Top 15 Band-in-a-Box Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest... Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns.

Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks. These are recordings of top studio musicians that replace the MIDI track with audio instruments. They sound like real musicians, because they ARE real musicians!

1. ABCJ

ABCJ ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-.• ABCJ maintains a library of ABC files. Once a tune book (ABC file) has been added to the library it is retained in the list of tune books for immediate access.......

2. EasyABC

EasyABC EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable ABC output. Direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard. It uses abcm2ps......

3. 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......

4. MEFA

MEFA MEFA is a program that can be used for writing, printing and playing music. The MEFA program is very easy to use and the music can be written in a fast way. The notation is presented above the text window.The MEFA program can print music notation, play music and search......

5. MusiCAD

MusiCAD The main feature of music notation software should be the facility to produce high quality sheet music the easy way; enter music notes as simple as possible, using either PC-keys, mouse, or a MIDI-keyboard. Afterwards the it should enable you to print your scores in any way you feel fit.......

6. ABCEditor

ABCEditor ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes. It uses abcm2ps for printing music, abc2midi for playing it, ABCTools for reformatting......

7. music21

music21 Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology.Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, both algorithmic and directly specified.Although computers have transformed how we listen to, obtain, compose, and notate......

8. 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......

9. capella melody trainer

capella melody trainer capella melody trainer listens while you are rehearsing! Inexact notes are a thing of the past: Somebody is listening while you are rehearsing, shows quietly but uncompromisingly where you did wrong, knows what you did well and never complains… Isn’t this the trainer you always dreamed of?!All musicians always fight......

10. Impro-Visor

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. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise......

11. MC Musiceditor

MC Musiceditor 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 knowledge (other than musical basics)! In short: MC Musiceditor is......

12. Canorus Music Score Editor

Canorus Music Score Editor 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.......

13. 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......

14. capella playAlong

capella playAlong Take your own church choir home with you or play every solo to a large orchestral accompaniment!capella playAlong makes it possible for you to choose the musical backing you want and to take it with you into your living room!capella playAlong is the only software in the world that allows......

15. Pizzicato

Pizzicato 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.......