Drums in.Sheet music out.
Automatic drum transcription for real songs. Playable, editable, and exportable.
It reads nearly 9 in 10 drum hits correctly, and we publish the number. See how it’s measured.
From track to chart in minutes.
No DAW, no plugins, no manual tapping.
Drop a track
Drop in an audio file: studio cut, live take, a phone recording of your own demo. Got a link? We'll try that too.
We isolate and listen
We split the drums out of the mix and run them through a model trained on real records, not loops, not MIDI.
Read, edit, play along
Get engraved, editable sheet music with a cursor locked to the audio. Fix anything, export MusicXML or MIDI.
Not a piano roll. Actual sheet music.
Press play. The cursor is pinned to the recording, exactly what you read while you play along. Every notehead is editable, and it exports clean to MusicXML or MIDI.
Everyone transcribes drums.
We tell you how well.
nearly 9 of every 10 hits transcribed correctly
Measured August 2026 on the public MDB benchmark — real songs held out of training — at or above the best published research, on the instrument every other tool is weakest at. Three independently trained models vote on every note; unanimous notes score 0.87 with a third fewer false hits. We date the number, and we keep moving it. It’s the one figure our whole product stands on, and no competitor publishes theirs.
| Capability | Paradiddle | The rest |
|---|---|---|
| Built drum-first | Yes | Drums are an afterthought |
| Publishes a drum accuracy number | Yes | None do |
| Editable notation, not a piano roll | Yes | Mixed |
| Shows you the notes worth checking | Yes | No |
| Failed runs auto-refunded | Yes | Rarely |
vs Klangio · Songscription · Moises · DrumConvert, strong on breadth, silent on drum accuracy.
We show you the notes worth a second listen.
No transcriber is perfect, anyone who says otherwise is hiding the misses. So we surface them. Paradiddle flags the handful of hits it was least sure of and tells you why. Keep it or fix it in one tap.
And where this is headed: your verdicts become the training data for the next model. The more it’s used, the better it gets.
- HHBar 4 · beat 2.5low confidence
may be cymbal bleed, not a struck note
conf 0.41 - CYBar 8 · beat 1crash vs ride
the model's weakest call, verify by ear
conf 0.58 - TTBar 16 · beat 3tom pitch
sits between toms, could be a floor tom
conf 0.61
Transcribe your first song free.
Make an account, run a song, see the chart. No card. If it’s as good as we say, it’s $9 for five more or $12/mo for as many as you want.
$9 → 5 songs · $29 → 20 · $59 → 50 · or $12/mo unlimited