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Notes on stem organization, mixing workflow, and what's new in StemStash.
Your stems folder keeps growing. Here's what's actually safe to delete
Exported stems and project audio pool up fast: freeze files, old export passes, comped takes, autosaves. A practical way to tell a genuine duplicate from one you still need before you archive or clean up.
Why your exported stems don't line up (and how to check before you send them)
Stems that sound perfect in your DAW but land out of sync elsewhere usually come down to plugin delay compensation, freeze behavior, or bus latency. Here's why, and a DAW-agnostic way to check before you export.
Why your DAW ignores the BPM and key you just tagged
Embedded BPM and key metadata in a WAV file often doesn't survive the trip between a tagger, a sample library, and a DAW. Here's why, and what works instead.
Session prep, before and after StemStash
What changes in a producer's workflow when StemStash organizes stems: a mix engineer's unlabeled batch, an archived project, and a handoff to a collaborator.
Introducing StemStash: automatic stem organization for producers
StemStash is live: a deterministic tool that classifies, renames, and organizes exported stems by instrument, BPM, and key, without generative AI.