What Ludwig can do:
Function | Free-Version | Premium-Version |
Compose your own melodies | ||
| Accompanies your melodies in over 50 styles with a band of up to 16 parts. | Yes (25 styles) | Yes |
| Automatic chords for your melody. Uses classical or Jazz harmony theory. | Yes | Yes |
| Arrangements follow your given emotional development to achieve contrast and climaxes. | Yes | Yes |
| Supports different verses for songwriting. | Yes | Yes |
| Writes four-part choral arrangements. | Yes | Yes |
| Arranges for arbitrary combinations of melody instruments. | Yes | Yes |
| Manages your pieces in a song database. | No saving but 450 popular songs included. | Yes |
| Each song can be stored with an individual instrumentation or arrangement. | No | Yes |
| Editing of styles and arrangements (advanced users). | No | Yes |
Practising Instruments | ||
| Creates easy training pieces for guitar, keyboard, flute, clarinet, altosax, tenorsax, trumpet, violin, cello and different recorders. | Yes | Yes |
| Shows fingering graphics for guitar, piano, flute, clarinet, trumpet and others. | Yes | Yes |
| Improvisation training (melody mute but visible in loops). | Yes | Yes |
| Improvisation training for inventing eight-bar themes. | Yes | Yes |
Fully Automated Composition | ||
| Creates public domain music in 50 different styles. No further input necessary. | Yes | Yes |
| Creates and plays music infinitely. | Yes | Yes |
Output | ||
| Full score on screen, single bars or line clickable to listen to them individually. | Yes | Yes |
| Print lead sheets or part extracts. | No | Yes |
| Plays its own music with realistic sounds. | Yes | Yes |
Formats | ||
| Saves full score or melody as midi file in the formats GM, XG, GS and GM2. | No | Yes |
| Imports midi files, detects the melody track and analyzes the chords. | No | Yes |
| Connect a midi keyboard to input melodies. | No | Yes |
| Recording in MP3- or WAV-Format for easy CD-Production. | No | Yes |
| Saves Music-XML Format for use in a music notation software. | No | Yes |
Rights | ||
| Created music is copyright free (as long as you do not enter copyrighted melodies). | Yes | Yes |
| Installed software has no time limit. | Yes | Yes |
| Download | Buy now | |
Screenshot: St James Infirmary arranged for Big Band.
The FREE Version has no time limit, the installed software will not expire. Use it to practise your instrument.