How-to guide
How to separate drums using Direct mode
Direct mode skips the music-vs-drums separation step and goes straight to splitting an already-isolated drum track into kick, snare, hi-hats, toms and cymbals. Use it when your input is a drum bus bounce, a loop pack, or a stem from another separator.
Because Direct mode does not have to deal with vocals, bass and guitars, it produces the cleanest kit-piece separation possible. Feed it a clean drum stem and you get the most precise individual hits.
Step-by-step
- Prepare your drum-only source. A drum bus bounce from your DAW, a drum loop from a sample pack, or a combined drum stem from another separator (Demucs, Logic Pro, Ableton).
- Upload to DrumSplit.io. Drop the drum-only file onto the upload area. Any format up to 100 MB.
- Select Direct mode. This tells DrumSplit the input is already drums-only — skip the music separation and go straight to kit-piece splitting.
- Pay and wait 2-3 minutes. $0.99 per split.
- Download 5 kit-piece stems. Kick, snare, hi-hats, toms and cymbals. No drumless track (since the input was drums-only).
Tips for better results
- Pipeline approach: run a song through Demucs or Logic Pro first (combined drum stem), then through DrumSplit Direct mode for individual pieces.
- For sample pack loops, Direct mode turns a stereo drum loop into 5 individual one-shot sources.
- Direct mode produces the cleanest results of all three modes because the input is already isolated.
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