Voice to sheet music: sing it, hum it or upload a voice memo

Voices slide into notes, add vibrato and drift a little sharp or flat. Written down exactly, that becomes a staff full of tiny notes and accidentals. What you want on paper is the melody as it was meant: one note per syllable, in the key you were singing in, with rhythms a singer can read. That is what the transcription aims for, and why a slightly wobbly memo still comes out clean.

Humming to sheet music works as well as singing to sheet music, and whistling is often the cleanest of all because its pitch is so pure. Singing on a clear syllable such as "da" helps notes start crisply. To hum to sheet music, open quick mode and record; for a longer memo, upload the file.

For a song with a band behind the voice, the audio to sheet music converter separates the singer first and writes out the other parts too.

Upload a whole song and the vocal is separated from the band, written on its own staff, and topped with the chord symbols of the song: a lead sheet, ready for a singer, a pianist or a jazz combo to play from.

A recording of just your voice has no chords in it, so the melody comes back on its own. Add chords in your notation app, or record yourself with a guitar or piano and upload that.

A high voice is written in the treble clef, a low male voice in the treble clef with a small 8 below (the way tenor parts are printed) or in the bass clef, depending on where the melody sits. If you want to play the tune on a B flat, E flat or F instrument, such as a trumpet, saxophone or horn, set the part to that instrument and the key and notes are written at the pitch you read.

The melody is written without the lyrics. Words under the notes are on the roadmap; until then, the MusicXML file makes them quick to add in MuseScore, Sibelius or Dorico.