Compose or publish music notation, produce teaching materials or learn the language of music — Dorico lets you make beautiful music, fast.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- iPad
Germany
EU
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Busker AlternativesMusic Production Apps like Busker
Apps similar to Busker include Steinberg Dorico, which has a free version. Other options are Divisimate, Guitarix, Rosegarden and Avid Sibelius. You're spoiled for choice with Music Production Apps like Busker: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone.
Alternatives list
Divisimate is a specialized tool for virtual orchestration. Open the door to a whole new Workflow. Split your performance into its musical voices and send them each to separate tracks in your sequencer.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
38 Guitarix alternativesGuitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for JACK Audio Connection Kit with one input and two outputs. Designed to get nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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119 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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Global
61 Avid Sibelius alternativesProfessional 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPad
United States
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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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.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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64 Band-in-a-Box alternativesBand-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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- United States
13 ChordPulse alternativesChordPulse 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
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 (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Sweden- EU
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.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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
