your notebook

the notebook you write music in.

seamless writing, real instruments on playback, clean exports. the whole editor works on its own and the assistant lives inside it for when you want it.

editor first

a notebook,
not a gimmick.

the writing, the playback, the exports is the whole editor, and none of it needs the assistant.

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write however you think

put notes down fast, your way

type them, click them onto the staff, or play them in over MIDI.
notes are placed where you mean them, and notei learns how you place notes and keeps your staff clean.

keyboard, mouse, or a MIDI keyboard.

not sure what notes to place? ask your assistant
hum → notation

hum a phrase and see it as notes

stop writing by hand. sing or hum into your mic and notei transcribes pitch and rhythm onto the staff.

works best on one clear voice. a full band recording needs cleanup after transcription.

don't know how to improve it? ask your assistant →
press play

hear it back, for real

every note plays on a real sampled instrument.
hear lyrics being sung instead of just the notes. hit play and it sounds just like the room.

write. hear. fix. repeat.
clean exports

hand off your score to anyone, anywhere

musicxml, midi, pdf, or wav.
export and it's out, formatted the way band and orchestra folders expect.

share your creations with us on the marketplace!

bring anything

start from where your idea lives

import audio, MIDI, MusicXML, or a rough PDF, and notei turns it into an editable score.

edit your ideas seamlessly. we'll meet you there.

messy import? ask your assistant to tidy it →
the notation engine

everything you expect in a notation program

the editing surface notei is built on.

multi-instrument scoreswrite for a soloist or a full ensemble in one file, with parts that stay in sync.
playback with real instrument soundshear trumpet, piano, strings, and more. import your own sound packs if you want.
dynamicscrescendos, diminuendos, and the usual dynamics markings, placed and rendered on playback.
the tricky stuffirregular groupings, tuplets, and odd meters render correctly on playback, not just on paper. all standard notation is there.
lyrics and chord symbolsattach lyrics under the staff and chord symbols above it for lead sheets and vocal parts. hear the words, not just the notes.
exports that hold upMusicXML, MIDI, PDF, and WAV, each one formatted for the program you're handing it to.
and your assistant

stuck? there's an assistant with you.

everything above is the notebook.
when you don't know the next chord or want a harmony under your line, notei has an assistant built into the same window.

ask notei anything

because notei is in your own notes,
the answers fit your actual music.

meet notei
questions

notei's answers

yes. hum or sing a line into notei and it writes it onto the staff as real notes, with pitches and rhythms you can then edit like anything else you typed in. it's built for the tune you can hear in your head but can't write down yet.

three ways: type them with the computer keyboard, click them onto the staff with a mouse, or play them in from a MIDI keyboard. notei places notes where you mean them and keeps the staff readable as you go, so you're not stopping to fix spacing.

yes. notei imports MIDI, MusicXML, audio, and even a rough PDF scan of a score, and turns it into a real editable score rather than a flat image sitting behind glass. audio-to-score transcription is on the full score tier.

yes, export it as MusicXML. MusicXML is the standard interchange format for notation, so musescore, sibelius, finale and dorico all open it. that means notei slots in next to whatever your school or ensemble already runs instead of locking your work in.

yes, and it's free on every tier. playback uses sampled real instruments rather than generic beeps, so a horn part sounds like a horn and you can actually judge whether a piece works before you hand it in.

yes. the editor is multi-instrument on every tier including Free, so you can write and hear all the parts of a band, orchestra or small group in one score. batch export of the individual parts is on the full score tier.