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Machine Learning in Linux: Demucs – music source separation

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 20, 2023

This series looks at highly promising machine learning and deep learning software for Linux.

Demucs is billed as “a state-of-the-art music source separation model, currently capable of separating drums, bass, and vocals from the rest of the accompaniment”. It’s based on a U-Net convolutional architecture inspired by Wave-U-Net. Version 4 features Hybrid Transformer Demucs, a hybrid spectrogram/waveform separation model using Transformers. It sounds impressive, but what are the results like?

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