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Ripchord Player

Ripchord is a free MIDI plug-in by trackbout.com. It's basically a MIDI filter that turns single notes into chords. The associated web site provides a public forum for sharing Ripchord presets, which are XML files with the extension .rpc (called “RPC files” here).

The full Ripchord plug-in provides a GUI to allow creating and editing RPC files. Unify's built-in Ripchord Player is a simpler version which can load and play RPC files, but not edit them. To load an RPC file, click the Open RPC File… button, navigate to the file, and open it. Once loaded, Ripchord Player works exactly like Ripchord, except with no editing ability.

You can get RPC files free from trackbout.com (you'll need to register), or if you're handy with a text editor, you can create your own. The first RPC file from trackbout.com, with chords from The Doors' 1971 hit Riders on the Storm, looks like this:

"Riders On The Storm.rpc"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<ripchord>
  <KeyboardMapping name="Riders On The Storm">
    <mapping note="60">
      <chord name="E min" notes="64;67;71"/>
    </mapping>
    <mapping note="62">
      <chord name="A maj" notes="64;69;73"/>
    </mapping>
    <mapping note="64">
      <chord name="A min" notes="60;64;69"/>
    </mapping>
    <mapping note="65">
      <chord name="D maj" notes="62;66;69"/>
    </mapping>
    <mapping note="67">
      <chord name="D sus 4" notes="62;67;69"/>
    </mapping>
  </KeyboardMapping>
</ripchord>
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