Avid Sibelius Alternatives

Avid Sibelius is described as 'Professional music notation software for Windows and macOS with intuitive tools for score creation, MIDI input, guitar tab conversion, and dynamic parts' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Avid Sibelius for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best Avid Sibelius alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Avid Sibelius are Guitar Pro, Dorico, LilyPond and Rosegarden.

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    Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg. This software is available internationally as a user-friendly, affordable alternative to complex and expensive current music notation programs.

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. 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.

    39 EasyABC alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. 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

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    it anticipates what musicians needs to make music and provides it. it's incredibly easy to use. Produces professional results and it keeps getting better every year. this is understandable when you consider that musicians created the programs

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    • Band-in-a-Box is Paid and ProprietaryAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. TablEdit icon
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    TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2) music notation software (Windows). It has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making scores. This results in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  6. MusiCAD icon
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    The main feature of music notation software should be the facility to produce high quality sheet music the easy way; enter music notes as simple as possible, using either PC-keys, mouse, or a MIDI-keyboard.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    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 others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.

    46 Power Tab Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  8. Reflow icon
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    Reflow is a music notation app that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is a 100% Native app that supports iCloud sync and latest Mac OS X features such as Versions, Autosave and Fullscreen.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    A simple and intuitive way to write musical notation, Crescendo allows composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. Arrange your own professional quality sheet music.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Graphical Notation is an app for music creation and graphical notation using Artificial Intelligence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    DaCapo Editor is a free Open Source music sheet editor which allows to easily create nice looking partitions. It is available as a web application as well as a desktop application for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • DaCapo Editor is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • DaCapo Editor is Free and Open SourceAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
  12. Musink Lite icon
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    Musink is a free music-composition software package that will change the way you write music. Create snippets, scores, books, and MIDI files; export your sheet-music for the Web; never worry about page layouts ever again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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