Drums to MIDI, hit by hit.
Pull the drums out of a song, or upload a drum track on its own. Get the kick, snare, hats, toms and cymbals as MIDI, ready for your own kit.
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Free drums to MIDI converter · From a song or a drum track
1What’s in your track?
2Add your track
DrumsBassPianoGuitarOtherVocals
Free · Drums to MIDI
Drums to MIDI, hit by hit.
Kick, snare, hats and cymbals as MIDI. Free.
1What’s in your track?
2Add your track
How it works
How to convert drums to MIDI, in three steps.
1
Where are the drums?
In a finished song, choose Full mix and the kit is lifted out first. A drum track on its own: One instrument, then Drums.
2
Add your track
A programmed loop or a live kit both work. Dry drums, with little room sound, give the cleanest hits.
3
Download drums.mid
Every hit on its own General MIDI note, so it plays any drum kit in your DAW straight away.
What you get
What you download.
- kick · snare
- On notes 36 and 38, with how hard each hit was played.
- hi-hats
- Closed and open hats on their own notes, kept as played or filled to a steady pattern.
- toms
- Sorted by pitch into up to four drums, floor tom to high tom.
- ride · crash
- Ride, ride bell and crash, each on a note of its own.
- drum score
- The groove on a percussion staff: kick in the bottom space, snare on the third, cymbals as x noteheads.
Why Midium
Why use Midium.
Not just kick, snare and hat
Many converters squash every hit into three sounds. Midium keeps toms, ride and crash apart.
Learned from real drummers
The drum model behind it learned from over 400 hours of human drumming, so fills and ghost notes come out as they were played.
Your choice of cymbals
Choose how cymbals and hi-hats are written, so the groove fits the way you program drums.
FAQ
Drums to MIDI questions.
Can I convert drums from a full song?
Yes. Choose Full mix: the drums are split out of the song first, then converted to MIDI.
Which drum notes does it use?
General MIDI: kick 36, snare 38, closed hat 42, open hat 46, crash 49, ride 51, ride bell 53, and toms from 41 to 50. Any GM drum kit plays them.
Does it keep the dynamics?
Yes. Each hit has its own velocity, so ghost notes stay quieter than accents.
Does drums.mid start on the real bar 1?
Yes. Where the snare’s backbeat falls shows where each bar begins, so the file starts on the song’s first downbeat, not on its first sound.
Will it convert a short drum loop?
Yes. Choose One instrument and Drums; a loop of a few bars is done in about 30 seconds.
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