

Make sure to compress the folder containing your stems before storing and distributing it online. Popular file storage websites include Google Drive, DropBox and OneDrive. If you’re looking to share your stems with a friend, another artist or a mastering engineer, your best option is to upload them to an online file storage service. It’s time to export your stems! Click the ‘ Start’ button at the bottom of the export window. To ensure your exported stems are high quality, select ‘512-point sinc’ from the ‘ Resampling’ drop-down box. This will tell FL Studio to export each insert in the mixer to its own wave file. In the export window, make sure you enable ‘Split Mixer Tracks’. Once you have selected a save location, hit ‘ Save’. Save your stems to a new folder by selecting ‘New Folder’ in the bottom left corner of the window. You can rename the title of your stems by typing in the box beside ‘Save As:’. Select the location on your computer where you would like to export your stems. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut on Windows or on Mac. Open the export window by first accessing the ‘File’ menu, then selecting ‘ Export’ > ‘Wave file…’. You can do this by double-clicking on the first beat of your project and dragging out the length of your track. Highlight the entire duration of your project in the playlist window. If you cannot see your project’s mixer window, press F5. You will now see each of the channels from your channel rack in the mixer window. If your mixer has already routed a number of channels, select the non-routed channels by holding down on your keyboard and left-clicking the box to the right of individual channels. Next, press on Windows or on Mac to route each of your project’s channels to the mixer. Select all channels by double-clicking the box to the right of any channel.

They give a mastering engineer complete control over all aspects of a track, resulting in a well balanced and higher-quality master. Exporting stems is an essential step when collaborating with others or having a track officially remixed.

Stems are groups of audio files that make up the individual elements of a song.
