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 Dorico, Guitar Pro, Rosegarden and Symphony Pro.

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Avid Sibelius alternatives page was last updated May 5, 2025
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  1. Overture icon
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    Sonic Scores Overture is a powerful score editor and music composition software.

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    • Mac
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    Overture Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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  2. Pizzicato icon
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    Pizzicato is a music software to write and print your sheet music, but also to arrange and compose your own music or even learn music and music composition.

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    ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that!

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    • FreemiumProprietary

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  4. 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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    Band-in-a-Box Features

    1.  Support for VST Plugins
    2.  Music Sequencer
    3.  Generative acompaniment
    4.  Accompaniment

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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
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    alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from files like Guitar Pro or use the built in markup named alphaTex.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Online

    alphaTab Features

    1.  Support for MIDI
    2.  Web-Based

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    NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse.

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    NoteWorthy Composer Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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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...

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows

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    Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

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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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