Model packs
Some of Stab’s listening tools hear a recording through a model: a trained network that runs on this device, with nothing sent anywhere. Models are large, so most are downloaded once, when you first need one, from the Sound Library and kept on this device.
Model packs
Available on Mac and Windows. Not on Web.
This isn’t on Web.
The web doesn’t run models, and has no Sound Library: the tools that need one (Write Tab from Audio, Find the Chords, Separate into Stems) are in Stab on a Mac, a PC, an iPad, an iPhone or Android.
The models
| Model | What it does | Used by |
|---|---|---|
| Tab from Audio | Hears the notes in a recording. | Write Tab from Audio, Find the Chords |
| Stems | Separates a recording into drums, bass, vocals and the rest. | Separate into Stems, Play Along Without…, Write Tab from Audio, from the Mix |
| Beats | Finds beats and bars more surely than Stab’s own tracker. | Find the Beats, when it’s installed |
Tab from Audio is small (well under a megabyte) and comes with the app on most devices. Beats and Stems are downloads of tens of megabytes (here, about 75 and 100 MB) (here, about 19 and 38 MB); Stems also needs a good deal of memory while it works.
Find the Beats works without a model: Beats only makes it more accurate. The other tools need theirs.
Getting a model
When a tool needs a model that isn’t on this device, the recording lane’s menu offers it in the tool’s place: Write Tab from Audio: Get Its Model…, Separate into Stems: Get Its Model…, or, in Find the Beats, More Accurate: Get Beat This!….
You can also get one ahead of time: open the Sound Library with Sound Library (⌃⌘L)Sound LibrarySound Library (not on Web), choose Analysis, and select Download beside it. Each model’s card says what it’s for, and credits who made it and its licence.
If the Sound Library can’t be reached (offline, say), Windows says so and opens the folder where a model’s file can be put by hand: a model placed there is used at once.
Updating and removing
A model with a newer version shows Update. Remove deletes it from this device and frees its space; the tools that need it offer to get it again. A model is kept per device: installing it on one doesn’t install it on another.