Strings to MIDI

Drop a string recording to turn into MIDI, or select a file. It opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to transcribe strings to MIDI

A string player’s pitch is never fixed. Every note is found by ear, shaded with vibrato and joined to the next by a slide, and four of them playing together are four of those at once. Reading strings into notes means deciding where each wavering pitch settles, and whose it was.

  1. Add your recording: Drop a WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC or OGG: a solo instrument, a quartet, or a song with strings in it.
  2. Say what it is: One instrument, a section playing together, or a full mix. From a mix, the strings are separated from the rest first.
  3. Take the parts: A solo as one MIDI line. A section as a part per voice, on the tempo the players took, ready to edit or engrave.

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Questions about the strings to MIDI converter?

We have answers.

Can I convert a violin recording to MIDI?

Yes. A solo violin is one line, and comes back as MIDI with its timing and dynamics.

Can it transcribe a string quartet into four parts?

Yes. Say it is a section playing together and it comes back as a part per voice rather than one line of chords.

Is it free?

Yes, to start. A free account comes with 120 credits a month, with no card needed to start: transcribing one part is 2 credits, and a full mix is separated first, which is 20. Pro has 2,000 a month.

Does it handle pizzicato?

Plucked notes are short and clear, and are written as the pitches played. The MIDI does not mark which notes were plucked and which were bowed.

Can I get a score instead of MIDI?

Yes. The parts can be engraved as a score, each instrument on its own stave in its own clef.

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  • Vibrato is not a trill

    A held note on a violin moves a little above and below its pitch several times a second. Written literally that is a blur of tiny notes. The tracker used for strings is told the register it is listening in and writes the note the vibrato is centred on.

  • A quartet is four lines

    Four string players sounding a chord are four parts, and a chord detector that returns the chord has thrown the arrangement away. Transcribed as an ensemble, a string section comes back as a part per voice: who had the tune, who had the inner line, who had the bass.

  • Strings behind a band

    On a pop record the strings are under everything else. They are pulled out first with the string extractor, or instrument by instrument with the violin, viola and cello ones, and the transcription reads the isolated track rather than the mix.

Strings to MIDI, violin transcription: one job

Strings to MIDI, violin to MIDI, cello to MIDI, violin transcription and string quartet transcription all name this one job. To get the strings out of a recording as audio first, use the string section isolator.

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