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...

• Produces backing tracks to play over. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• After trying it out, I should be able to describe it. Guest • Feb 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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...

• Easy and fast to create some jam-tracks, lot of styles, midi export Guest • Oct 2015 Disagree   Agree
• 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 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Its just so much easier to use. Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree
• it's cheap. incredibly easy to use, it's very complete in its chord options and many styles which all sound great. Also, having a mixer built-in for the separate tracks like drums of bass helps me a lot. I also use it to create chord progressions which you can export to text and MIDI which I will then import into my recording software Guest • Jan 2019 Disagree   Agree
• I have BB but this is easier for beginners. Guest • Apr 2019 Disagree   Agree

Freemium Windows

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 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It's for writing sheet music, not for making backing tracks Guest • May 2018 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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...

• create sheet music not accompaniments Guest • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

VArranger

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

Commercial Windows

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...

• Discontinued The project looks abandoned. Last version, 0.9 alpha, released in August 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Guitarix

Guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for JACK Audio Connection Kit with one input and two outputs. Designed to get nice...

Free Open Source Linux

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

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...

• Rosegarden is a DAW, BAiB is not. Guest • Oct 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Linux

musagi

Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

Free Open Source Windows

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows

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