Alternatives to LANDR Composer
An AI plugin that generates chord progressions, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI for a DAW. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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LANDR Composer
An AI plugin that generates chord progressions, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI for a DAW.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as LANDR Composer.
Scaler 3
A music theory workstation plugin that suggests chords, progressions and melodies for music producers.
Scaler 3 is a paid plugin suggesting chords, progressions and melodies based on music theory, with key and chord detection companion tools.
Magenta Studio
A free Ableton Live plugin that uses Magenta machine learning models to generate and transform MIDI clips.
Magenta Studio is a free Apache-2.0 plugin with five MIDI generation and transformation tools, but it requires Ableton Live 10.1 Suite or later.
Hookpad
Songwriting sketchpad built on music theory, with an AI assistant that suggests chords and melodies.
Hookpad is a freemium web songwriting sketchpad with colour-coded theory and an Aria AI that suggests chords and melodies, rather than a DAW plugin.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
AIVA
An AI music composition assistant that generates editable songs in more than 250 styles.
Basic Pitch
A free, open-source audio-to-MIDI converter from Spotify with pitch bend detection, usable in the browser.
Synplant
A synthesizer plugin whose Genopatch feature uses AI to build synth patches from audio samples.
Neutone
Audio plugins and Max for Live devices that run neural audio models in real time inside a DAW.
LANDR
An online music platform offering AI mastering, distribution to streaming services, plugins, samples and collaboration tools.
