Top 15 LilyPond Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. It uses a simple text notation for music input, which LilyPond interprets and processes in a series of stages. In the final stage, music notation is output to PDF (via PostScript) or other graphical formats, such as SVG or PNG. LilyPond also has the facility to generate MIDI files that correspond to the music notation output. ...

1. Symphony Pro

Symphony Pro Symphony Pro is a powerful music notation and composition app for iPad.FEATURES• 114 built-in instruments for playback, and auditioning the notes you entered.• Create scores in standard music notation or tablature• Edit with an on-screen instrument, QWERTY keyboard, or a MIDI input device• Dozens of shortcuts & gestures to......

2. MuseScore

MuseScore MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It has an integrated sequencer to allow for immediate playback of the score. MuseScore can import and export MusicXML and standard Midi......

3. Stave'n'Tabs

Stave'n'Tabs iOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.......

4. Musink Lite

Musink Lite 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. Musink is optimised for speed and ease of use, letting you focus on writing. Musink......

5. Midi Sheet Music

Midi Sheet Music Midi Sheet Music is a free program that plays MIDI music files while highlighting the piano notes and sheet music notes.......

6. tonica fugata

tonica fugata The first software worldwide for compositions, canons, fugues.You know what it's like: Only an hour to go until choir practice and you had intended to compose a four-part harmony for your choir to sing... You have to do composition homework or a tricky analysis? tonica fugata does this work for......

7. NoteEdit

NoteEdit NoteEdit is a musical score editor for Linux. It can import/export MIDI and MusicXML, export Lilypond, MusiXTeX, PMX and ABC files, read and record from a MIDI keyboard, handle manually entered notation, complex multistaff layouts and lyrics. NoteEdit also features advanced functions such as score transposition, accidentals reduction, automatic bar......

8. Radium

Radium Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface.- Compared to the normal sequencer interface editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen.- Compared to trackers, note positions and effects are edited graphically, which should be quicker, provide more vertical space and give a better......

9. capella-scan

capella-scan 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. At last, there is now a way of......

10. capella

capella With capella you can instantly create complete scores. No other notation program will take you by the hand and gently guide you towards your first own score in the manner in which capella does it. There is no need to be fully computer literate - you just follow your musical......

11. Rosegarden

Rosegarden Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.......

12. Sibelius

Sibelius Sibelius is the world’s best-selling music notation software, trusted by top composers, publishers, and students alike. With Sibelius 7.5, you can express, accelerate, and promote your creativity in more ways than ever before, enabling you to deliver beautiful, professional scores faster and share audio and video versions of your work—with......

13. ScoreCloud Studio

ScoreCloud Studio ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - “Like Google Translate for music” - * Instant Score from MIDI or Audio* Arrange and Edit your Score* Print, Export and ShareIdeal for musicians, students, teachers, choirs and bands as well as composers and......

14. Flat

Flat Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor.Create and edit your music score documents directly with your web browser in realtime with your friends or colleagues.Flat brings the following features among many others:- Your music notation editor online in your......

15. Reactable

Reactable The Reactable is an electronic music instrument available as an App and as a tangible multitouch unit for live performance and creation of music.......