Impro-Visor

Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be...

• better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB. Guest • Jun 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

MMA

“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...

• After trying it out, I should be able to describe it. Guest • Feb 2019 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Produces backing tracks to play over. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Sibelius

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.

• Sibelius is music notation software. You would have to create the accompaniment yourself in the notation. There is little similarity between this and BIAB. Guest • May 2019 Disagree   Agree
• It's for writing sheet music, not for making backing tracks Guest • May 2018 Disagree   Agree
• Sibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not. Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

Frescobaldi

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...

• create sheet music not accompaniments Guest • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Power Tab Editor

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...

Free Mac Windows

Tonelib JAM

The 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...

Free Mac Windows Linux

Aria Maestosa

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

EasyABC

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows

ABCJ

ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-. • ABCJ maintains a library of ABC...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web

Denemo

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Canorus Music Score Editor

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

ScoreCloud Studio

ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - “Like Google Translate for music” - * Instant Score from MIDI or...

Free Mac Windows iPhone

Harmony Assistant

Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Stave'n'Tabs

iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

Freemium Mac iPhone iPad

DGuitar

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...

• Discontinued The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD