Piano to MIDI transcription. Keep your expression.

Turn your piano recording into editable MIDI with Transkun V2. Capture melodies, chords and note velocities so soft passages and strong accents keep their dynamics.

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How to convert piano audio to MIDI

1. Import

Upload your piano recording or paste a link.

2. Click Run processing

Transkun turns your piano recording into MIDI.

3. Download MIDI

Save your MIDI file to use in your DAW.

Preserve velocity, not just the notes

Get piano MIDI that preserves note velocities, from soft passages to strong accents. Change the piano sound in your DAW while keeping your performance’s dynamics.

Hear audio-to-MIDI transcription in the original Transkun research demo. This page uses Transkun V2.

Capture the whole piano part

Transkun is a model for expressive piano transcription. It returns one acoustic-piano MIDI track, including simultaneous notes and pedal controls.

Melodies and chords

Transcribe both hands, chord voicings and overlapping notes. Polyphonic transcription captures several notes played at once.

Note timing and duration

Keep detected note starts and releases. Leave quantization off for expressive timing, or enable a note grid in Studio when you need tighter timing.

Pedal information

Export detected pedal controls with the notes. Use a piano instrument that responds to MIDI pedal messages to hear their effect.

Put your piano MIDI to work

Edit your performance

Move notes, correct pitches and adjust individual velocities in your DAW. Start from your recording instead of entering every note by hand.

Try another piano sound

Play your transcribed MIDI through a different virtual piano or synth. Keep the detected notes and velocities while changing the instrument.

Prepare notation

Import the downloaded MIDI into notation software such as MuseScore. Review the rhythm, hand assignment and layout before sharing a score.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use piano-to-MIDI transcription for a multi-instrument mix?

Use Transkun for solo piano. For a recording with vocals, drums, bass, guitar or other instruments playing together, choose MuScriptor. It is designed for multi-instrument music transcription and produces instrument parts rather than treating the whole song as piano.

Try MuScriptor for multi-instrument mixes with the audio-to-MIDI workflow. Import your song, split and transcribe the instrument stems, then preview and download the MIDI in Studio.

Only need the piano part from a full song? Isolate a piano stem before using piano-to-MIDI transcription with Transkun. Other instruments or separation artifacts can cause extra or missing notes.

Can I turn a piano recording into sheet music?

To turn a piano recording into sheet music, first transcribe the audio with the piano-to-MIDI tool. Upload a solo piano recording or paste a supported recording link, run Piano to MIDI with Transkun V2 in Studio, then download the MIDI file. Import that file into notation software such as MuseScore. The transcription contains detected notes, timing, velocities and pedal controls; it does not export a finished sheet music PDF. Review note errors, rhythmic notation, hand assignment and score layout in your notation editor before printing or sharing.

Why does a piano-to-MIDI transcription have extra or missing notes?

A piano-to-MIDI transcription can contain extra or missing notes when background instruments, heavy reverb, noise or a quiet piano part make pitches difficult to distinguish. Transkun is designed for piano, so use a clean solo piano recording in the piano-to-MIDI transcriber. Compare the MIDI playback with the original and correct note errors in your DAW. If the recording contains several instruments, use MuScriptor for multi-instrument transcription or isolate a piano stem before running Transkun. Stem separation can help, but remaining bleed and separation artifacts can still affect the notes.

Turn your piano recording into expressive MIDI

Import your piano audio, transcribe with Transkun V2, and download notes with their detected velocities.