@@RPGkanon ‘we made it’ was actually going to one of the songs on the og version of donda. so pop smoke has been on the album for over a year (before his second posthumous album). but i do agree they milked every little bit of music out of his death
You really nailed it with this video. No one else has a comprehensive explanation / history summary out there yet on the Stem Player besides you. Would love a Part 2 talking about how the version put out for sale today is a collab with an entirely different company, Kano.
Thank you dude! A Part II should be coming soon, hopefully early next week. These videos take a bit to push out but people obviously want to know about the new version
I'm convinced that's why the album was soo chopped up at yesterday's listening party. He's showing us how we will able to make changes to songs to our liking if we purchase the stem player!
For sure. I was interested in the stem player because although he's always talked about part taking in the tech industry, this is the first time we're actually seeming him active in it.
I'm actually surprised there isn't something that is mainstream like that for everyone else to use. That way you can get exactly what you want on a song so for creative common purposes you can recreate the music for RU-vid videos.
@@locotx215 I think it's more the idea you can give people who aren't musicians the ability to tinker with music. It's in a format that is easy to understand and might inspire a lot of people to actually delve deeper into music past the stem player. A 'gateway' device if you will. I think it's dope
Essentially. I think that it will have impact because it's super accessible for the general public and obviously carries weight behind producers because of the press associated with Kanye and the Yeezy name.
Yo what if each listing party is a different combination of mixes from the stem player that's why every version is so different. What if before the album drops ye will be making every version of the album he can possibly make using the stem player. This would explain why some versions of the songs have different artists replaced and the Choir harmonies removed. Ye just loaded new vocal stems for the different artists and used the stem player too remove the choir. So my theory is we'll get one more listening part to drive home the visual narrative that ye wants to portray and then once Donda releases we'll get heavy Stem player promotion by revealing that all the listening parties Auditorial experience was made from the device. This is Ye's way of showcasing that you can have a different experience from the same album live if you use different mixing but now made easier by using his new user friendly Stem player.
@@botez5671 possibly, but that all metal design with physical controls would have been 10x better... I can only assume cost. Teenage engineering stuff is expensive because they don't cut corners.
1:42 - That’s cool, I guess. We’ve been watching that for years with bands like Orbital, Pretty Lights, Air, Russ Liquid, Giuseppe Ottaviani, and many others.
the flaw I see is that it's hard for an artist to create a definitive mix if they know that the listener will be able to create their own. Kanyes music has drums coming in and out frequently so for the stem version would you be able to keep the drums in the whole time? would he have to compose drums for sections that he doesn't feel should have them? this concept can be applied to any element of the music and at that point it becomes confusing from an artists standpoint. I guess you could compose music with this device in mind but I don't think it would work effectively with any existing music.
Yeah that’s an interesting point. Instruments dropping in and out in a final mix might be baked in to their tracks, or might just be controlled with automation in the session, not sure how hip hop producers generally do it. Most things in music with more acoustic instruments are recorded where you need them, so when they leave a track it’s because there was nothing recorded there, and continuing that part might require writing new sections just to give users of the stems more options (if it’s artists releasing the actual stems and not some software separating them), but I wonder if anyone would actually do that. I guess the looping features could help with that.. guess it just comes down to whether there is an actual demand for this (which will determine whether it actually ever comes out) and then just seeing how different people use it. 4-tracks, mixers, samplers, etc, have all existed forever but this does seem to fit a slightly different niche so maybe it’ll inspire different uses.
I love Kanye but several rock bands did this years ago. I want to say Arcade Fire had this and when HTML5 made it doable. They even had an interactive music video that superimposed images onto the street you grew up on using Google Earth to trigger memories. Someone help me out if the band is wrong
Does anyone know why Kanye switched manufacturers last minute for the Stem Player? It was being developed by Teenage Engineering for the longest time, but the final product delivered is from Kano Computers and has a completely different design.
So there are definitely apps to do this without needing to buy a $200 piece of physical hardware. That being said.... if Supreme can sell literal bricks, why can't Yeezy sell this?
Yeah I think Kano's product design IS better, but I think that Teenage Engineering would have likely been a better company at product execution, fulfillment, and developing the accompanying software.
Yeah I used to not credit my sources unless they were extremely important in the video, but I think it gives credibility to my video and can direct people toward smaller artists/pages.
Karaoke has been around for at least 50 years what do you mean you’re just getting used to it? Not sure how karaoke is relevant to a stem player anyway.
99% of people are music illiterate, meaning they don't have the musical dexterity to actually make something sound good.. This is essentially a stripped down dj controller, with very limited options. People interested in this are better off buying a dj equipment or software. Even a simple phone app is more powerful than this
Interested to see if this will natively parse out stems or if you'll need to do it urself first... Orrrr if you'll need to buy special versions of songs. The latter would suck 0
With it being released on Wednesday, one of the information sections on the sale website said that artists and producers could submit songs for them to be fitted to the stem player.
