Make Music With Your Voice: 5 Best Voice to Music Tools

From Voice Memo-style apps made specifically for musicians, free DAWs that allow you to loop and mix vocal ideas, and AI music tools that turn your voice into any instrument, technology is here to create complete songs with your voice.

To help you spark ideas, here are the 5 most powerful voice to music tools available to musicians on a budget that will help you make music with nothing but your voice.

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The Best Voice Recording Tools in 2025

1. Dubnote: Voice Notes, Reimagined for Musicians 

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Say goodbye to messy voice memos and hello to Dubnote. This voice notes app, purpose-built for musicians and songwriters, offers automatic audio splitting, transcription for lyrics and spoken ideas, visual organisation, BPM detection, and seamless export options - all designed to keep your creative process smooth, and focused.

Capture & Organise with Ease

Start recording instantly and save directly into folders called Notebooks. Dubnote's Custom Notebook covers let you personalise your workspace with photos or gradients.

Secure & Private

All processing is done on-device with optional iCloud backup. No data is shared: your music stays yours.

Powerful Features to Supercharge Your Workflow:

- AI Split: Automatically breaks your recordings into clear, searchable sections, quickly find and revisit your best ideas

- Auto-Tagging: Organises your content with smart AI-generated categories.

- Offline Transcription: Convert lyrics and speech to text without internet

- Time-Stamped Comments: Add personal notes exactly where they matter 

- BPM Detection: Instantly find your tempo

- Export Sections: Save individual sections for DAWs or collaborators

- Import Analysis: Apply these AI tools to any recording/voice memo

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Get Dubnote on the App Store here.

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Ditto Pro artists can unlock 3 free months of Dubnote by heading to their Ditto Perks dashboard.

2. Dubler 2 - Turn your voice into any instrument

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Dubler 2 by Vochlea is one of the most powerful tools available for anyone looking to make music with their voice, in real time. Whether you're beatboxing, singing melodies, or using rhythmic vocal sounds, Dubler 2 instantly converts your voice into MIDI, allowing you to use your voice as an instrument to control software instruments, drums, and effects in your DAW.

Unlike traditional MIDI controllers, Dubler 2 captures the nuances of your voice, pitch, dynamics, and tone, bringing a completely natural and expressive feel to your music creation process.

Key Features of Dubler 2:

- Real-Time Voice-to-MIDI: Beatbox drum patterns, sing leads and full chord progressions, or hum basslines with low latency

- Custom Voice Mapping: Train Dubler to recognise your individual vocal sounds and assign them to triggers like kick, snare, hi-hat, synth notes, or chords

- Pitch and Envelope Tracking: Use pitch, note length, and volume from your voice to shape how your instruments respond

- MIDI Mapping: Control effect parameters such as filters, delays, or modulation using the tonal and dynamic characteristics of your voice

- Compatible with Any DAW: Works with all major digital audio workstations and virtual instruments

- Optional USB Mic Bundle: Comes with a specially-tuned microphone for best performance, or use your own microphone

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 Get Dubler 2 here.

3. Orba 2 – Sample Your Voice, Play It Anywhere

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Orba 2 is a pocket-sized synth, looper, and sampler that makes it ridiculously fun to create music with your voice. You can sample yourself, assign it to a scale or rhythm, and then play it back using gestures like taps, slides, and tilts.

It’s a hands-on way to turn your voice into an instrument you can play anywhere, great for mobile sessions, loop-based jams, or adding a unique personal touch to your sound.

Useful Features For On-the-Go Production and Jamming With Orba 2

- Sampling Capabilities: Record or import real-world sounds and play them as instruments

- Looping with Quantisation: Build multi-part songs with loops that stay in rhythm

- Gestural Controls: Use motions like tilt and shake to control and shape your sound

- Sound Library: Choose from a wide range of built-in and downloadable sounds.

- Portable & Connected: Play anywhere with built-in speaker and Bluetooth/MIDI support

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Get Orba 2 here.

4. Moises – Make Music with Your Voice Over Any Track

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If you’re looking for a way to make music with your voice while practising, remixing, or performing, Moises is a must-have. It allows you to remove vocals, isolate instruments, and get full control of any track, so you can sing, rap, or harmonise over it.

Moises also detects chords, tempo, and key instantly, helping you stay in tune while you practice. Want to sample just the drums or build harmonies over an isolated vocal? Done. It’s a vocal creator’s dream, especially for live looping, covers, and acapella production.

Features that make Moises a versatile tool for musicians aiming to practice, remix, or learn songs more effectively:

- AI Audio Separation: Isolate vocals and instruments from any song to create custom backing tracks

- Pitch & Key Control: Easily change the pitch or key of a track to suit your vocal range or instrument tuning

- Audio Speed Changer: Adjust the tempo of a song without affecting its pitch, ideal for practice sessions. ​

- Chord Detection: Automatically detect and display chords in real-time for any song.

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5. Ableton Live – Audio-to-MIDI & Vocal Effects

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Ableton Live is a DAW, so if you’re used to making music in other DAWs it could require a bit of an adaptation period. However, Ableton makes it super easy to make music using your voice, thanks to its built-in audio-to-MIDI tools. Record Humming or singing, and all you have to do is right-click your audio file and select ‘Convert Melody to MIDI.’ 

Once you have your MIDI clip, you can use it with any software instrument. Combine that with voice-focused effect chains and free Max for Live tools, and you've got everything you need to use your voice like an instrument in both creative and experimental ways.

Note: The Standard version of Ableton Live is required to use the audio-to-MIDI features.

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Features that make Ableton one of the best DAWs: 

- Audio-to-MIDI Conversion: Turn melodies, harmonies, or beats from audio files into editable MIDI notes.

- Session View for Live Performance: Launch clips and loops in real time for flexible live performances or improvisation.

- Warping and Time-Stretching: Instantly sync and stretch audio to match your project’s tempo without affecting pitch.

- Built-in Instruments & Effects: Create with a suite of pro-grade synths, samplers, and creative audio/MIDI effects with hundreds of presets

- Max for Live Integration: Customise and expand your setup with free instruments, effects, and tools from the Ableton user community

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How to make music with your voice

Whether you’re in the studio, on the train, or walking the dog, your voice is always with you. Tools like Dubnote and Dubler 2 are revolutionising how music is made by making it more personal, immediate, and human.

No need to be a trained pianist or producer. If you can sing, hum, or beatbox, you can create full tracks, control your synths, or build beats - all with your voice.

So next time inspiration hits, don’t wait. Just sing it, play it, and let your voice lead the way!

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