Explore Songscription's guides to music transcription, sheet music, MIDI, piano roll, and AI-powered music learning, plus product updates and company announcements from the Songscription team.
MIDI is one of the most useful things in music software and one of the most misunderstood. The short version: it is not audio, it is a set of instructions for which notes to play and how. Here is what that means and why it matters for transcription.
Every transcription gives you a PDF, a MIDI file, and a MusicXML file, and picking the wrong one wastes time. The short version: print from PDF, produce from MIDI, edit notation in MusicXML. Here is the full breakdown, with a 30-second decision guide.
Sometimes the sound in your head is already in a record you love. Audio-to-MIDI lets you pull the notes out of that record and play them back through your own instruments. Here's how producers use it to rebuild a part, swap the sound, and make it theirs.
Ableton Live is built for working with MIDI and audio, not for working out what's in a recording. Songscription fills that gap. Here's how to turn a track into MIDI or notation and drop it cleanly into a Live set.
GarageBand is where a lot of musicians start, and it plays nicely with MIDI once you know the steps. Songscription turns any recording into MIDI you can drop into a project. Here's how to connect the two.
Most composers live in two worlds: a DAW for sound and a notation editor for the page. Moving ideas between them is where time disappears. Here's how AI transcription bridges audio, MIDI, and notation so the work flows in one direction.
MusicXML and MIDI look like two names for the same file until you open one in the wrong program. One describes a written score, the other describes a performance. Knowing which is which saves you a lot of cleanup. Here's the difference, plainly.
Songscription turns a recording into MIDI, MusicXML, or PDF, so the audio you want to work with lands in Logic Pro or FL Studio as editable notes. Here's which export to choose and how to get a clean result before it reaches your DAW.
Converting your own recordings to MIDI opens up everything that comes after: editing, arranging, generating notation, dropping the part into a DAW session. Here's the workflow that works for piano-focused MIDI.
Converting an audio file to MIDI is one of those tasks that used to be tedious and is now mostly a matter of picking the right tool for the source. Here's how the process actually works in 2026.
MIDI files carry exact note information, but turning them into readable sheet music involves real choices: quantization, hand splits, key signatures. Here's how to make those choices well.
Producers don't usually need pristine engraved scores. They need MIDI they can drop into a session and chord charts they can hand to a session player. Here's the producer-focused subset of AI music tools that actually fit that workflow.
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