Guitar to bass

Drop in a guitar MIDI file and get back only its lowest notes, cleaned up for a bass track. Chords collapse to their root, strums collapse to one hit, and key switches can be cut out.

Drop a MIDI file here

or click to choose a .mid or .midi file. Nothing leaves your browser.

Key switches

Remove notes below

Anything under this note is deleted before the bass line is picked. Middle C is C4 (60).

Chords and strums

Treat notes as one chord within

Widen this if strummed chords still leave extra notes.

Ignore higher notes played over a held bass note

Cut overlaps so only one note sounds at a time

Velocity

Set every note to

Bends

Keep pitch bends on bass notes

Only bends on the note that became the bass are kept. Bends on higher notes are dropped, and the pitch resets after each bent note.

Pitch

Shift

Your file will show up here as a piano roll, with the bass line picked out.

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