Band-in-a-Box Alternatives

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.

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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, Android and Mac. 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. Busker icon
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    Busker is a complete set of tools to create musical arrangements from sheet music (chords + melody staff). It uses Yamaha compatible styles (thousands can be downloaded for free) for auto-accompaniment.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Noteflight icon
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    Noteflight is an amazing online notation editor. On the free version you get 10+ instruments to choose from, lots of musical symbols and more. On the payed version (Cresendo) you get lots more instruments, guitar tab and sharing options. Best way to wite music on the web.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Noteflight is the most popular Web-based alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    • Noteflight is Freemium and ProprietaryBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
     
  5. LeMMA icon
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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. MagicScore icon
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    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students, choirs, ensembles and songwriters. Moreover, the prices of our products are really low.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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