Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.




ChordPulse is not available for Mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Impro-Visor, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to ChordPulse and four of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to ChordPulse are Band-in-a-Box, JJazzLab and MMA.
Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.




Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.


JJazzLab is a free Midi-based application which automatically generates backing tracks (a musical accompaniment) for any song. It’s a jam buddy to have fun improvising, learn new stuff or just practice your instrument. It’s also a great tool for teachers.

“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. It creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives.
