UChord by Ultimate MIDI Plugin is FREE for a limited time (Windows-only)

UChord is a MIDI chord progression generator, available in VST and VST3 formats for Windows. The plugin is available for free until June 15, 2026.

If you’re looking for a chord generator plugin, but you’re on macOS, check out Bloomer Free, a chord engine focusing on emotion.

Like all chord generators, UChord comes with a bunch of factory presets that cover various musical styles.

What UChord offers that not all chord generators do is a fairly deep level of customisation.

Along with the ready-to-go presets that include some of the most popular and commonly used progressions in music, you have a detailed chord table, rhythm editor, voicing editor, and per-note velocity settings.

The chord table provides a chart of chord roots and chord qualities (major, minor, diminished, etc.). You can select from a pretty comprehensive list of scales/modes, and when you do, the chord table will identify all root notes and their various chord qualities that are diatonic to the selected scale.

It’s very logical, but it might look a little overwhelming for some beginners.

You can select chords that are outside of the selected scale, too; it might be nice to see potential chord substitutions (borrowed chords) highlighted in another colour as a guide.

When you start to piece your progression together, you can drag-and-drop chords to rearrange your sequence as needed.

The rhythm editor with built-in arpeggiator also includes a selection of handy presets that help you quickly recreate common patterns.

You can save your creations to presets for future recall.

Once you have a progression and pattern that you like, you can drag it straight into your DAW to trigger any virtual instrument.

It’s nice to see a voicing editor included because voicings, in terms of being contextually pleasing and thinking about voice leading, often let a chord generator down, and we end up with clunky/clumsy copy-and-paste style movements.

As always, I think chord-generation plugins are good if they offer both learning opportunities and instant results. If you’re on Windows, let me know what you think of UChord in the comments, and if you’ve put it to good use in a new track.