This article will show you, how to digitalize printed Sheet Music and Music Score PDFs, so you can play them back, edit them and download them in different formats, by scanning them with Scan2Notes.
Simply follow this quick step-by-step tutorial.
Step 1: Open up Scan2Notes #
Head over to klang.io/scan2notes with either your computer or smartphone. On this website you will find a dedicated box, in which you can either input a picture of sheet music or a PDF. Click here to learn more about which kinds of sheet music Scan2Notes can scan.
Note, that when using a smartphone, you are given the option to directly take a picture with your phone.
Step 2: Enter Title and Author #
Next, enter the title and author of the music score you are scanning. Accept the terms and conditions and finally click on “START DEMO”. Scan2Notes automatically detects the notes written in the provided sheet music and creates a free demo scan.
Step 3: Playing, Editing and Downloading your Score #
You can now play back, edit and download the free demo sheet music created by Scan2Notes.
If you want to find out more about these features, check out this tutorial. To get an overview over the download channel, please refer to this article. For a full tutorial on how to edit your notes, click here.
Note that some features are only available for full scans. Find out more about upgrading to a full sheet here.
Bonus: Creating Sheet Music from Audio #
In case you don’t want to scan sheet music, but create a score entierly from an audio recording, you can try out the other Klangio apps. Simply input an audio file, use a youtube link or record your instrument directly and the AI figures out the notes automatically. Feel free to try out the free demo transcriptions for any of the apps:
- Klangio Transcription Studio: Transcribe music with multiple instruments.
- Piano2Notes: Transcribe piano music
- Guitar2Tabs: Transcribe guitar music
- Sing2Notes: Transcribe singing
- Drum2Notes: Transcribe drums
- Melody Scanner: Convert full songs into Melodies and Chords or Arrangements.
Click here to learn more about how to get started with these apps.
I hope this explains how to easily scan photos of sheet music or music score PDFs using Scan2Notes. Feel free to check out the other articles of this help center
