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adefossez/demucs A tool that works on your files

Split a song into vocals, drums, bass and the remaining instruments

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • an audio file with music or singing

You get

  • vocals
  • drums
  • bass
  • the remaining instruments
What can it reach?
  • The internet. Downloads the 84 MB pretrained model from the author on first use. The container that reads the song has no network.
How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

adefossez/demucs on GitHub

Licence. MIT (code); the upstream maintainer does not specify clear redistribution rights for HTDemucs.

The 7 recipe files

Recipe revision 6a3558111990, from 829d21890023.

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