Can MuseScore open an MP3 or similar format so I can see the notes?

• Jul 17, 2016 - 23:17

Since there are copyright laws for popular music, I don't expect MuseScore to open these popular songs. But I'd like to open the notes for my own original recording songs.

For example, if I recorded my own guitar riffs, exported it as an .mp3 or a similar format, then a few days later I'd forget exactly how I played the song, can I use MuseScore to find out exactly the notes that I played on that recording?

If not in .mp3 or .m4a or a similar format, how would I possibly do this for my own songs and open them in MuseScore to see the notes on the songs? It's just so much easier to record and then have its music score generated by the computer. And mostly, I'm not good at writing music unless it's drum music.


Comments

Unfortunately, technology is nowhere *near* that sophisticated. You're asking roughly the equivalent of asking Siri to transcribe all the individual conversations in a crowded room. It's just not going to happen.

You can get a tiny ways toward that if, instead of recording your music as audio, you use a MIDI device and a sequencer to "record" the performance to a standard MIDI file. You can then open the MIDI file in MuseScore. But realistically, it's not going to be nywhere clsoe to readable notation. There is no substitute for developing the skill of transcribing music yourself.

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