Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.
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Impro-Visor vs Band-in-a-Box Comments
- Impro-Visor is Free and Open Source
Band-in-a-Box Alternatives for Linux
Band-in-a-Box is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Impro-Visor, 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 many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Band-in-a-Box are MMA, JJazzLab, Rosegarden and Jazz++.
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63 Impro-Visor alternatives
“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. It creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives.
MMA vs Band-in-a-Box Comments
MMA is free. It runs on (among other platforms) linux. I have it running on my $35 Raspberrry Pi. The data file of chords (and, optionally, melodies, and song structure (repeats!), is text but pretty easy to follow. Type in the chords, the repeats, some melody or solo licks, choose styles (and substyles) and a quick run will generate a MIDI file. A free Biab alternative!
Produces backing tracks to play over.
After trying it out, I should be able to describe it.
- MMA is Free and Open Source
17 JJazzLab alternativesJJazzLab 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.
JJazzLab vs Band-in-a-Box Comments
Simple to use and with a several song packages to download
Easy to use and imports Band-in--a-Box files
- JJazzLab is Free and Open Source
- JJazzLab is Lightweight
112 Rosegarden alternativesRosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Rosegarden vs Band-in-a-Box Comments
Rosegarden is a DAW, BAiB is not.
IT's a DAW and BIAB is not.
- Rosegarden is Free and Open Source
- Rosegarden is Customizable
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
16 Tonelib JAM alternativesThe Tonelib JAM is a software for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music for guitar and other fretted instruments. You can use Tonelib JAM for regular guitar practicing, for learning songs or for advancing your performance skills to the next level.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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40 Harmony Assistant alternativesHarmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.
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.
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Frescobaldi vs Band-in-a-Box Comments
create sheet music not accompaniments
- Frescobaldi is Free and Open Source
42 Melody Assistant alternativesMelody 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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52 Denemo alternativesGNU 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.
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”.
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better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB.