# TIP: How to set up Ripchord in Cubase

**URL:** <https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294>\
**Category:** Virtual Effects and Add-ons\
**Created:** [August 5, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294 "2019-08-05T13:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rumdrum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/rumdrum/32/428_2.png) [@Rumdrum](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Rumdrum)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294/1 "2019-08-05T13:03:32Z")

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Hi!

This is how you set up the Free Ripchord from Trackbout in Cubase.

1. Create a track and load Ripchord into it. (I normally use the rack function but I guess VST Instruments will do just fine).
2. Create a track and load the instrument you want to play the chords from Ripchord.

On the Ripchord track set input to “All MIDI Inputs” or the input device of your choice.  
On the Ripchord track set output to"Ripchord - MIDI Input"

On the Instrument track set input to “Ripchord Midi Output”  
On the Instrument track set output to the Instrument (in the enclosed picture files SampleTank is used)

Turn the monitor button on Ripchord ON  
The Instrument track must be the active track

Now you can load several instruments and set them up according to procedure and they will all get chords from Ripchord.  
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**Author:** ![skank](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/skank/32/309764_2.png) [@skank](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/skank)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294/2 "2021-05-24T16:28:07Z")

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Incredibly helpful. Setting to monitor always catches me.

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**Author:** ![Nico\_Koepke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Nico\_Koepke](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Nico_Koepke)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294/3 "2024-06-14T15:24:28Z")

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Just for others, 2024 Cubase Pro 13 - this does not work, Ripchord seems incompatible now. Sadly.

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**Author:** ![glennthornton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@glennthornton](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/glennthornton)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294/4 "2025-09-18T10:41:09Z")

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Has this been updated for Cubase 14 yet?

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**Author:** ![Nico\_Koepke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Nico\_Koepke](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Nico_Koepke)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/tip-how-to-set-up-ripchord-in-cubase/131294/5 "2026-01-06T18:34:26Z")

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Correction: after some fiddling retrying in Cubase 15 it does work. Very happy as the CHORD PADS and the CHORDER in Cubase are frankly impossible to make sense of.