Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux



Band-in-a-Box is described as 'Intelligent automatic accompaniment program. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Band-in-a-Box for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Band-in-a-Box alternative is Impro-Visor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Band-in-a-Box are ChordPulse, MMA, JJazzLab and Avid Sibelius.



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

Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music...




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.






ACS helps you to create music by providing customizable styles that you use to algorithmically compose MIDI songs.



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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The music software Ludwig automatically arranges your songs with a few clicks. Accompanying parts fit the melody well. Automatic Chords. Pop, Rock, Jazz, Country, Classic.

AMac (the Accompaniment Machine) is a sophisticated program to create accompaniments for solo or group performances and to boost the power of digital keyboards.

A tool for musicians to aid with the study of tonal harmony, harmonic analysis, re-harmonisation and creating play-alongs in different styles e.g. Jazz, Blues. Helps with hearing, analyzing, foreseeing & composing harmony in all keys.



vArranger is a PC arranger software, playing Yamaha, Roland and Ketron styles in realtime !

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.



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




create sheet music not accompaniments