Selling Sheet Music 65. Klang.io CEO Sebastian Murgul on the Role of A.I. in Sheet Music
Sep 23, 2025
Sebastian Murgul, co-founder and CEO of Klang.io, discusses the exciting world of AI in music transcription. He explains how their tools, like Transcription Studio and Piano2Notes, convert audio into readable sheet music. The conversation touches on challenges in preserving musicians' expressive details and the balance of copyright concerns with innovation. Murgul shares his vision of digital, interactive sheet music and the potential impact of AI on musicians’ careers, emphasizing adaptation and collaboration over competition.
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AI-Based Music Transcription Pipeline
- Klang.io uses AI to perform automatic music transcription from audio to readable notation.
- The process combines rhythmic, note-tracking, and harmonic analysis to output sheet music.
Spectrograms Are The AI's Input
- Klang.io converts audio into spectrograms so AI can analyze time and frequency information.
- The AI then performs beat/grid detection, note tracking, and harmonic analysis before creating notation.
Notation Is Harder Than Raw Note Detection
- Many systems stop at audio-to-MIDI and skip the hard step of producing readable notation.
- Sebastian says modeling musical intent and performance choices is the most difficult part of making playable sheet music.