Alternatives to NtEd for all platforms with any license

MuseScore

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
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Supports for MIDI Music composer Music XML Support ... Portable Export to PDF WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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TuxGuitar

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
Supports for MIDI Multitrack editing Portable Add a feature

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Guitar Pro

The software to compose music, transcribe your favorite songs, or simply read the thousands of tabs available on the Internet.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Music composer Add a feature

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Rosegarden

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
Customizable Music composer Record midi & audio in real-time Add a feature

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OpenMPT

OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great...

Free Open Source Windows
Mod-tracker Modules Music composer Portable ... Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Sibelius

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
WYSIWYG Support Engraving options Music composer Music XML Support Add a feature

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LilyPond

GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Audio editing Music composer Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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music21

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
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Finale

Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific...

Commercial Mac Windows
WYSIWYG Support Music composer Music XML Support Add a feature

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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
Music composer Add a feature

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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
Music composer Add a feature

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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
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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
Music composer Add a feature

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