Busker AlternativesMusic Production Apps like Busker

Busker is described as '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' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Busker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and iPad apps. The best Busker alternative is Rosegarden, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Busker are Avid Sibelius, Guitarix, Impro-Visor and Band-in-a-Box.

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  1. Rosegarden icon
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    Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

    107 Rosegarden alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Rosegarden is the most popular Linux alternative to Busker.

    • Rosegarden is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Busker.

    • Rosegarden is Free and Open SourceBusker is Paid and Proprietary
    • Rosegarden is CustomizableBusker is not according to our users
  2. Avid Sibelius icon
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    Professional music notation software for Windows and macOS featuring intuitive, task-based score creation, MIDI and onscreen input, up to 16 staves, guitar tab conversion, Magnetic Layout, dynamic parts updates, text and lyric support, scanning tools, and expressive playback.

    58 Avid Sibelius alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPad
     
    • Avid Sibelius is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPad alternative to Busker.

    • Avid Sibelius is Freemium and ProprietaryBusker is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Impro-Visor icon
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    Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

    63 Impro-Visor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Band-in-a-Box icon
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    Band-in-a-Box is an 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.

    61 Band-in-a-Box alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Band-in-a-Box is the most popular commercial alternative to Busker.

    • Band-in-a-Box is Paid and ProprietaryBusker is also Paid and Proprietary
  5. Frescobaldi icon
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    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.

    40 Frescobaldi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ChordPulse icon
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    ChordPulse is a handy backing band software for music practice, inspiration, improvisation, and pure fun with music. Play and sing along with ChordPulse. Use it as a full accompaniment, a drum machine with bass, a metronome with chords, and more.

    11 ChordPulse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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
     
  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. Jazz++ icon
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    Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Denemo icon
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    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 to the music and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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