audioshake-stem-separation
AudioShake stem separation
AudioShake is a hosted audio source-separation service: it takes one mixed recording and returns isolated component tracks ("stems"). It does not generate, synthesize, mix, or master audio — it decomposes an existing mix. This skill covers driving its developer API, choosing the right separation targets for a production job, judging and repairing the resulting stems, the rights questions that separation raises, and when to reach for a local open model instead.
All API facts below were verified against developer.audioshake.ai on 2026-07-10. Endpoints, model names, credit rates, and limits are volatile — re-check the live models / billing / rate-limits reference pages and the OpenAPI spec (https://developer.audioshake.ai/api-reference/openapi.json) before relying on a specific number in production.
When this skill applies
Use it when the job is to pull apart a recording:
- Music stems — isolate vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, keys, strings, or winds for remixing, karaoke, sampling, sync, immersive/Atmos re-authoring, or practice/minus-one tracks.
- Dialogue / Music / Effects (DME) — split a film, TV, or podcast mix into clean dialogue, a music+effects bed, or an effects-only bed for localization, foreign-language dubbing, M&E (music-and-effects) deliverables, or archival restoration where the original stems are lost.
- Multi-speaker — separate an interview, panel, meeting, or overlapping-dialogue recording into one stem per speaker.
- Lyric transcription / alignment — line-level lyric transcripts or word-level karaoke timing.
- Content analysis / cleanup — detect or identify music inside long-form content (rights clearance), or denoise/dereverb speech.
Do not use it to write, generate, or synthesize audio, to compose music, to mix or master, or to add effects. Those are generative or engineering tasks, not separation. If the user already has clean stems and wants them combined or processed, that is out of scope.