that the saving destination seems to be related to the original audio file. When "Audio" is chosen as the destination, the original audio stays on the Audio track (which makes sense because that is where it was imported to). On the other hand, when Utility #1 is chosen as the destination track, the program assumes that the original audio has been imported to Utility #1.

I have passed a link to your experiment on to the the developers in case the insight is useful to them smile

You've done a really great job! I'm very impressed.
--Noel

P.S. With BIAB, the program often has a number of ways to do the same thing. I have discovered that when you find a method that works for you and makes sense to you, there is no reason to change it.

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