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 Avid Sibelius.

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Band-in-a-Box alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps, but if you're looking for Digital Audio Workstations you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Linux, Windows + Free, Mac and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Band-in-a-Box.
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  1. Stave'n'Tabs icon

    Stave'n'Tabs

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    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Mac, iPad and iPhone versions of the Stave'n'Tabs
     
  2. DGuitar icon

    DGuitar

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    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

    33 DGuitar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. ABCEditor icon

    ABCEditor

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    ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Avid Sibelius

    Professional 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 su...

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    QAbc

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    QAbc is a minimal but useful GUI for ABC music composition. This program allow to write music in the ABC syntax and play, preview and print the sheet music.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. IEMidi icon

    IEMidi

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    IE's cross-platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
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  8. LinuxBand icon

    LinuxBand

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    LinuxBand is a front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical accompaniment for you. It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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