This audio to MIDI converter turns a supported recording into editable note data. Download the .mid sketch, change its sound, and clean up anything the source confused.
Start with a clear melody or focused instrument for the best result. If you use a dense mix, expect that some notes may need cleaning up after export.
The shortest route from audio to editable MIDI is source selection, a rough note hypothesis, and an intentional cleanup listen.
Solo the cleanest musical phrase you can find before converting. A focused vocal, bass, piano, or guitar line gives the note detector a clearer hypothesis than a finished master full of competing attacks.
Start one 10-credit conversion from a supported upload, eligible My Songs track, or direct public HTTPS file. Treat the processing result as an estimate of pitch and timing, not a transcription you must defend.
Download the .mid file from the MIDI area, assign it an instrument, and listen against the source. Remove false notes, restore missing events, and change only the phrase you want to explore next.
You receive a standard .mid file rather than another audio bounce. Drop it into a DAW and see which notes, rhythms, or voicings are worth reshaping.
source-track.mid
melody-first-pass.mid · editable note sketch
A note sketch you can open and keep changing in MIDI-friendly music software.
The source you bring and the MIDI it makes stay private to your account.
Free tries last seven days; conversions made with an active subscription stay permanently.
An MP3 is easy to grab for a quick experiment. Try a clear bass line, sung phrase, or instrumental hook and open the returned .mid file with a completely different sound. Because compression blurs some attacks and a busy master contains competing notes, expect to move or delete events after the first listen. The result is a sketch you can reshape, not a frozen copy of the waveform.
Try the WAV when you have it. Its uncompressed signal preserves attacks and quiet details that an MP3 may soften, which can make a focused part easier to read. It still cannot magically separate a crowded arrangement. Use WAV for a careful studio or rehearsal experiment, MP3 for a lighter upload, and expect both .mid drafts to need a listening pass.
Writing every note by ear gives you deliberate choices about rhythm, voicing, and articulation, but it can turn one dense phrase into dozens of stop-and-replay decisions. Keep that route for work where exact notation is the point or the arrangement contains overlaps an automated first pass cannot untangle.
A converter gives you something editable before you know every answer. Import the file, choose a new instrument, and try moving octaves, snapping a loose rhythm, or building harmony around the detected pattern. Listen back against the source and repair anything strange. Automation opens the experiment quickly; your ears decide which events belong.
The less crowded the recording, the easier the note path is to hear. A whole finished mix can still spark an idea, but it usually arrives with more cleanup.
A lone vocal, bass phrase, piano idea, or isolated instrument gives the converter one clear line to follow instead of a crowd of competing notes.
Drums, chords, room sound, effects, and several instruments at once may turn into extra notes or gaps. Use a busy conversion as a sketch you expect to edit.
Open the .mid file in your DAW and try moving notes, fixing lengths, shifting octaves, changing velocity, or giving the phrase an entirely different sound.
A free conversion stays available for seven days. Make it while a paid subscription is active and the MIDI has no scheduled expiration under the same rule as your other saved work.
The seven-day Free countdown starts as soon as conversion begins.
MIDI made while a subscription is active remains stored permanently.
Storage time and downloads are different: the owner may download an available MIDI on any plan.
Use the converter when the fun starts after the sound becomes notes: swapping instruments, studying a phrase, testing harmony, or rebuilding an authorized sample. Choose a stem tool if you still need audio, or generation if you want a new finished performance.
Try a clear hook as MIDI, assign a completely different instrument, and move a few notes. The point is to explore the performance as material, not preserve its original timbre.
Convert an authorized isolated phrase when chopping the audio is getting in the way. Audition new synths or bass sounds from the note pattern and rebuild the rhythm around it.
Turn a focused rehearsal line into MIDI, slow it down in your editor, and inspect the pitch movement. Use the transcription as a practice aid that still needs your ears.
Try a clean piano, guitar, bass, or vocal idea as a movable sketch. Shift notes and test harmonies in the DAW instead of treating the first transcription as final truth.
Start with one exposed melody, bass phrase, piano line, guitar figure, or isolated vocal. Overlapping chords, drums, reverb, and multiple instruments can create missing or extra note events. A dense master is still usable as a sketch, but expect more cleanup in the DAW.
The converter estimates pitch and timing events, then writes them as a standard .mid file. MIDI contains note instructions rather than recorded sound, so import it into compatible music software, choose an instrument, and listen back while correcting rhythm, length, octave, or velocity.
Upload MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, or FLAC audio up to 100MB, select an eligible track from My Songs, or provide a direct public HTTPS audio URL. Use only sources you are allowed to process.
A public link must point directly to the audio over HTTPS and its server must report file size. Private-network addresses, embedded credentials, and custom ports are rejected. TryRap copies an accepted remote file into private storage before beginning the conversion.
One conversion costs 10 credits. Free accounts receive three shared daily generations and may start up to three conversions per minute. A verified failure restores the reserved generation, and the owner can download a completed MIDI result while it remains stored.
A Free conversion remains for seven days. A result begun while paid subscription access is active inherits permanent storage from that creation-time plan state. Download availability and retention are separate: the owner may download an available MIDI result on any plan.
