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. ABCexplorer icon
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    ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to any other printable format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. capella-scan icon
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    Dispatch re-typing of sheet music to a nuisance of the past! Let capella-scan transform your sheet music quickly into a ringing score that is ready for editing and printing. capella-scan has put an end to the laborious task of typing out notes.

    34 capella-scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    capella melody trainer listens while you are rehearsing! Inexact notes are a thing of the past: Somebody is listening while you are rehearsing, shows quietly but uncompromisingly where you did wrong, knows what you did well and never complains… Isn’t this the trainer you always...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Stave'n'Tabs icon
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    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse.

    54 NoteWorthy Composer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Go PlayAlong icon
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    Go PlayAlong is an interactive tab player enabling you to play along with the original recordings, perfectly synced to your tabs. Stay motivated and focus on the songs that you love.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. DGuitar icon
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    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. ABCEditor icon
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    ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Tabular icon
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    Tabular is a brand new tablature editor that lets you read and write music for guitar, bass, drums and much more. It's the best way to learn new songs, write your own songs and run through practice exercises for nearly any kind of stringed instrument or drum kit.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. QAbc icon
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    QAbc is a minimal but useful GUI for ABC music composition. This program allow to write music in the ABC syntax and play, preview and print the sheet music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. IEMidi icon
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    IE's cross-platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  12. LinuxBand icon
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    LinuxBand is a front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical accompaniment for you. It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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