The fastest way to turn any song into sheet music.

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Features ♫ Why? ♫ Quick Start ♫ Technologies Used ♫ Feedback and issues

Features

This is Songscribe! A web application for musicians to jumpstart the process of transcribing music. Within minutes, you'll have the perfect starting point for a complete transcription of a song.

• Upload a song with an audio file or YouTube URL
• Machine-learning powered instrument splitter / vocal remover
  • Choose between 4 presets: Solo, Duet, Small Band, and Full Band
• Convert audio to MIDI for automatic transcription
• Customize the MIDI transcription with many parameters
• Integrated audio and MIDI playback and visualization
• Generate sheet music for final score with playback
• Export isolated stems and MIDI files
• Print or export sheet music as PDF

Why?

As a musician, I've always loved being able to hear something interesting in a song, transcribe it, and understand what it is so that I can use it in my own playing or compositions. Cracking that elusive code behind what makes something sound good is always so satisfying.

Well… minus the part where I loop 2 seconds of the YouTube recording at 0.5x speed for an hour to figure out what one chord is.

That's why I made Songscribe, a tool for jumpstarting the transcription process. By utilizing machine-learning algorithms to isolate each instrument and convert it to MIDI, you will have an incredible starting point for transcribing every part of a song in minutes. Not hours—minutes.

Quick Start

You can get started transcribing with Songscribe by visiting songscribe.xyz.

Here's a quick overview of how to use Songscribe:

• Upload the song you want to transcribe
  • File Upload
  • YouTube Link
• Choose the preset that best suits the song you're transcribing
  • Solo- (1 instrument)
  • Duet- (vocals, no vocals)
  • Small Band- (vocals, drums, bass, and other instruments)
  • Full Band- (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other instruments)
• Optionally, select the tempo and the start time and end time of the song to be transcribed
• Click the Transcribe button
• Adjust the MIDI parameters to regenerate the transcription for each instrument to your liking
• Click the Export button to create the final score and download all files generated from the session

Technologies Used

Here is a quick breakdown of all the main technologies used to create Songscribe.

Frontend:

• React
• Next.js
• TailwindCSS
• shadcn/ui
• Libraries:
  • Tone.js- MIDI playblack and visualization
  • wavesurfer.js- Waveform Visualization
  • Flat Embed- Embedded sheet music viewer

Backend:

• Python
• Libraries:
  • Moseca- Instrument separation
  • Basic Pitch- Audio to MIDI conversion
  • ADTOF- Drum transcription

Feedback and issues

Please file feedback and issues over on Github Issues. All feedback is welcome!