Audio to sheet music

Drop a recording to turn into sheet music, or select a file — it opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to turn a recording into sheet music

Three steps in the browser, nothing to install — here is how the audio to sheet music converter works:

  1. Add your recording: Drop a WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC or OGG — a solo take or a full band.
  2. The notes are written down: Pitches and onsets are detected, then given rhythmic values against the detected tempo and bar lines — with clefs, a key signature and written transposition.
  3. Read and edit the score: Each part on its own stave in a bracketed system. Fix a note where you see it and the score re-engraves from that edit.

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Questions about the audio to sheet music converter?

We have answers.

What is automatic music transcription?

Automatic music transcription (AMT) is turning recorded audio back into symbolic music — notes, rhythms, bars and chords — rather than into text. An AI transcription model detects the pitches and onsets, and the notation layer decides how to write them: rhythmic values, bar lines, clefs and key signature.

Will AI transcription produce publication-ready engraving?

It produces a readable score — correct notes, rhythms against a real tempo map, per-part clefs, a key signature and written transposition. Final editorial engraving (spacing, cue sizing, page turns, articulation polish) still belongs in a dedicated notation editor, and the export is designed to hand off cleanly to one.

Does it transcribe multiple instruments at once?

Yes. The mix is separated first and each part is transcribed on its own, then engraved as its own stave in a bracketed system with the bar lines aligned — a score you read down, not one collapsed line.

Does it handle transposing instruments like B flat trumpet?

Yes. Notes and key signature are transposed together, so a concert E flat major part is written in F major for the trumpet player, and a concert-pitch toggle puts every part back at sounding pitch.

What about chord symbols?

Chords are detected as part of the same pass, including over a moving tempo, and come through as a chord track alongside the notes.

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  • Notes are the easy half

    Pitch detection is a solved-enough problem for most material. What separates a usable transcription from a pile of note events is metrical interpretation: is that a dotted eighth or a triplet, does the phrase start on the beat or before it, and where exactly is bar one.

  • Rubato is not an error

    The tempo map here is allowed to move, so an expressive performance is transcribed against the tempo it was actually played at rather than being forced onto a click.

  • A score, not a stack of staves

    Transcribe a band and you get a real system: every part bracketed together, bar lines connected, and bar three of the bass sitting directly under bar three of the horns. A part that stops early keeps counting rests, the way it would on paper, instead of leaving the system ragged.

  • Key signatures, not a wall of accidentals

    The key is detected from the pitch content, put in the key signature, and only the notes that depart from it are marked — with accidentals persisting across the bar, as notation actually works. The spelling follows the key too: the same black key is written D flat in A flat major and C sharp in D major.

  • Transposing instruments are written correctly

    Transcription hears concert pitch. A trumpet player does not read concert pitch. A B flat trumpet part is read a major second above what it sounds, an E flat alto sax a major sixth, an F horn a fifth — and the key signature moves with the notes, so a concert E flat major chart is written in F major on the trumpet stave.

  • Where it goes next

    The result is note data with a tempo map and chord symbols, which is what a notation program or a DAW both want. Export to a Logic or Ableton session keeps the tempo map intact, so the notes stay where the performance put them.

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