Convert Guitar to MIDI

Upload your recording to the converter above, choose Guitar only or Full song, and hit Convert to MIDI. The AI transcribes the notes into a MIDI file. Preview it on the piano roll, then download the .mid. MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG and FLAC all work.

Yes. Choose Full song and the guitar is separated from the vocals, drums and bass before it's transcribed. If the song has more than one guitar, they usually come out together as one part, so the MIDI can get busy where they overlap.

No. The output is a MIDI file, not tablature. MIDI stores the pitch and timing of each note but not which string or fret it was played on. To get a tab, import the .mid into software that can turn MIDI into tablature, such as Guitar Pro or TuxGuitar, then adjust the fingering where it picks an awkward position.

One guitar played cleanly gives the best result: single-note lines, riffs and picked parts on a DI, clean amp or acoustic recording. Heavy distortion adds overtones that can show up as extra notes, several guitars stacked together are hard to tell apart, and fast strummed chords tend to blur. Drums aren't transcribed. Expect to fix some notes in your DAW; this is a fast first draft, not a perfect transcription. Recording right on this page works too: an acoustic played close to the microphone gives the cleanest notes.

Yes. Bends and vibrato are written as MIDI pitch bend, so they play back as bends rather than as a run of separate notes. If a bend sounds too wide or too narrow, check the pitch bend range on the instrument you're playing it with. You can also delete the pitch bend data in your DAW if you want straight notes.

Both. Acoustic recordings and clean or lightly driven electric tones are the easiest. For bass lines, very low notes fall below the range this page listens for, so the general MP3 to MIDI converter is the better fit.

Each conversion uses credits, and the converter shows how many before you start. A full song needs an extra separation step, so it can use more credits than a guitar-only recording. You can try it with the free credits that come with a Lacuna account. Converting and playing the result on the piano roll are covered by credits; downloading the MIDI, MP3 or WAV file needs a paid plan or a one-time export for that conversion.

Open it in any DAW, such as Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reaper or GarageBand, and put any instrument on it: a guitar plugin, a synth, strings. Because it's real MIDI you can quantize, transpose and edit individual notes, or bring it into notation and tab software to write the part out.