YuE2 listens to your recording and writes it out as a sheet music image plus an ABC score file you can download.
Built on YuE2-3B, the open music model from M·A·P.
Upload an audio file to convert it into sheet music. The YuE2 audio to sheet music converter works through the whole mix, writes out what it hears, and hands back notation you can keep.
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MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and other common audio formats
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Converting a recorded performance into written notation — the pitches, rhythms, and chords that were actually played.
Audio to sheet music is the process of converting a recorded performance into written musical notation, so that a sound file becomes a readable score showing pitch, rhythm, and harmony.
Upload a song, a rehearsal recording, or a voice memo. What comes back is notation — the same thing a person would write down if they sat with the track and a pencil.
That is exactly how it used to work. To transcribe music by ear, you play four bars, pause, write, rewind, and do it again for an hour or more. An audio to sheet music converter does that listening pass for you. Music transcription AI separates pitch from noise, groups notes into bars, and lays the result on a staff, so the road from music to sheet music that used to take an afternoon now takes one upload.
Two things are worth knowing before you start. First, an audio to sheet music transcription is a reading of a performance, not a copy of the original score — swing, rubato, and ornaments all have to be interpreted into notation. Second, clean recordings read better than crowded ones, which is true of every tool in this category, including ours.
What the converter reads, what it gives back, and what you can do with the file afterwards.
Most people come to an audio to sheet music transcriber with one track and one question: can I read this. These are the parts of the workflow that decide the answer.
The YuE2 audio to sheet music converter works on multi-instrument audio. You do not have to strip a track down to a solo piano line before uploading. Bear in mind what that costs: a dense arrangement is harder to notate cleanly than a single instrument played on its own, so a sparse recording will always give you a tidier score.
Every conversion returns a rendered score image. You can look at it, judge whether the transcription caught what you meant, and decide whether the take is worth working on — before you open any notation software.
Alongside the image you get the score as an ABC notation file. ABC is plain text. Its headers hold key, meter, and tempo; note symbols carry pitch and duration; chord names sit in quotes above the line. Because it is text, you can open it in any editor, change one chord, and see exactly what changed.
YuE2 writes an ABC score of melody and chords before it renders any audio — that step is called symbolic planning. Transcription and generation therefore speak the same language: audio to score and score to audio are two directions through one file format, and a score that came out of a recording is the same kind of object as a score the model wrote itself.
A readable score for a song with no published sheet music, a record of something you improvised, or the starting point for an arrangement.
The output is always the same pair — an image and an ABC file. What changes is what you do with them.
Plenty of recordings were never written down. Run the audio to sheet music converter over one and you get a staff to read from instead of a track to guess at. An audio to sheet music piano part and a horn line come back on the same score.
You improvised something good and it is sitting in a voice memo. Convert it, and the take stops being a recording you might lose and becomes notation you can revisit.
An audio to score pass gives you the first draft of an arrangement. Open the ABC file, change the chords under the melody, and you have a version of your own.
Teachers hand out the thing the student actually needs to read this week, rather than the nearest published edition.
Players learning by ear, songwriters keeping their own ideas, teachers preparing material, and arrangers starting from a recording.
Four groups keep showing up in the forum threads Google ranks for audio to sheet music. Each one wants something slightly different out of the same file.
You have the recording and no score. Rather than looping four bars until the notes resolve, run the audio to sheet music converter first and read from the result while you check it against the track.
The best version of an idea is often the first one, captured badly on a phone. An audio to sheet music pass turns that fragile recording into notation, which is a far more durable way to hold onto a song.
Students bring in recordings, not editions. An audio to sheet music run on the specific track a student wants to play gives you something to mark up in the lesson, which beats handing out the nearest published arrangement in the wrong key.
When the job is to rework an existing piece, the first task is finding out what is in it. An audio to sheet music pass gives you the harmonic outline on paper, and the ABC file gives you somewhere to start rewriting.
A text score you can actually edit, a converter that sits next to a generator, and no monthly bill.
Three reasons to pick this one, each with the trade-off attached.
Every audio to sheet music run hands back ABC, which holds key, meter, tempo, pitches, durations, and chord names as readable characters. Change one symbol and render again. A PDF is a picture of a score; an ABC file is the score. The trade-off is real and stated above: if your workflow ends in Sibelius or Finale, our format does not reach it yet.
YuE2 already writes an ABC score before generating audio. A score that came out of your recording is the same kind of file the model composes with, so the output of an audio to sheet music run is not a dead end.
Packs start at $9.90 for 99 credits and run to $49.90 for 700, with 5 credits free to begin. Nothing recurs. If you need four audio to sheet music runs this month and none next month, you pay once.
Four steps, and the only thing you need is a file.
From opening the page to holding a score file: four steps, and most of the wait is the conversion itself. If you are working out how to convert audio to sheet music for free, this is the same path — the 5 free credits cover your first runs.
Quality in decides quality out. A close, dry recording reads better than a phone clip from the back of a room, and a sparse arrangement reads better than a dense one. If you have two takes of the same thing, upload the clearer one first.
Drop the audio into the converter. Common audio formats are supported.
The audio to sheet music converter reads the whole mix and returns a rendered score image. Look at it before anything else. Check the bar lines against the pulse you hear and check that the melody sits where you expect it. This is the fastest way to tell whether the take was clean enough.
Take the ABC file away with you. It is plain text, so any editor will open it. Fix a chord name, correct a duration, and you have the version you actually wanted.
When an audio to sheet music run finishes you have two things: a score image to read from, and an ABC file that holds the same music as editable text.
One-time credit packs, five free credits to start, and no monthly subscription.
YuE2 runs on credits you buy once. There is no recurring plan and no card needed to try it.
$9.9
One-time · 99 credits
$0.10 / credit
$29.9
One-time · 370 credits
$0.08 / credit (approx.)
$49.9
One-time · 700 credits
$0.07 / credit (approx.)
If you are looking for an audio to sheet music converter free to try before paying, the Free plan is the place to start: 5 credits, nothing recurring. For reference, generating a song in the studio costs 3 credits for Text to Music and 4 for Music to Music.
Each audio to sheet music conversion costs 2 credits. The free plan can download both the sheet music image and the ABC file.
The questions people actually search before uploading a file.
Short answers first, detail after.
Yes. AI music transcription works, and audio to sheet music AI is now the normal way this job gets done. A model listens to the recording, identifies pitches and their durations, groups them into bars, and lays the result on a staff. The result is a reading of a performance rather than a reproduction of an original score, so expect to correct a few things: swing feel, ornaments, and ambiguous rhythms are where tools disagree with each other and with you. Clean, sparse recordings come back closest to what you hear. Dense band mixes are the hard case for every audio to sheet music converter in this category, ours included. Treat the output as a strong first draft that saves you the slow listening pass, not as a finished edition.
Two files: a rendered sheet music image and an ABC notation file. The image is for reading and for judging the audio to sheet music result at a glance. The ABC file is the working copy — it is plain text, so any editor opens it, and the notation is human-readable rather than a binary blob. ABC headers carry key, meter, and tempo; note symbols carry pitch and duration; chord names sit in quotes. For MIDI, use our Audio to MIDI converter at /audio-to-midi. We do not currently export PDF, MusicXML, or Guitar Pro, so if you came here for MP3 to sheet music PDF output, this is not the tool yet. If one of those formats is a hard requirement for your workflow, check it before you buy credits.
You start with 5 free credits, so you can convert audio to sheet music online free for your first runs, and there is no subscription — credit packs are bought once and do not recur. Each audio to sheet music conversion costs 2 credits, and the free plan can download both the sheet music image and ABC file. Most people searching for audio to sheet music free online are weighing a trial tier against open-source software, so here is the straight comparison: MuseScore is free and open-source, and it is by far the most searched term alongside this one, but it is notation software rather than a converter — it will not turn an MP3 into notes for you.
Yes, it reads multi-instrument audio and you do not need to isolate a part before uploading. Expect the result to track the amount of information in the recording, though. An audio to sheet music piano transcription from a solo take comes back cleaner than a five-piece mix with cymbals and a distorted guitar, because more simultaneous sound means more decisions the model has to make about what belongs on the staff. If you have a stem or a sparser take of the same material, start there and compare.
Yes — MP3 is the common case, and converting MP3 to sheet music follows the same path as any other upload: choose the file, run the conversion, read the image, download the ABC. Common audio formats are supported. One practical note: an MP3 encoded at a low bitrate loses high-frequency detail, which makes cymbals and bright attacks harder to place. If you have the WAV, use the WAV.
No. Uploading a file is the way in — link import from YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram is not supported, so YouTube to sheet music in one step is not something this converter does. If your source only exists as a video, you will need to extract the audio yourself first, or use a tool that takes links directly. Songscription and Klangio both do, and we would rather tell you that than waste your time. This is a genuine gap in what we offer today, not a design preference.
We have not published accuracy figures, and we are not going to quote a number we cannot back. What we can tell you is how to judge it in about thirty seconds: run one conversion, open the score image, and check three things against the recording — do the bar lines land on the pulse, does the melody sit where you expect, and are the chord names plausible. That tells you more about your material than any headline percentage would, because accuracy on this task depends heavily on how the source was recorded.
That is the intended path. YuE2 writes an ABC score of melody and chords before it renders audio, so the file that comes out of an audio to sheet music run is the same kind of object the model composes with. Edit the harmony in the ABC file and you have an arrangement of your own rather than a copy. Separately, the studio on this site generates songs from lyrics, a style prompt, or reference audio. One caution worth stating: if you transcribe someone else's recording, sorting out the rights to whatever you build from it is your responsibility.
Five free credits to start. No subscription, no card.
Pick your cleanest recording and see what the score looks like. One audio to sheet music run tells you more than any description on this page.
You keep both files — the score image and the ABC.
