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The best alternative to Band-in-a-Box is JJazzLab, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Band-in-a-Box and 17 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Band-in-a-Box are tonica fugata, Harmony Assistant, Melody Assistant and VArranger.

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  1. JJazzLab icon
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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
    • Open Source

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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
  2. tonica fugata icon
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    Composing it for you... Automatic three and four-part composition (styles: J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Jazz, Pop plus creating your own styles), automatic harmonizing, automatic fugue and canon composition.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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    Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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    Genius Jamtracks is a play-along app with an impressively realistic sound and feel to help you build your repertoire, your jazz vocabulary and master polyrhythms.

    “ Genius Jamtracks is easily the best play along app out there! " Paul Bollenback

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Android
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  6. alphaTab icon
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    alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from files like Guitar Pro or use the built in markup named alphaTex.

    50 alphaTab alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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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)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • iPhone
     
  8. TablEdit icon
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    TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  9. capella icon
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    With capella you can instantly create complete scores. No other notation program will take you by the hand and gently guide you towards your first own score in the manner in which capella does it. There is no need to be fully computer literate - you just follow your musical...

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
     
  10. ChordPro icon
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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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  11. EasyABC icon
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    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 order to produce very readable ABC output. Direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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