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Play It. Transcribe It. Share It.

BranchBeat listens as you play and converts your music — from jazz piano to Iranian dastgah — into real-time sheet music. Then share it, discover other musicians, and connect with a global music community.

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See It In Action

From sound to sheet music, while you play

BranchBeat listens while you play and lays the notes down as you go — a score to work from in seconds instead of an evening of transcribing by hand. You correct what it mishears, right on the score.

BranchBeat Compose screen with notation, recording controls and audio waveform

What BranchBeat Does

A studio, a notation engine, and social media for all musicians

Notation, while you play

Play or sing and watch the notes land on the staff in real time, bar by bar. No manual note entry, no waiting for a file to process — you see the score take shape while you are still playing.

Music that Western notation can't spell

78 modes across 9 traditions — dastgah, maqam, raga, melakarta, kiñit, gamelan and more — with the quarter tones written properly instead of rounded to the nearest piano key. This is the part other transcription tools do not do.

Finish the track without leaving

Layer takes across multiple tracks, then shape each one: EQ, compressor, reverb, echo, delay, pan, noise gate, and independent speed and pitch shift. Twelve controls per track, mixed live.

147 instruments, including yours

Hear your part played back on bouzouki, balalaika, charango, oud, bandura, cello or grand piano — a sound set chosen to cover the instruments the rest of the world actually plays, not only the orchestra.

A profile, and an audience

Post what you record to a global feed, build a following, comment on other musicians' scores, message them directly, and keep the pieces you love in your own playlists.

It learns your instrument

Calibrate once and the transcriber adapts to your instrument's timbre and tuning. Your calibration samples also help improve the shared model that transcribes for everyone.

Plus a chromatic tuner that reads microtonal intervals, a metronome, and a scale browser you can play through note by note.

Sound Familiar?

Music creation is broken for most musicians

Capture

You improvise something beautiful — and forget it by morning.

No tool captures your musical ideas the moment they happen.

Tradition

Your instrument doesn't fit Western scales.

Many transcription tools are built around Western equal temperament and miss microtonal context.

Workflow

Notation software takes hours.

Traditional notation software is powerful but manual — no real-time AI.

Why BranchBeat

Where notation software stops short

Desktop notation tools are decades ahead on engraving, and we are not trying to replace them. This is about the parts they were never built for.

Notation softwareBranchBeat
Notation appears while you playAudio import, then processingLive, as you play
Non-Western tuning systemsCustom accidentals, by hand9 traditions, 78 modes built in
Quarter tones written properlyWorkarounds and pluginsKoron and sori as first-class
Built for a phoneDesktop first, mobile viewerRecorded and edited on the phone
Multitrack recording and mixingSeparate DAW12 effects per track, in-app
Instrument playbackGeneral MIDI147 instruments, world instruments included
It learns your instrumentFixed algorithmCalibrates, and learns from corrections
Audience for what you makeSeparate community siteFeed, profiles and messaging in-app

Compared against desktop notation software as a category. Capabilities vary between products, and several of them do parts of this well.

Global by Design

Transcription designed for more than one musical language.

Most music tools are built for Western equal temperament. BranchBeat is built for the world — natively supporting quarter-tones, microtonal intervals, and the scales used by hundreds of millions of musicians across the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and beyond. The number on each card is how many modes are built in.

Iranian Dastgah

12

Koron and sori notation

Carnatic

12

South Indian classical

Arabic Maqam

11

Quarter-tone scales

Indian Raga

10

Hindustani melodic systems

East Asian

8

Pentatonic and beyond

Western

7

Major, minor, modes

Ethiopian

6

Pentatonic traditions

Indonesian

6

Gamelan scales

Spanish

6

Flamenco modes and Phrygian color

Instrument photography sourced from Wikimedia Commons and used as decorative cultural context. Electric guitar by Dejan Krsmanovic, CC BY 2.0.

Where We're Going

Building the world's music platform

BranchBeat is more than a transcription app. We're building the platform where musicians of every tradition create, share, and connect.

Phase 1

Core Transcription

  • Real-time AI pitch detection
  • 9 world scale systems
  • Gesture-based note editing
  • Native iOS & Android app
  • US Trademark filed (BranchBeat™)
  • App Store & Play Store launch
Phase 2

Intelligence & Social

  • Musician profiles & social feed
  • Like, comment & share compositions
  • Direct messaging between musicians
  • Bookmarks & playlists
  • Offline batch audio analysis
  • Deep learning polyphonic transcription
  • Sheet music image import (OMR)
Phase 3

The Music Platform

  • Collaborative real-time composition
  • Sheet music & model marketplace
  • Multi-language notation (swara, maqam labels)

For Investors & Partners

A category-defining opportunity

$31B

Global music education market

500M+

Underserved non-Western musicians worldwide

Few

Notation tools built for non-Western traditions

Why Now

Mobile devices are now powerful enough to make fast music capture and notation practical. BranchBeat focuses that capability on musicians whose traditions are often underserved by mainstream notation tools.

Our Edge

  • •Purpose-built for microtonal and Eastern music transcription — a segment mainstream notation tools underserve
  • •AI that adapts to how you play, plus fast mobile capture for practice and improvisation
  • •Calibration samples and our trainers' corrections improve the shared model over time
  • •Live social platform — community feed, profiles, DMs, and playlists driving retention & virality
  • •Free to start, with room to grow into professional tools

Investor and partnership materials are available by request.

Founder

Sina Gharavi

Founder & CEO — Software engineer and musician passionate about making music creation accessible to all traditions and cultures. Building BranchBeat to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western music technology.

Contact

Interested in partnering or investing? We'd love to connect.

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