Transcribe Music
Get notes, chords, BPM and key from any song — YouTube link, audio file, or microphone recording.
Choose your source
Preview and pick a range
Your transcriptions
Song to Tabs & Sheet
Everything you need to turn audio into editable, publishable notation
Notes, Chords & Key
Hear a song and get its notes, chords, tempo and key laid out for you — start from a YouTube link, an audio file, or a quick microphone recording.
Spectrogram Editor
Watch the notes appear on a scrolling spectrogram of your clip. Drag a note to fix its pitch or timing, add any that were missed, and every change saves as you go.
One-Click Tabs
Turn your result into a fully editable score in Tab Maker — the melody as guitar tab and the chords on a piano staff — ready to play, print, or share.
How to Use the Music Transcriber
From audio to editable notation in four steps. Best with clean recordings — every clip can be polished by hand.
How to Use
- Pick a source
Paste a YouTube link, upload an .mp3 or .wav, or record straight from your microphone.
- Choose a range
Drag the start and end handles or type the seconds. Shorter clips finish faster.
- Watch it transcribe
The notes fill in on the spectrogram as your clip is analysed.
- Edit & export
Fine-tune any note's pitch or timing, then turn it into an editable Tab Maker score.
What you get
- Notes & timing
Every note detected and laid out on a timeline you can edit
- Chords, key & tempo
The song's chords, musical key and tempo, worked out for you
- An editable spectrogram
Correct any pitch or timing, and add notes that were missed
- A Tab Maker score
One click turns it into guitar tab plus piano chords
Frequently Asked Questions
What it can transcribe, how accurate it really is, and what you can do with the result.
- What does the Acousterr Music Transcriber do?
- It listens to a piece of audio and works out the notes, chords, musical key and tempo, then lays them on an editable spectrogram. From there one click turns the result into a real score in Tab Maker — the melody as guitar tablature and the chords on a piano staff.
- What can I transcribe from?
- A YouTube link, an .mp3 or .wav you upload, or a recording made straight from your microphone. Whichever you choose, you pick the start and end of the clip before it is analysed.
- Is it free, and how long a clip can I transcribe?
- Transcribing is free with a free account, up to a 30-second clip; a premium membership raises that to 120 seconds. Shorter clips also finish faster, so a single riff or chorus comes back sooner than a full section.
- How accurate is automatic transcription?
- Good enough to start from, not good enough to trust unread — expect to correct it. A clean solo instrument transcribes far better than a dense mix, and quiet, distorted or heavily overlapping parts are where it struggles. That is exactly why the result is editable rather than final: drag a note to fix its pitch or timing, and add anything that was missed.
- Can I fix the notes it gets wrong?
- Yes — the spectrogram is an editor, not a report. Every detected note can be dragged to a different pitch or moved in time, missed notes can be added, and each change saves as you make it. The corrected version is what gets exported.
- What can I do with the result?
- Turn it into a Tab Maker score in one click, then play it back at any tempo, edit it like anything else you have written, and print, export or share it. It becomes an ordinary score at that point, with none of the transcription left attached to it.