Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: An Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI

The research organization Kyutai has released MuScriptor, an open-weight transformer model designed to convert multi-instrument audio recordings into MIDI files. By training on a large dataset of both real and synthetic audio, the model enables the automatic transcription of complex musical arrangements. This release provides developers and musicians with a specialized tool for converting polyphonic audio into editable digital notation.