Browse projects/Audio and music/Convert audio to MIDI/basic-pitch

spotify/basic-pitch A tool that works on your files

Turn an instrumental recording into editable MIDI notes

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • an instrumental recording with clearly pitched notes

You get

  • a MIDI file you can open in a music editor
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

spotify/basic-pitch on GitHub

Licence. Apache-2.0

The 6 recipe files

Recipe revision 307906c4c8c0, from 9991303bba60.

Audio and music

Transcribe, separate, clean up and voice your audio.

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