MMA

“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...

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Impro-Visor

Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be...

• better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree

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ChordPulse

ChordPulse is a handy backing band software for music practice, inspiration, improvisation, and pure fun with music. Play and sing along with ChordPulse. Use it as a...

• better designed user interface, you won't need a manual. It has lots of styles embedded, which all sound perfect for practicing soloing. Also, it exports to midi so you can load your jam track to a DAW and start recording your song. ChordPulse does not do automatic soloing but who uses that, really? Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Easy and fast to create some jam-tracks, lot of styles, midi export Guest • Oct 2015 Disagree   Agree

Freemium Windows

Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn...

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Sibelius

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.

• Sibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's for writing sheet music, not for making backing tracks Guest • May 2018 Disagree   Agree

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Frescobaldi

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the...

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VArranger

vArranger is a PC arranger software, playing Yamaha, Roland and Ketron styles in realtime !

Commercial Windows

Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many...

Free Mac Windows

ScoreCloud Studio

ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - “Like Google Translate for music” - * Instant Score from MIDI or...

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LeMMA

LeMMA is a simple GUI “front-end” written in Python for MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment – also written in Python). Just enter the chords, select the grooves and press...

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Aria Maestosa

Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering...

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EasyABC

EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in...

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Automated Composing System

ACS creates automated arrangements so you can compose music without musical knowledge.

Commercial Windows

NoteWorthy Composer

NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export...

Commercial Windows

Canorus Music Score Editor

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics...

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