C++17 library that implements inference for the Demucs v4 hybrid transformer and Demucs v3 hybrid models, which are high-performance PyTorch neural networks for music source separation.

It uses only the standard library (C++17) and the header-only library Eigen as dependencies, making it suitable to compile and run on many platforms. It was designed for low-memory environments by sacrificing the speed of the Torch implementation.

See my other project umx.cpp for a similar library for Open-Unmix.

The inference library (in src/) uses the ggml file format to serialize the PyTorch weights of hdemucs_mmi, htdemucs, htdemucs_6s, and htdemucs_ft (v3, v4 4-source, v4 6-source, v4 fine-tuned) to a binary file format, and Eigen to implement the inference (with OpenMP as a requirement).

The cli programs (in cli-apps/) additionally use libnyquist to read and write audio files, and the multithreaded cli programs use C++11's std::thread.

All Hybrid-Transformer weights (4-source, 6-source, fine-tuned) are supported. See the Convert weights section below. Inference for the Demucs v3 Hybrid model weights hdemucs_mmi is also supported. Demixing quality is practically identical to PyTorch as shown in the SDR scores doc.

src contains the library for Demucs inference, and cli-apps contains four driver programs, which compile to:

1. demucs.cpp.main: run a single model (4s, 6s, or a single fine-tuned model)
2. demucs_ft.cpp.main: run all four fine-tuned models for htdemucs_ft inference, same as the BagOfModels idea of PyTorch Demucs
3. demucs_mt.cpp.main: run a single model, multi-threaded
4. demucs_ft_mt.cpp.main: run all four fine-tuned models, multi-threaded
5. demucs_v3.cpp.main: run a single model for v3 hdemucs_mmi
6. demucs_v3_mt.cpp.main: run a single model for v3 hdemucs_mmi, multi-threaded

See the PERFORMANCE doc for time measurements, benchmarks, details on multi-threading, external BLAS libraries, etc.

Clone the repo

Make sure you clone with submodules to get all vendored libraries (e.g. Eigen):

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sevagh/demucs.cpp

Install C++ dependencies, e.g. CMake, gcc, C++/g++, OpenBLAS for your OS (my instructions are for Pop!_OS 22.04):

$ sudo apt-get install gcc g++ cmake clang-tools libopenblas0-openmp libopenblas-openmp-dev

Compile with CMake:

$ mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. && make -j16

Pre-converted and ready to use ggml-weights can be downloaded at huggingface. These were created as described below.

Set up a Python env

The first step is to create a Python environment (however you like; I'm a fan of mamba) and install the requirements.txt file:

$ mamba create --name demucscpp python=3.11
$ mamba activate demucscpp
$ python -m pip install -r ./scripts/requirements.txt

Dump Demucs weights to ggml file, with flag --six-source for the 6-source variant, all of --ft-drums, --ft-vocals, --ft-bass, --ft-other for the fine-tuned models, and --v3 for the v3 model:

$ python ./scripts/convert-pth-to-ggml.py ./ggml-demucs
...
Processing variable:  crosstransformer.layers_t.4.norm2.bias  with shape:  (512,)  , dtype:  float16
Processing variable:  crosstransformer.layers_t.4.norm_out.weight  with shape:  (512,)  , dtype:  float16
Processing variable:  crosstransformer.layers_t.4.norm_out.bias  with shape:  (512,)  , dtype:  float16
Processing variable:  crosstransformer.layers_t.4.gamma_1.scale  with shape:  (512,)  , dtype:  float16
Processing variable:  crosstransformer.layers_t.4.gamma_2.scale  with shape:  (512,)  , dtype:  float16
Done. Output file:  ggml-demucs/ggml-model-htdemucs-4s-f16.bin

All supported models would look like this:

$ ls ./ggml-demucs/
total 613M
160M May  5 14:38 ggml-model-hdemucs_mmi-v3-f16.bin
 53M May  5 16:50 ggml-model-htdemucs-6s-f16.bin
 81M May  5 16:50 ggml-model-htdemucs_ft_vocals-4s-f16.bin
 81M May  5 16:50 ggml-model-htdemucs_ft_bass-4s-f16.bin
 81M May  5 16:50 ggml-model-htdemucs_ft_drums-4s-f16.bin
 81M May  5 16:50 ggml-model-htdemucs_ft_other-4s-f16.bin
 81M May  5 16:51 ggml-model-htdemucs-4s-f16.bin

Run C++ inference on your track with the built binaries:

# build is the cmake build dir from above
$ ./build/demucs.cpp.main ../ggml-demucs/ggml-model-htdemucs-4s-f16.bin /path/to/my/track.wav  ./demucs-out-cpp/
...
Loading tensor crosstransformer.layers_t.4.gamma_2.scale with shape [512, 1, 1, 1]
crosstransformer.layers_t.4.gamma_2.scale: [  512], type = float,   0.00 MB
Loaded model (533 tensors,  80.08 MB) in 0.167395 s
demucs_model_load returned true
Starting demucs inference
...
Freq: decoder 3
Time: decoder 3
Mask + istft
mix: 2, 343980
mix: 2, 343980
mix: 2, 343980
mix: 2, 343980
returned!
Writing wav file "./demucs-out-cpp/target_0_drums.wav"
Encoder Status: 0
Writing wav file "./demucs-out-cpp/target_1_bass.wav"
Encoder Status: 0
Writing wav file "./demucs-out-cpp/target_2_other.wav"
Encoder Status: 0
Writing wav file "./demucs-out-cpp/target_3_vocals.wav"
Encoder Status: 0

For the 6-source model, additional targets 4 and 5 correspond to guitar and piano.