Compose or publish music notation, produce teaching materials or learn the language of music — Dorico lets you make beautiful music, fast.




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 50 alternatives to Busker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and iPad apps. The best Busker alternative is Steinberg Dorico, which is free. Other great apps like Busker are Guitarix, Divisimate, Rosegarden and Avid Sibelius.
Compose or publish music notation, produce teaching materials or learn the language of music — Dorico lets you make beautiful music, fast.




Guitarix 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.




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.

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



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.




Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.




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.




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.


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.

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.

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.

