LinuxBand Alternatives

LinuxBand

LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical accompaniment for you.

It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box featuring:

Easy to use graphical interface
Open and well-documented data format
Output to JACK Midi to facilitate co-operation with other audio applications

LinuxBand has been designed in a way that allows you editing the song using Chord sheet view and MMA editor at the same time. It other words, LinuxBand will not break the formatting of your MMA files.

You can use LinuxBand to quickly sketch the chord changes you will improvise over. Connect the LinuxBand to Ardour digital audio workstation or other audio recorder to record your playing in sync. Download the archive containing jazz standards, country and Latin songs from MMA examples page.