Free Band-in-a-Box Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Band-in-a-Box for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative 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 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Band-in-a-Box are ChordPulse, MMA, JJazzLab and Avid Sibelius.

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  1. Impro-Visor icon

    Impro-Visor

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    Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

    63 Impro-Visor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Impro-Visor is a great Band-in-a-Box alternative.

    • Impro-Visor is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    • Impro-Visor is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    • Impro-Visor is Free and Open SourceBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
  2. ChordPulse icon

    ChordPulse

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    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.

    11 ChordPulse alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
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    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

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    Easy to use, simple interface that even beats I-Real Pro.

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    I have BB but this is easier for beginners.

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    • Most users think ChordPulse is a great Band-in-a-Box alternative.

    • ChordPulse is Freemium and ProprietaryBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
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    MMA

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    “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.

    8 MMA alternatives

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    • Free
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    MMA 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!

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    Produces backing tracks to play over.

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    After trying it out, I should be able to describe it.

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    • Almost everyone thinks MMA is a great Band-in-a-Box alternative.

    • MMA is Free and Open SourceBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
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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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    JJazzLab

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    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.

    17 JJazzLab alternatives

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    • Free
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    Simple to use and with a several song packages to download

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    Easy to use and imports Band-in--a-Box files

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    • Almost everyone thinks JJazzLab is a great Band-in-a-Box alternative.

    • JJazzLab is Free and Open SourceBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
    • JJazzLab is LightweightBand-in-a-Box is not according to our users
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    Avid Sibelius

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    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 support, scanning tools, and expressive playback.

    58 Avid Sibelius alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Sibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not.

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    The two softwares have very different goals - BIAB to create backing tracks, Sibelius to compose and notate sheet music. They share very few similarities.

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    Sibelius is music notation software. You would have to create the accompaniment yourself in the notation. There is little similarity between this and BIAB.

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    • Some users think Avid Sibelius is a great Band-in-a-Box alternative, some don't.

    • Avid Sibelius is the most popular Android & iPad alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    • Avid Sibelius is Freemium and ProprietaryBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
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    Jazz++

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    Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  10. Frescobaldi icon

    Frescobaldi

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    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 General Public License.

    40 Frescobaldi alternatives

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    • Free
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    create sheet music not accompaniments

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    • This alternative is disputed. Frescobaldi is a legitimate Band-in-a-Box alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Frescobaldi is Free and Open SourceBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
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    Denemo

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    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.

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    • Free
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    ScoreCloud Studio

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    ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that!

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    LeMMA

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    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 “Play”.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Power Tab Editor

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    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.

    46 Power Tab Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  15. ChordPro icon

    ChordPro

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    ChordPro generates professional-looking, printer-ready sheet music from a text file that contains lyric and chord information. This input file containing the music uses a simple text format for the notation of lyrics and chords which allows them to be properly interpreted by...

    13 ChordPro alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    The ChordPro GUI on the left contains the input text, and the PDF output on the right shows the corresponding output file that is generated by ChordPro. Source: Fedora Repository.
     
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