Any DAW
Drag and drop
FL Studio, Logic, Ableton, Cubase, Reaper, anything that opens a .mid.
One file per verse. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
The oldest sample pack in the world.
23,206 verses. Written down in the 10th century. Nobody else has these.
Here's a fact almost nobody knows. The Hebrew Bible is written with a second layer of marks — roughly one to a word — and they carry the chant. Where the phrase turns, where it rests, where the voice rises. Scribes called Masoretes added them over a thousand years ago to pin down a chant that was already being sung, and every printed Hebrew Bible has carried them since.
We ran all 23,206 verses through them and wrote out the result as MIDI. Drag one onto a track. Point it at any instrument you already own.
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Genesis 1:1. The small marks above and below — roughly one per word — each carry a fixed motif, and together they set the phrasing too. Same verse, same tune, every time.
It's just MIDI. That's the whole feature.
No plugin. No account. No login. No tutorial. No format you've never heard of. You already know how to use this product — you knew before you got here. Drag. Drop. Done.
23,206 files
One per verse
Named by book, chapter and verse, so Ruth-004-011.mid is Ruth 4:11. Any single book is $5; all 39 books is $29.
Yours
Pure note data
Transpose it, restretch it, chop it, put it through whatever you like. It's MIDI — there's nothing baked in and nothing to undo.
The honest part, since somebody was going to say it anyway
The marks are real, ancient, and preserved exactly. The pitches are a
rendering. Different communities sing these marks differently, and anyone who
tells you there is One True Tune is selling you something.
These are rendered in freygish — the mode most Jewish liturgical music
lives in — from a hand-tuned motif table, one melodic figure per mark. It is not a
transcription of any one community's practice, and we are not going to pretend it is.
What is faithful is the structure: which word carries which mark, where the
phrase breaks, where it comes to rest. That part is the text's, not ours.
Told you up front because someone in the replies was going to. Now it's a feature instead
of a fight.
Psalms, Proverbs and Job: we genuinely don't know
Those three books don't use the same marks as the rest of the Bible. They have their own set — and unlike the other 36 books, the way they were sung was lost. The last people who knew were alive around the fourteenth century. Every version you have ever heard is somebody's reconstruction, and the reconstructions disagree with each other.
So the Psalms files in here are our reading, not a recovered melody. We're not going to dress that up. Doing it properly is a scholarship job — reading notated sources, transcribing, and having people who actually chant this tell us we got it wrong until we don't. That's real work by real specialists, and it is not something a guy with an AI knocks out in an afternoon.
We're going to do it anyway. It'll take as long as it takes, and everyone who bought a pack gets it free when it lands. Until then, be clear about what you're getting: the text and its marks are exact, but those marks are being read through our prose-system table, which is not the system these three books use. The phrasing is approximate and the tune is ours. If you want the parts we're most confident about, buy one of the other 36 books.
Deterministic
The same verse is the same tune
No generation, no randomness, no model guessing at a melody. A motif table you can read, one mark at a time.
Source
The real text
Straight from the Masoretic Hebrew with its marks intact — not a transliteration, not a paraphrase, not something a model made up.
Ready to use
Key of C, 120 BPM
Shipped where you'd want it: middle C, no instrument attached, one clean melodic line per verse. Transpose and stretch from there.
Get the MIDI pack
One payment, one download, no account and no subscription. If it isn't what you wanted, say so and I'll refund it — no questions and no form to fill in. It's a $5 thing; nobody should have to argue about it.
- Beta, and it says so. The motif table is still being tuned by ear, and some marks are read more confidently than others.
- Psalms, Proverbs and Job are our best guess — and it says so on screen. Those three use a different set of te'amim, and unlike the rest of the Bible the way they were sung has been lost; the last traces are from around the fourteenth century and the scholarly reconstructions since then disagree. Selah plays them with its own reading and labels every one of them. Honest music, but ours — not a tradition you can check it against.
- Hebrew Bible only. Te'amim are a Hebrew Bible notation; there is nothing to read in other texts.
- Not a chanting teacher. It plays the marks musically. If you are learning to lein for a service, learn from a person or a trope tutor.
Ecclesiastes
$5
222 verses. The one you already know the tune to.
The whole Hebrew Bible
$29
23,206 verses. A tenth of a penny each. I did that math for you because I know you weren't going to.
- One MIDI file per verse, named by chapter and verse
- Your sounds, your call — nothing baked in
- Key of C, 120 BPM, drag it into any DAW
- Ten tuning files free, so you can play it off the piano grid
Email me and I'll refund it. No form, no questions. Neither of us has time to argue about $29.
Free, no email, no account
Ten tuning files, so you can get off the piano grid
These MIDI files are in normal twelve-tone tuning, because that's what your DAW eats. Worth saying what that costs. The communities who actually chant this text sing it in maqam, which uses notes that have no key on a piano. The maqam Syrian congregations read the Torah in has a root note that doesn't exist on a keyboard.
So here are ten Scala files that retune your synth. Pythagorean. Four maqamat. The Greek enharmonic, with the quarter-tone steps Archytas wrote down around 400 BC. Load one, play the same file, and hear what the keyboard has been costing you.
Works in Surge XT, which is free. Also Pianoteq, Kontakt and the u-he synths.
Download the tuning packNone of them is the "right" one. Arab and Turkish theory disagree about these notes, and players match neither. Every file says so in its own header.