The Best Free Band-in-a-Box AlternativesTop Music Production Apps like Band-in-a-Box
The best free alternative to Band-in-a-Box is Impro-Visor, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Band-in-a-Box and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Band-in-a-Box are ChordPulse, MMA, JJazzLab and Rosegarden.
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63 Impro-Visor alternativesImpro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
DiscontinuedThe latest update is from 2019.
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11 ChordPulse alternativesChordPulse 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 full accompaniment, a drum machine with bass, a metronome with chords, and more.
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Comments about ChordPulse as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Top Positive Commentit'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
Most Recent CommentEasy to use, simple interface that even beats I-Real Pro.
I have BB but this is easier for beginners.
“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.
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Comments about MMA as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Most Recent CommentMMA is free. It runs on (among other platforms) linux. I have it running on my $35 Raspberrry Pi. The data file of chords (and, optionally, melodies, and song structure (repeats!), is text but pretty easy to follow. Type in the chords, the repeats, some melody or solo licks, choose styles (and substyles) and a quick run will generate a MIDI file. A free Biab alternative!
Produces backing tracks to play over.
After trying it out, I should be able to describe it.
17 JJazzLab alternativesJJazzLab 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
France
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Comments about JJazzLab as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Easy to use and imports Band-in--a-Box files
106 Rosegarden alternativesRosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
- International
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Comments about Rosegarden as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Rosegarden is a DAW, BAiB is not.
IT's a DAW and BIAB is not.
58 Avid Sibelius alternativesProfessional music notation software for Windows and macOS featuring intuitive, task-based score creation, MIDI and onscreen input, up to 16 staves, guitar tab conversion, Magnetic Layout, dynamic parts updates, text and lyric support, scanning tools, and expressive playback.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPad
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Comments about Avid Sibelius as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Most Recent CommentSibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not.
The two softwares have very different goals - BIAB to create backing tracks, Sibelius to compose and notate sheet music. They share very few similarities.
Sibelius is music notation software. You would have to create the accompaniment yourself in the notation. There is little similarity between this and BIAB.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
BackupBand VS Band-in-a-Box
DiscontinuedLast release Dec. 30, 2008.
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52 Denemo alternativesGNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.
Denemo Features
Denemo VS Band-in-a-Box
better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB.