How do I convert audio to MIDI?
How do I convert audio to MIDI? Record or import the audio in Veena, hand the clip to CoProducer and ask for editable MIDI. Veena is an AI DAW with a personal music producer built in: CoProducer reads the pitches in your recording, places the notes on a new MIDI track in the piano roll and mutes the original, so a hummed melody becomes a cello line, a keyboard sketch becomes a pad, and a tapped rhythm becomes drum notes. It is free and runs in your browser.
Veena is an AI DAW with a personal music producer built in. Describe the song you want and CoProducer builds it with you — beats, chords, melody, arrangement and mix — as real tracks you can edit, mix and export. Free, in your browser.
Convert audio to MIDI in Veena, step by step
- Open Veena. Go to daw.veena.studio, sign in with Google and open a project.
- Record or import the audio. Press Record and hum, sing or play, or press Upload for a recording of your own. A clear single part converts most cleanly.
- Give the clip to CoProducer. On a laptop, drag the clip into the CoProducer panel; otherwise name its track and bars in your message.
- Ask for editable MIDI. For example, "transcribe this melody to MIDI and play it on Strings" or "turn my tapped rhythm into editable drum notes".
- Check the new MIDI part. CoProducer places the notes on a new track and mutes the original. Play them against the recording.
- Edit the notes. Open the piano roll for melodies or the Beat Maker for drums. Move a pitch, shorten a note, set velocities, then quantize if the groove needs tightening.
- Choose the sound. In the clip's Instrument panel, move the part to piano, strings or a synth without converting again.
- Export the MIDI. Download MIDI file saves one clip; Export with MIDI writes every MIDI track of the project into one .mid file.
Notes or a new sound: two different jobs
Ask for MIDI when you want the notes to edit, re-voice or send to another DAW. Ask for another instrument's sound on the recording when you want audio, such as "make my humming a saxophone": CoProducer re-voices the take in the song's key. Both start from the same recording, so try one, undo, and try the other.
What's free
- Audio to MIDI: transcription by CoProducer, from your daily allowance of requests.
- The studio: piano roll, Beat Maker, 61 instrument presets, 8 drum kits, recording and stem separation, with up to 5 projects at a time.
- Export: MIDI, WAV 24-bit/48 kHz, MP3 320 kbps and stems, with no cap and no watermark.
Veena Pro, $20 a month, removes the daily request cap and unlocks the premium models.
Veena compared with BandLab and Ableton Live for audio to MIDI
| As of October 2026 | Veena | BandLab | Ableton Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audio to MIDI | Free | Pro plan, $14.99 a month | Standard, $349, and Suite |
| Where it runs | Any browser, every computer | Browser and apps | Windows and Mac install |
| A producer that builds the song around the notes | CoProducer | SongStarter ideas you don't own | MIDI Generators, not in Intro |
BandLab's pricing table marks Audio-to-MIDI "No" on its free plan. Ableton Live's $99 Intro edition leaves Audio to MIDI out. Logic Pro runs only on a Mac with Apple silicon, from $199.99. In Veena the conversion, the piano roll and the producer who writes the rest of the song around your melody are all free.
What the term means is in audio to MIDI. This page answers the how-to; the feature itself is audio to MIDI in Veena, the note tools are in MIDI editing in the piano roll, and turning a voice into an instrument sound is voice to instrument. Every other answer is in the Veena help centre.
Related reading: Audio to MIDI · Audio to MIDI in Veena · Voice to instrument
Try this in Veena
Transcribe my hummed melody to editable MIDI in the song's key, play it on Strings, and write a Round Bass line and Upright Piano chords underneath it at 84 BPM.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert audio to MIDI?
In Veena, record or import the audio, drag the clip into the CoProducer panel and ask for editable MIDI: "transcribe this melody to MIDI". CoProducer detects the pitches, places the notes on a new MIDI track and mutes the original. Veena is an AI DAW with a personal music producer built in, and the conversion is free in your browser.
Can I convert my humming or singing to MIDI?
Yes. Hum or sing into your microphone in Veena, then ask CoProducer to transcribe the take to MIDI. The notes land in the piano roll, ready to play on piano, strings, a synth or any of Veena's 61 instrument presets. Ask for another instrument's sound on the recording instead when you want audio rather than notes.
Is there a free audio to MIDI converter?
Veena converts audio to MIDI free, on every plan, in the browser. BandLab marks Audio-to-MIDI "No" on its free plan, and Ableton Live leaves it out of the $99 Intro edition (as of October 2026). In Veena the MIDI exports as a .mid file with no cap, from one clip or the whole project.
What audio converts to MIDI best?
A clear single part: one voice, one melody line, one instrument phrase, or a tapped rhythm for drum notes. Record it dry, without backing music, or separate a mix into stems in Veena first. After conversion, fix any note by hand in the piano roll before you quantize, so the performance keeps its feel.
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