Microsoft Songsmith Alternatives

Microsoft Songsmith is described as 'Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Microsoft Songsmith for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad. The best alternative is Impro-Visor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft Songsmith are Band-in-a-Box, Busker, MMA and ChordPulse.

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Microsoft Songsmith

Paid • Proprietary
Windows

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Impro-Visor
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Free • Open Source
Music Production App
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Windows
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65 alternatives to 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 improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes.

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Band-in-a-Box
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
Mac
Windows
63 alternatives to Band-in-a-Box
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.
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Band-in-a-Box Features
1. Support for VST PluginsBand-in-a-Box support third-party Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins.
2. Music SequencerRecord, edit, or play back music with Band-in-a-Box, by handling note and performance information.
Generative acompaniment
Accompaniment
Busker
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
Windows
52 alternatives to Busker
Busker is a 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.

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MMA
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Free • Open Source
Music Production App
Mac
Windows
Linux
8 alternatives to MMA
“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. It creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives.
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MMA Features
1. Support for MIDIMMA includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
ChordPulse
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Freemium • Proprietary
Music Production App
Windows
10 alternatives to ChordPulse
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.
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Chord Pad
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
5 alternatives to Chord Pad
A chord sequencer with 300+ great sounding styles. Allows you to create chord progressions and backing tracks in minutes.

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Ludwig
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
Windows
6 alternatives to Ludwig
The music software Ludwig automatically arranges your songs with a few clicks. Accompanying parts fit the melody well. Automatic Chords. Pop, Rock, Jazz, Country, Classic.

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Modacity
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Freemium • Proprietary
Music Production App
iPhone
iPad
7 alternatives to Modacity
Are you a practice-savvy musician? Get the perfect music practice app to help you organize, focus, and track your practice progress.

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ChordPad
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
7 alternatives to ChordPad
Described as chord sequencer it lets you quickly create chord progressions, play them in many styles, transpose, adjust tempo, change instruments. Great for practicing. I used it for improving my scales on guitar and I have to tell it is amazing.
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POP3 Support
Groovyband Live!
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
Windows
8 alternatives to Groovyband Live!
Groovyband Live! is a realtime arranger software that runs on any Windows PC (tablet, laptop, desktop), interfaces with MIDI input devices (keyboards, pedal board, control surfaces) and produces a live stream of MIDI events to drive a suitable sound generator.
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Groovyband Live! Features
1. Support for MIDIGroovyband Live! includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
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