The Best 57 Band-in-a-Box Alternatives

  • staventabs

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

    Freemium Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • 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...

    Free Mac OS X Windows iPhone

  • DGuitar

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • ABCexplorer

    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...

    Free Windows

  • TabToolkit

    TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine...

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • Jazz++

    Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Tabit

    TabIt is a full-featured program for creating, playing, and printing guitar, bass, or banjo tablature.

    Commercial Windows

  • capella melody trainer

    capella melody trainer helps you improve your intonation and learn your choir or orchestral part.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • capella playAlong

    capella playAlong makes it possible for you to choose the musical backing you want and to take it with you into your living room!.

    Commercial Windows

  • capella-scan

    capella-scan is a software that scans your sheet music and transforms it into an editable file.

    Commercial Windows

  • tonica fugata

    Composing it for you... Automatic three and four-part composition (styles: J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Jazz, Pop plus creating your own styles), automatic harmonizing...

    Commercial Windows

  • MuseScore Sheet Music Player

    The MuseScore Player opens and plays scores made with the free MuseScore notation software. The app dynamically fits the sheet music to the screen of your device. You...

    Commercial Android Android Tablet

  • 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...

    Commercial Windows

  • MagicScore

    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students...

    Commercial Windows

  • Guitar Partner

    Guitar Partner (former TabDroid) is a tablature player for Android friendly mobile systems (Google phones). Two versions of Guitar Partner are available: Guitar Partner...

    Freemium Android

  • AutoDrum

    AutoDrum is free, open source software for automatic drum performance, helpful for practice or speeding up composition. FEATURES 13 preset rhythm patterns can...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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...

    Free Windows

  • DTAB

    DTAB is a drum tablature editor which makes it easier to compose, edit, practice and play back drum music, rather than using programs more tailored to melodic...

    Commercial Windows

  • alphaTab

    alphaTab 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...

    Free Open Source Web