Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.
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Comments about Impro-Visor as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
- Impro-Visor is Free and Open Source
The Best Free Band-in-a-Box AlternativesTop Music Production Apps like Band-in-a-Box
The best free alternative to Band-in-a-Box is Impro-Visor, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Band-in-a-Box and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Band-in-a-Box are ChordPulse, MMA, JJazzLab and Avid Sibelius.
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11 ChordPulse alternativesChordPulse 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.
Comments about ChordPulse as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Top Positive Commentit's cheap. incredibly easy to use, it's very complete in its chord options and many styles which all sound great. Also, having a mixer built-in for the separate tracks like drums of bass helps me a lot. I also use it to create chord progressions which you can export to text and MIDI which I will then import into my recording software
Easy to use, simple interface that even beats I-Real Pro.
I have BB but this is easier for beginners.
- ChordPulse is Freemium and Proprietary
“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.
Comments about MMA as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
MMA is free. It runs on (among other platforms) linux. I have it running on my $35 Raspberrry Pi. The data file of chords (and, optionally, melodies, and song structure (repeats!), is text but pretty easy to follow. Type in the chords, the repeats, some melody or solo licks, choose styles (and substyles) and a quick run will generate a MIDI file. A free Biab alternative!
Produces backing tracks to play over.
After trying it out, I should be able to describe it.
- MMA is Free and Open Source
17 JJazzLab alternativesJJazzLab is a free Midi-based application which automatically generates backing tracks (a musical accompaniment) for any song. It’s a jam buddy to have fun improvising, learn new stuff or just practice your instrument. It’s also a great tool for teachers.
Comments about JJazzLab as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Simple to use and with a several song packages to download
Easy to use and imports Band-in--a-Box files
- JJazzLab is Free and Open Source
- JJazzLab is Lightweight
58 Avid Sibelius alternativesProfessional music notation software for Windows and macOS featuring intuitive, task-based score creation, MIDI and onscreen input, up to 16 staves, guitar tab conversion, Magnetic Layout, dynamic parts updates, text and lyric support, scanning tools, and expressive playback.
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Comments about Avid Sibelius as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Sibelius is a notation (Score writing) application, Band-In-A-Box is not.
The two softwares have very different goals - BIAB to create backing tracks, Sibelius to compose and notate sheet music. They share very few similarities.
Sibelius is music notation software. You would have to create the accompaniment yourself in the notation. There is little similarity between this and BIAB.
- Avid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
Comments about Rosegarden as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
Rosegarden is a DAW, BAiB is not.
IT's a DAW and BIAB is not.
- Rosegarden is Free and Open Source
- Rosegarden is Customizable
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
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 General Public License.
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Comments about Frescobaldi as an Alternative to Band-in-a-Box
create sheet music not accompaniments
- Frescobaldi is Free and Open Source
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 to the music and much more.
31 Noteflight alternativesNoteflight is an amazing online notation editor. On the free version you get 10+ instruments to choose from, lots of musical symbols and more. On the payed version (Cresendo) you get lots more instruments, guitar tab and sharing options. Best way to wite music on the web.
50 alphaTab alternativesalphaTab 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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better user interface. many similar facilities to BIAB.