Guides

Notes on what converts well, why a result comes out wrong, and which setting fixes it.

Everything here is written from behaviour measured on the converter itself, not from generalities. Where a number appears, it came from running the page against known audio.

• Guitar to MIDI: Why Chords Collapse and Single Notes Survive A single-line part converts, a six-string strum does not. What this build measured on guitar-like tones, plus where drums and guitar tab fall outside it.
• Sheet Music to MIDI: Why a PDF Becomes MusicXML First A score is a picture, so it has to be read before it can become a file. Why the recognition step should hand you MusicXML, and what MIDI leaves out.
• MIDI to Sheet Music: The Notes Are Not Guessed, the Notation Is Turning MIDI into a score changes nothing about the notes. What the file carries, what the notation program has to invent, and how far measured onsets drift.
• MIDI to MP3: Rendering, Not Transcription MIDI to MP3 means playing a file through a synthesizer and recording the output. What the file has, what it lacks, and why this is the opposite of audio to MIDI.
• MIDI TPQN: 480 Ticks per Quarter Note, and What Quantize Does Two numbers get called PPQN. What the 480 in your file means, and how far the Quantize setting moves a note.
• Converted MIDI in a DAW: Why It Doesn't Line Up, and How to Fix It The file is usually fine. What it carries, why it drifts against your recording, and the two numbers you have to match.
• WAV to MIDI: Transcription, Not a Format Conversion A WAV holds samples and a MIDI file holds instructions, so there is no container the two share. What actually happens, and which export helps.
• Song to MIDI: Why the Whole Song Is the Hardest Input A song is a full mix, and that is the hardest thing to transcribe. What comes back from a whole song, and why one stem at a time works better.
• MP3 to Sheet Music: Convert the Audio to MIDI First Two jobs, and only the first one guesses. What this page writes, what a MIDI file leaves out, and the two steps that make the score readable.
• Voice to MIDI: Convert Singing or Humming into Notes A voice is one note at a time, which is exactly what this tracker reads. Where singing breaks it, and the one setting that fixes most bad results.
• Is MP3 to MIDI Actually Possible? What Conversion Can and Can't Do It works, but it is transcription, not a format swap. That gap is why people call it a scam, and what actually converts cleanly.
• MP3 to MIDI for Piano: Why Solo Piano Converts Cleanest 7 to 8 of every 8 notes land at the right pitch, and why the note range setting matters more than anything else.
• Convert MP3 to MIDI Without Uploading Your File Where every step of the conversion actually happens, and two checks that prove nothing leaves your device.