Free Band-in-a-Box Alternatives
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.
Band-in-a-Box alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps but may also be Digital Audio Workstations. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Band-in-a-Box.Impro-Visor
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
66 alternatives to Impro-Visor- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes.
Impro-Visor vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB.
0ChordPulse
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo10 alternatives to ChordPulse- Freemium • Proprietary
- Music Production App
- Windows
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 full accompaniment, a drum machine with bass, a metronome with chords, and more.
ChordPulse Features
ChordPulse vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
Easy to use, simple interface that even beats I-Real Pro.
0better 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?
0I have BB but this is easier for beginners.
1it'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
4Its just so much easier to use.
0MMA
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
8 alternatives to MMA- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
“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.
MMA Features
MMA vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
Produces backing tracks to play over.
0MMA 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!
2After trying it out, I should be able to describe it.
-2JJazzLab
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
17 alternatives to JJazzLab- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
JJazzLab Features
JJazzLab vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
Easy to use and imports Band-in--a-Box files
1Rosegarden
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
- Digital Audio Workstation
102 alternatives to Rosegarden- Linux
- BSD
Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Rosegarden Features
Rosegarden vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
IT's a DAW and BIAB is not.
0Rosegarden is a DAW, BAiB is not.
4Avid Sibelius
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Freemium • Proprietary
- Music Production App
59 alternatives to Avid Sibelius- Mac
- Windows
- iPad
Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.
Avid Sibelius Features
Avid Sibelius vs Band-in-a-Box opinions
The two softwares have very different goals - BIAB to create backing tracks, Sibelius to compose and notate sheet music. They share very few similarities.
0Sibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not.
4It's for writing sheet music, not for making backing tracks
-1Sibelius is music notation software. You would have to create the accompaniment yourself in the notation. There is little similarity between this and BIAB.
1Aria Maestosa
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
37 alternatives to Aria Maestosa- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.
Aria Maestosa Features
musagi
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo12 alternatives to musagi- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
- Windows
Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.
musagi Features
Denemo
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
50 alternatives to Denemo- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
GNU 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
Power Tab Editor
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo49 alternatives to Power Tab Editor- Free • Proprietary
- Music Production App
- Windows
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 others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.
Power Tab Editor Features