95 Like TuxGuitar Good alternative? YES NO With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature Discontinued Seems to no longer work with newer versions of Mac OS Very basic, but still pretty good for freeware. Guest • Nov 2015 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree TuxGuitar is to Guitar Pro as WordPad is to Word. It's not quite the same, but it's got all of the essential features, is open source, and is free. Guest • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
132 Like MuseScore Good alternative? YES NO MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Easy importation Export to PDF WYSIWYG Support Add a feature MuseScore is not specific for the guitar or other fretted instruments. Guest • May 2016 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
41 Like Rosegarden Good alternative? YES NO Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
18 Like Denemo Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
6 Like music21 Good alternative? YES NO Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
19 Like Impro-Visor Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like ABCJ Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
7 Like NtEd Good alternative? YES NO NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff... Free Open Source Linux WYSIWYG Support Add a feature
5 Like Canorus Music Score Editor Alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
7 Like Aria Maestosa Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
3 Like DGuitar Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature Discontinued The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.
3 Like Jazz++ Good alternative? YES NO Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music. Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Last release Dec. 30, 2008.
1 Like KGuitar Good alternative? YES NO Kguitar is a guitar tablature editor for Linux, featuring: * Powerful and convenient tablature editing, including many effects and classical note score editing for... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like NoteEdit Good alternative? YES NO NoteEdit is a musical score editor for Linux. It can import/export MIDI and MusicXML, export Lilypond, MusiXTeX, PMX and ABC files, read and record from a MIDI keyboard... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Homepage not available. Wikipedia article claims software is "defunct".
