How-to guide
Drum separation in Logic Pro vs DrumSplit
Logic Pro 11 includes a Stem Splitter that separates vocals, drums, bass and other. But the drums come as a single combined stem — kick, snare, hats, everything together. DrumSplit goes further and gives you each kit piece individually.
Logic Pro's Stem Splitter is convenient because it is built into the DAW. But if you need the kick separate from the snare — for sampling, layering, re-drumming or analysis — you need DrumSplit's 5-stem separation.
Step-by-step
- Logic Pro's approach. Import audio, right-click, choose Stem Splitter. You get 4 stems: vocals, drums, bass, other. The drum stem has everything combined.
- DrumSplit's approach. Upload the same audio to DrumSplit.io. You get 6 stems: kick, snare, hi-hats, toms, cymbals and a drumless music track.
- For combined drums. Logic Pro is fine if you just want drums separated from the rest of the mix as a single track.
- For individual kit pieces. DrumSplit is the only option. No DAW — Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools — separates individual drum elements.
- Best workflow. Use DrumSplit for the separation, then import the stems into Logic Pro for editing, mixing and processing.
Tips for better results
- You can use Logic's Stem Splitter to get the combined drum stem, then run that through DrumSplit's Direct mode for even cleaner kit-piece separation.
- DrumSplit's drumless track is often cleaner than Logic's 'Other' stem because DrumSplit identifies each drum piece individually.
- Credits work across VocalSplit and DrumSplit — one purchase for both vocal and drum separation.
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