Record it once. Let people read along.
Put a score on one of your own takes, pick a view, and export it — that part costs nothing.
NewNine ways to show the score · Guitar Pro import · free export
Your playing, with the notes on it.
Notera listens to your recording, finds every bar of the score inside it, and draws the tab or notation over the picture — with the note you are playing lit as you play it. No tapping beats. No tempo guessing. One pass, then export it for wherever it is going.
Windows 10 and 11 · free to use · a free account to export
Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 — aligned by Notera from the recording alone, then exported. Nothing in this clip was placed by hand.
The whole idea
Every note, lit as you play it
The playhead rides the staff and the note under it lights up on the attack — the note you actually played, not the one a click track says you should be on. Speed up, drag a bar, hold a fermata: it goes where you went.
That is what turns a video with notation stuck on top into one somebody can learn from.
- The current note is lit, every note, all the way through
- Rubato, ritardando, a held chord — the playhead follows your playing
- Bar numbers on screen, so a comment can say “bar 37” and mean it
How it looks
Nine ways to put the score on the picture
Three that sit still over your video, six that move with the music. Every clip here is the same Nocturne, the same alignment, exported straight out of Notera — pick one to hold it.
StripA dark band with light notes. Built to be read on a phone at arm’s length.
On the picture
In motion
Smooth, not stepped
The playhead rides one continuous curve through the notes. It glides across barlines instead of jumping, and every card turn and page glide lands on the downbeat.
Your colours
Pick the glow and the band for Ribbon and Ring, the accent on the paper views, the colour of the spotlight.
Tab, notation or both
Every view draws what you ask for. Top or bottom, light or dark ink, size and backing plate all move independently.
Getting the score in
Start from whatever you already have
Guitar Pro, MIDI, MusicXML, a PDF — or write the thing here. The video half works the same either way.
Every Guitar Pro version opens natively. Strings and frets come across exactly as written, with the tuning and capo, hammer-ons, slides, bends, vibrato and palm mutes. Repeats and alternate endings are written out in the order they are played, so the score runs the way you play it through — and your sections arrive as named markers.
The sync
Press Align. That is the whole step.
Notera reduces the score and the recording to what they have in common — which pitches are sounding, and when something is struck — and finds the path between them. Then it tells you which bars, if any, are worth a second look.
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Bring the score
Open a Guitar Pro, MIDI, MusicXML or PDF file, or write it here. Guitar, bass, keys and drums, as many tracks as the song has.
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Drop in the recording
Phone clip, interface take, whatever you have. Talk all you like before the first chord — it finds where the music starts.
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Press Align
Notera listens and places every bar in the recording. The whole four-and-a-half-minute Nocturne on this page took eleven seconds.
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Glance at what it flagged
It marks the bars it is unsure about. Drag a note onto the attack it belongs to and everything else stays put.
< 5 msmedian onset error
43 msworst case — under two frames
0beats you tap
Measured against a known non-linear warp, from 0.6× to 1.75× the written tempo, with and without an opening rest. The first note lands within 3 ms every time.
Every bar laid out on the video’s own timeline, so the tempo curve shows up as bar width. Click one to jump to it, nudge it by 50 or 200 ms, or snap a bar line to the playhead.
The export
Shaped for wherever it is going
An H.264 MP4 with the score burned in, at the size the platform wants. Change the shape and the picture is never stretched — it sits whole on a blurred copy of itself, or fills the frame with a centre crop. Notation is laid out again for the output width, so it is crisp at any size, and your audio comes through untouched.
FreeEvery view and frame size, standard quality, with a small “Made with Notera” mark that moves around the picture. Needs a free account.
ProNo mark, in the export or the preview. Standard or high quality.
YouTube16:9 · 1920 × 1080
TikTok · Reels · Shorts9:16 · 1080 × 1920
Instagram feed4:5 · 1080 × 1350
Square1:1 · 1080 × 1080
OriginalExactly what you shot
A free 9:16 export, straight out of Notera — Ribbon view, blurred edges, the mark roaming.
Underneath it
A real score editor, not a caption tool
The overlay is only as good as the score behind it — so the score half is a multitrack tab, notation, piano roll and drum editor worth using on its own.
Tab for anything with strings
Guitar, bass, seven strings, drop tunings, capos. Hammer-ons, slides, bends and palm mutes, written the way you would write them on paper.
Notation that lines up
Standard notation above the tab on one shared timeline, properly engraved — beams, tuplets, ties and rests.
Full multitrack
Guitar, bass, keys and drums together, with volume, pan and reverb each. The thing you sync to sounds like the song.
Tempo and meter anywhere
A 5/8 verse into a 4/4 chorus with a ritardando between them. The alignment follows it without being told.
Real instruments
A bundled SoundFont with all 128 General MIDI voices, a built-in synth with a guitar amp model, or your own MIDI gear.
Print the parts
Engraved PDF with title, key, tunings and page numbers. Full score or separate parts, notation, tab, or both.
Get it
Notera 1.0 for Windows
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. ffmpeg is bundled — nothing else to install.
Installer
Start menu entry, and .notera projects open with a double-click.
Portable
One executable, no installation, no registry. Runs from a USB stick.
Pricing
Free to make and export. Pro for the clean cut.
The whole app and every view are free, and so is the MP4 — with a small mark on it. Pro takes the mark off and adds high quality.
Free
€0/forever
No trial clock. A free account is all it takes to export.
Download for WindowsWindows 10 and 11 · installer or portable.
- The whole score editor — tab, notation, piano roll, drums
- Import Guitar Pro, MIDI, MusicXML and PDF, or write from scratch
- Align to your video as often as you like, with the review strip and the manual sync editor
- All nine views, every setting, your own colours
- MP4 export in every frame size, at standard quality
- A small moving “Made with Notera” mark on the video
- PDF, MIDI and WAV export
Pro
Notera Pro
€89.90/year
€7.49 a month, billed once a year.
Get Pro — €89.90/yearVAT included · cancel any time · 14-day refund.
- Everything in Free
- No “Made with Notera” mark — in the export or the preview
- High quality export, as well as standard
- Unlimited videos, on every machine you sign in on