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MuScriptor is the result of a research collaboration between Mirelo and Kyutai whose purpose is to transcribe audio to MIDI/music sheet. It is provided primarily for research purposes under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence supplemented by the below specific conditions of use.
Specific conditions of use: MuScriptor and any generated content by MuScriptor are provided as is without any warranty of any kind, including but not limited to any warranty of non-infringement. Use of MuScriptor and its output must comply with all applicable laws and must not result in, involve, or facilitate any illegal or unauthorized activity. Prohibited uses include, without limitation, inputting music files and transcribing them to MIDI/music sheet without having all the necessary rights, including intellectual property rights, under applicable laws. Accordingly, users of MuScriptor undertake and warrant to have all the necessary rights, including intellectual property rights, in connection with their use of MuScriptor and its output. We disclaim all liability for any non-compliant use and users of MuScriptor shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Mirelo and Kyutai from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by Mirelo and/or Kyutai arising out of or resulting from their failure to comply with the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence and/or these specific conditions of use.

MuScriptor — large (≈1.3B)

MuScriptor is an open-weight model for general-purpose, multi-instrument automatic music transcription (AMT): it converts a music recording (any genre, multiple simultaneous instruments) into a stream of notes played. This repository hosts the large variant (≈1.3B parameters) — the flagship, best-quality checkpoint.

For a smaller footprint use muscriptor-medium (≈300M, good trade-off) or muscriptor-small (≈100M, fastest).

Developed by Mirelo x kyutai
📄 Paper: MuScriptor: An Open Model for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription — Rouard, Krause, Roebel, Simon-Gabriel, Défossez (2026).
💻 Code: https://github.com/muscriptor/muscriptor
🔊 Audio samples: https://muscriptor.github.io

Quickstart
Model description
Model variants
Intended uses & limitations
Instrument conditioning
Training
Evaluation
Citation
License

Quickstart

Install the muscriptor package (it uses huggingface_hub to fetch weights automatically):

pip install git+https://github.com/muscriptor/muscriptor.git
# TODO (PyPI release forthcoming: pip install muscriptor)

Python

from pathlib import Path
from muscriptor import TranscriptionModel

# "large" resolves to hf://MuScriptor/muscriptor-large and downloads on first use.
model = TranscriptionModel.load_model("large")

# Get a MIDI file directly:
Path("out.mid").write_bytes(model.transcribe_to_midi("audio.wav"))

# Or stream note events as they are transcribed:
for event in model.transcribe("audio.wav"):
    print(event)  # NoteStartEvent / NoteEndEvent / ProgressEvent

load_model accepts a size keyword ("small"/"medium"/"large"), a local .safetensors path, or an hf:// / https:// URL. Weights loaded by size keyword (or any hf:// URL) are cached in the standard Hugging Face cache (~/.cache/huggingface/hub, configurable via HF_HOME); weights fetched from a plain http(s):// URL are cached under ~/.cache/muscriptor/. Input audio can be WAV or any format libsndfile reads (mp3, flac, ogg, m4a, …); it is resampled to 16 kHz mono internally.

CLI

muscriptor transcribe --model large audio.wav -o out.mid

Model description

MuScriptor performs transcription by autoregressively predicting a MIDI-like token sequence given the mel-spectrogram of a short audio segment, following the sequence-to-sequence AMT paradigm (cf. MT3). It deliberately avoids complex architectural tweaks in favor of a simple, decoder-only Transformer.

Architecture: decoder-only Transformer (this variant: dim=1536, num_heads=24, num_layers=48).
Input: raw waveform (16 kHz, mono) of a 5-second segment → mel-spectrogram (STFT n_fft=2048, hop 160 → 100 Hz frame rate, 512 mel bins). The spectrogram is projected to the model dimension and used as a prefix condition.
Output tokenization: MT3-like note events; the 128 MIDI programs are mapped to 36 instrument subgroups using the MT3_FULL_PLUS taxonomy. Decoding is greedy (argmax) by default, with optional classifier-free guidance (CFG).
Inference: audio is processed in 5-second chunks; note events are emitted in temporal order. Optional instrument conditioning stabilizes predictions across chunk boundaries and lets you restrict/customize the transcription (see below).

Note on the representation: the tokenizer recovers onset/offset timing, pitch, and instrument, but not velocity. It also cannot represent two notes of the same pitch and instrument sounding at the same time. Drums are onset-only.

Model variants

Repo	Params	`dim`	heads	layers	Notes
`muscriptor-small`	≈100M	768	12	14	smallest / fastest
`muscriptor-medium`	≈300M	1024	16	24	good trade-off
`muscriptor-large`	≈1.3B	1536	24	48	this model · best quality

All variants share the same input pipeline, tokenizer, and training recipe; they differ only in latent dimension, attention heads, and depth.

Intended uses & limitations

Intended uses

General-purpose transcription of real, multi-instrument music across genres (classical → heavy metal) into MIDI.
A building block for music information retrieval (chord/key recognition), musicological analysis, generative-modeling data pipelines, and tools for musicians.

Out of scope / use with care

Not a substitute for a hand-annotated score; expect errors, especially on dense mixes, unusual timbres, and heavily processed audio.
Velocity/dynamics are not produced (see note above).
Onset/offset precision is lower for some styles (e.g. choral music), and exact offsets are inherently harder than onsets.

Limitations & biases

Training data skews toward pop and Western classical music, and the instrument distribution is long-tailed (piano/guitar/bass/drums are most frequent). Rare instruments and underrepresented genres may be transcribed less reliably.
The fixed MT3_FULL_PLUS 36-group instrument taxonomy limits instrument granularity.
Simultaneous same-pitch/same-instrument notes cannot be represented by the tokenizer.

Instrument conditioning

The model can be told which instrument groups are present in the track. Supplying the correct set improves quantitative scores and produces more coherent instrument assignments across segments.

from muscriptor.tokenizer.mt3 import MT3_FULL_PLUS_GROUP_NAMES

# `instrument_group` is a space-separated string of MT3_FULL_PLUS group IDs.
# Convert readable group names to IDs:
names = ["acoustic_piano", "acoustic_guitar", "acoustic_bass"]
instrument_group = " ".join(str(MT3_FULL_PLUS_GROUP_NAMES[n]) for n in names)  # -> "0 4 7"

# Only expect piano, acoustic guitar and bass in this track:
model.transcribe_to_midi("audio.wav", instrument_group=instrument_group)

muscriptor transcribe --model large --instruments "acoustic_piano,acoustic_guitar,acoustic_bass" audio.wav -o out.mid
muscriptor list-instruments   # show all available group names

Evaluation

Metrics are instrument-agnostic F1 scores computed with mir_eval.

Headline results on `D_Test`

D_Test is the authors' held-out test set of 372 multi-instrument tracks. Results below are for this 1.3B model with the full training pipeline (D_Synth + D_Real + D_RL), CFG = 2:

Model	Onset F1	Frame F1	Offset F1	Drums F1	Multi F1
YourMT3+ (baseline)	32.5	45.5	17.8	41.4	21.9
MuScriptor 1.3B	60.4	72.4	48.6	49.6	47.8

Model-size comparison

F1 ↑ on D_Test from the paper's scaling study (models trained on D_Real only, CFG = 2). Note these ablation numbers omit synthetic pre-training and RL, so they are lower than the full-pipeline results above:

Variant	Params	Onset	Frame	Offset	Drums	Multi
`muscriptor-small`	100M	51.2	67.2	38.7	41.5	38.2
`muscriptor-medium`	300M	52.4	68.0	40.3	42.0	39.7
`muscriptor-large`	1.3B	53.2	68.7	41.0	42.5	40.5

Citation

@inproceedings{muscriptor2026,
  title     = {MuScriptor: An Open Model for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription},
  author    = {Rouard, Simon and Krause, Michael and Roebel, Axel and
               Simon-Gabriel, Carl-Johann and D{\'e}fossez, Alexandre},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Kyutai, Mirelo AI, IRCAM}
}

License

Code released under the MIT License. Weights released under CC-BY-NC.

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MuScriptor — large (≈1.3B)

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Quickstart

Python

CLI

Model description

Model variants

Intended uses & limitations

Instrument conditioning

Evaluation

Headline results on `D_Test`

Model-size comparison

Citation

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MuScriptor — large (≈1.3B)

Table of contents

Quickstart

Python

CLI

Model description

Model variants

Intended uses & limitations

Instrument conditioning

Evaluation

Headline results on D_Test

Model-size comparison

Citation

License

Space using MuScriptor/muscriptor-large 1

Collection including MuScriptor/muscriptor-large

Headline results on `D_Test`