How to Export Stems from FL Studio for AI-Assisted Mixing

FL Studio exports stems through its mixer, not through the playlist track list directly — which means the quality of your stem export depends entirely on how your instruments and audio are routed to mixer channels before you export.

Route to mixer channels before anything else

Open the Mixer (F9) and confirm every instrument or audio track that should end up as its own stem has its own mixer channel — or is deliberately routed to a shared channel with other elements you want combined into one stem (a drum bus, for instance). FL Studio's stems come from mixer tracks, so this routing step is the actual decision point, not something to fix after export.

Exporting with Split Mixer Tracks

1. Press Ctrl+R (Windows) or Cmd+R (Mac) to open the export dialog.
2. Check Split mixer tracks. FL Studio will render one file per mixer channel instead of one combined file.
3. Decide on insert effects: exporting with insert effects enabled prints whatever processing is on each mixer channel into that stem; exporting without them gives you dry stems with more room to rework each one later. If you're not certain a mixing tool downstream needs raw material, dry stems are the safer default.
4. Click Start. FL Studio writes one file per mixer track into the same export folder, each one prefixed with the mixer track's name and number — so naming your mixer channels clearly beforehand saves you from guessing what "Insert 7" was later.

Recommended export settings

Use 24-bit and 48 kHz as a baseline for anything heading into further mixing — lower bit depth throws away resolution a mixing tool could otherwise use, and mismatched sample rates across stems are a common cause of subtle timing drift once they're imported elsewhere.

Bringing FL Studio stems into MixingMusic

Once you have a named, full-length file per mixer channel, MixingMusic's stem mixer accepts up to 12 stems, suggests a genre preset to start from, and gives you EQ, compression and reverb per stem before a mastering pass. This is a file-based workflow — you export from FL Studio and upload the result, with no plugin or account link between the two products.

If your FL Studio project is already balanced and you just need the final polish, exporting the master bounce and sending it directly to mastering skips the stem step.