Chord Player is a windows tool that will play the chords on an arranger keyboard so that you will have both hands available for melody playing and style-variation switching.

The chords for the songs can be entered in a text window and can be saved in chord files. A chord file with the chord sequences for a hundred well known songs is included.

Text can be included between the chord lines for orientation or karaoke. The textsize can be adjusted.

The chords played are shown on a piano keyboard for keyboard teaching by example. Chord playing can be switched off so that you can play the chords yourself while the displayed chords on screen stay synchronised with your keyboard.
http://www.1manband.nl/chordplayer

Jos Maas

Jos,
What a brilliant concept! It will also be great tool for learning songs.
Would it be possible for you to modify this program so that one could use an external keyboard with your OMB, to play live accompaniment from a specified area of the keyboard, where the chords are specified by your Chord Player program?
This would be the actual REVERSE of a player
inputing the chords live, and having the
arranger play the parts. For example, it
would be excellent to play a bass part live(e.g.,1,3,5 appeggiation using the same 3 notes on a keyboard)into a sequencer,
without having to worry about chord changes.
This will open up a lot of creativity, and
will make midi files sound much more realistic. I am tired of SMFs where you can
tell the enire rhythm section was done using reptitious arranger patterns.

Vquestor,

OMB already has a similar chordplaying feature in the song window.

Jos