ripchord midi generation | Is it a CULT?

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Published 2023-12-17

There are many leading midi generators for chord progressions, like Scaler 2, Captain Epic, InstaChord, Hook Pad, Klimper and Chordjam, but Ripchord from Trackbout stands our as a simple idea with a deep impact on the production world, because it's presets offer chord sets to non-musicians. It you don't play an instrument and have no music theory training, this "1 finger" approach is really cool.

What's driving it's cult-like following are producers and DJs who know what they hear, know what sounds good, but need chord progressions. Sometime these creators aren't even using a keyboard, but rather a pad device like an MPC or Machine. And what better way than to access the chords of popular songs as a starting point? And cudo's to Musicians Paradise youtube channel for making popular presets available for free to download!

In this video, I'll run through the basics, explain how the preset chord sets are a game changer, and tackle alternative sources for midi songs and building more presets. It's both a tutorial and an extrapolation of the cult-like adoption of ripchord #generativemidi #logicpro #scaler2 #presets #chordprogressions

📖 Chapters

00:00 Can a plugin develop a cult?
01:01 The Basic of Ripchord - creating chord sets & presets
03:33 Setting up Ripchord in Logic Pro
04:55 How to download and install Ripcord
05:20 Musician's Paradise YouTube channel for FREE presets
07:05 More chord sets, extracted from midi song files
08:35 Deleteing presets
08:49 More chord progressions from FREE sources
09:24 Importing chord progressions from Scaler 2
10:34 Summary

Ripchord by Trackbout trackbout.com/ripchord

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All Comments (5)

@TopDownDrumming 7 months ago

Super useful tool and great video.
@JeffyG 10 days ago

100s of free Ripchord chord progressions at https://youtu.be/riSrGNyJl4A?si=1hRTP-zbrnUSXZLB
@yaoguangtang1759 7 months ago

Hi, I'm here. Thank you for introducing this tool to me.
@dying2live. 5 months ago

Hi great video! question why would you wanna do the scaler 2 part and export it into midi into ripcord couldn't you just bind incoming notes to chord trigger and play around like that?