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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    Do you have a sound card? Do you have a musical instrument? Scolily allows you to create scores while playing!.

    7 Scolily alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. SmartScore icon
     3 likes

    Scan, edit and transpose your music in just minutes. There is simply no faster way to get printable music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning.

    9 SmartScore alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. NoteAbilityPro is a Professional Music Notation program for Macintosh OS-X.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Score-style MIDI player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  6. DGuitar icon
     5 likes

    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Busker icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. capella-scan icon
     4 likes

    Dispatch re-typing of sheet music to a nuisance of the past! Let capella-scan transform your sheet music quickly into a ringing score that is ready for editing and printing. capella-scan has put an end to the laborious task of typing out notes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Stave'n'Tabs icon
     3 likes

    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11.  9 likes

    Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. ABCexplorer icon
     4 likes

    ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to any other printable format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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