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How do you remove the bass track

Let me sum up my personal thoughts about those instrument-extracting apps.
They are the best for the vocalists and drummers - as A-.
Next, it’s for the bass players - as B- - .
In third places we have the apps' application for Guitar Players - as C +.
And in a remote place - on the losing side - , with F + + we have some help for piano/keyboard players - almost non-existing.

It means, I highly recommend the bass players to use FREE web-sites like mazmazika or a free Splitter app to obtain an extracted bass-line.
For those bass players who want to play along with a REAL recorded track - superb singers, drummers, guitar/keyboard/etc. players minus the bass-line, I recommend spending either $15 for 90 minutes or $30 for 300 minutes on Lalal.ai.
 
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I just found all this stuff! It is amazing!

BTW, Demucs has just been updated with a new model.
GitHub - facebookresearch/demucs: Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation

If you just want to try it on the web, see AudioStrip - The Best Online Vocal Isolator for Free

If you do the full install, this command example will give you a bass isolated track and the bass-less main track in mp3 format using the new model. Also, installing CUDA (pytorch-cuda) will give you about a 10x processing speedup if your GPU supports it.

demucs "08 Show Me.mp3" --mp3 -n htdemucs_ft --jobs 8 -v --two-stems bass
 
Is there a program that can turn an isolated bass track into a score or tab? (Yes, I know I should transcribe it by ear!).

How about turning a tab into a score?
Use something like MVSEP - Musik- & Stimmentrennung to split the files. Import the bass track into the DAW. Use Melodyne to detect the notes from audio. Quantize them and then export the midi.
Import the Midi into Musescore and enable tabs for bass.

Success?? I haven't tried out how well it works on bass notes, but for singing parts it works remarkably well.