PDF to MIDI: sheet music as a file your software can play.
Upload the PDF and download a .mid file. LalaScript reads the page with optical music recognition, a deterministic music engine checks that every bar adds up, and the MIDI carries the notes, their lengths and the tempo into your DAW, your practice app or your tab maker.
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This is what your PDF becomes before it becomes MIDI.
Real notation, read from the page, that you can hear and change before you export. Cleanest results come from PDFs exported by notation software, one page of music per PDF page, upright. Scanned or photographed pages are less reliable.
From PDF to MIDI in three steps.
Upload the PDF
A PDF exported from MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale or Dorico reads best. Scans work too, less reliably, and the result says which bars to check.
Shape it, if you want
Keep just the melody, remove a staff, limit the chords to two notes, transpose to the key your instrument has. One sentence each, and you hear the result at once.
Download the .mid
One click gives you the MIDI file. MusicXML, MuseScore, a fresh PDF and an MP3 are in the same menu.
Why convert here instead of playing it in by hand.
Bars that add up
The engine checks every bar before export, so the MIDI plays in time instead of drifting the way a raw PDF import does.
Change it in a sentence
Transpose it, thin it, drop the left hand: type it in plain English and export the changed piece.
Hear it first
Play the score in the browser before you download, so you know the read is right.
PDF to MIDI, answered.
What does the MIDI file contain?
The notes, their lengths and the tempo of the piece, as a Standard MIDI File (.mid), one track per part. Transposing instruments come out at concert pitch, and repeats and first and second endings are played out in order, so the file plays the way the page reads.
Which programs open it?
Any DAW (Logic, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, GarageBand, Reaper), notation programs, piano practice apps that take MIDI, and tab makers for instruments like kalimba that import a MIDI file.
Can I change the piece before I download the MIDI?
Yes. Type the change in plain English in the browser: remove the bottom staff, keep at most two notes at a time, transpose it to C, make the left hand easier. Then download the MIDI of the changed piece.
Does it work on scanned PDFs or phone photos?
It works best on PDFs exported from notation software such as MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale or Dorico, one page of music per PDF page, upright. Scanned or photographed pages convert less reliably, and LalaScript says which bars to check instead of hiding it.
Is the PDF to MIDI converter free?
LalaScript is free to start, with no card needed, so you can convert your first PDFs to MIDI without paying.
Can I get MusicXML or an MP3 as well?
Yes. The same piece downloads as MusicXML, a MuseScore file, a fresh PDF, an MP3 or a MIDI file; pick the one your program wants.
Your PDF, as a MIDI file.
The studio is free to start. Bring a PDF and play it in your software today.
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