RipX by Hit’n’Mix is an AI-powered DAW that separates any song into individual stems and then lets you edit the actual notes inside the mix — changing pitch, timing and expression as if you had the original multitrack.
RipX’s AI splits audio into six or more stems — vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and more — and represents everything as editable notes rather than a flat waveform. You can fix a bum note, slow a passage down for practice, replace or blend instruments, build mashups from multiple songs, and export MIDI. Built-in clean-up tools repair clicks and noise, chord and note recognition helps with transcription, and the PRO edition adds the Audioshop effects suite, the Harmonic Editor and RipScript automation. VST3, ARA2 and AudioSuite plug-ins connect RipX to conventional DAWs, and a companion iPhone app covers quick edits on the go.
A 21-day free trial unlocks the full PRO feature set with no card required. RipX DAW is a $99 one-time purchase and RipX DAW PRO is $198 one-time; both include 12 months of updates, after which updates are optional.
RipX is also a rarity in a subscription-heavy market: a one-time purchase that works fully offline on macOS and Windows, with no cloud upload of your audio. Musicians use its note-level engine for learning, too — isolate a guitar part, slow it down without changing pitch, loop a single bar and study exactly what was played, then export clean stems for covers, remixes and backing tracks.
Producers, remixers, DJs, sample creators and music teachers who need stems they can genuinely rework, not just mute.