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. DTAB icon
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    DTAB is a drum tablature editor which makes it easier to compose, edit, practice and play back drum music, rather than using programs more tailored to melodic instruments. Features include MIDI playback and file export, .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Sharp11 icon
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    Sharp11 is an npm module for performing music theory operations, ranging from simple things like transposing a note to complicated things like generating an ordered list of scales that can be played over a given chord.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Sharp11 is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    • Sharp11 is Free and Open SourceBand-in-a-Box is Paid and Proprietary
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    capella playAlong makes it possible for you to choose the musical backing you want and to take it with you into your living room!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. MidiYodi icon
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    MidiYodi is a cross-platform MIDI Editor for the desktop that allows editing, examination, playback and conversion of MIDI files. MidiYodi provides a rich set of tools to examine and edit the layout, structure and content of a MIDI file.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. AutoDrum icon
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    AutoDrum is free, open source software for automatic drum performance, helpful for practice or speeding up composition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Aria Maestosa icon
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    Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Tabit icon
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    TabIt is a full-featured program for creating, playing, and printing guitar, bass, or banjo tablature.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. MusiCAD icon
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    The main feature of music notation software should be the facility to produce high quality sheet music the easy way; enter music notes as simple as possible, using either PC-keys, mouse, or a MIDI-keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MEFA icon
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    MEFA is a program that can be used for writing, printing and playing music. The MEFA program is very easy to use and the music can be written in a fast way. The notation is presented above the text window.

    36 MEFA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. nimbu icon
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    The real-time arranger, to play characteristic accompaniments. nimbu computes song-related accompaniments from MIDI Files and loads and exports Yamaha styles. Every level of music can be edited in any way with undo / redo. Free trial edition.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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