WAV to MIDI Converter

If you recorded it yourself, upload the WAV rather than an MP3 export. Uncompressed audio gives the transcriber a cleaner spectrum, and you can hear the difference in the note count.

Lossless in, cleaner notes outMIDI + MusicXML + previewGhost-note filteringFree 5/day

Why WAV beats MP3 for transcription

MP3 encoding throws away what a listener is unlikely to notice — and some of what it throws away is exactly what a transcription model looks at. Lossy compression smears note onsets, and above roughly 16 kHz it removes content entirely, which blurs the attack transients that tell the model where one note ends and the next begins. Quiet notes under a loud chord are the first casualties.

A WAV keeps all of it. Feed the transcriber the original take from your DAW, field recorder or phone rather than a bounced MP3, and onsets land more precisely. The engine is the same one behind our MP3 to MIDI converter — tuned onset and frame thresholds, plus a harmonic-ghost filter that removes the phantom octave notes raw models invent under sustained chords.

Recording so it transcribes well

The model hears what your microphone heard. A few things help more than any setting on our end:

Want a readable score rather than a MIDI file? Audio to sheet music renders the same transcription as notation.

Frequently asked questions

Is WAV really more accurate than MP3?
Meaningfully so on quiet passages and fast onsets, because lossy encoding smears attack transients and discards high-frequency content. On a loud solo piano recording the difference is small; on a delicate fingerpicked guitar take it is noticeable.
What about FLAC, OGG and M4A?
All supported and handled identically. FLAC is lossless like WAV and just as good an input; OGG and M4A are lossy, so the same caveats as MP3 apply. Files up to 8 minutes.
How accurate is the transcription?
Our tuned engine scores 0.97 F1 on melodies and 0.91 on polyphonic chords in closed-loop benchmarks — including a harmonic-ghost filter that removes the phantom octave notes plaguing raw AI transcription. Clean solo-instrument recordings transcribe best; dense full-band mixes are genuinely hard for any tool, so expect a starting point to edit rather than a perfect score.
Is it free?
Converting and previewing are free — 5 jobs a day, files up to 40 MB, no account. You can play the result in the browser, follow the highlighted score, and solo each part. Downloads are per piece: $2.99 for MusicXML + MIDI, or $5.99 for the full Rehearsal Pack with per-part practice MP3s and slow mixes. One-time payments — no subscription. Doing several pieces? Credit packs save you more: $9 unlocks 4 pieces, $19 unlocks 10.
What happens to my files?
Uploads are used only to run your job and stored briefly so you can download results. We don't share them or train on them. See our privacy policy.

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