Riffstation - FREE

[philbarker]

Riffstation is available for free for those interested. It says "Free Download" and you initially think it might be a trial or have some kind of limitation but it seems not. All that's required is an email address and I would think any email address would do.

My source is:
www.howtogeek.com/fyi/free-download-fenders-riffstation-shows-you-chords-for-any-song/

the direct link is:
pro.riffstation.com/download/#

This is a BT I made today from the original Atlantis:
app.box.com/s/y40ya06dwg528jl192q06fvlhy3o5oid

and this is a youtube demo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVkLsR-lro

Previous threads re Riffstation on this site were posted in 2012/13 and are at:
charliehall.proboards.com/thread/14956/riffstation-amazing

and

charliehall.proboards.com/thread/13803/riffstation

[Cruachan]

Thanks Phil!

Showing the chords while a tune is playing could prove to be the answer to my prayers! Hopefully should be a massive time saver 😀

Wonder why they are now providing this at no cost? Perhaps I can now look forward to being bombarded by emails advertising other products 🙁

Might prove to be a mixed blessing. I can always unsubscribe when such emails arrive....hopefully.

Regards,
Mike

[philbarker]

Yes Mike that's exactly what I thought. If I can't unsubscribe I'll just re-direct to spam.

[jondonwar]

thanks phil iv downloaded it and will save me some time working cords out , thanks for posting regards john

[lw]

Good for showing the chords, but I tried several tracks and found it pretty useless for making a backing track. I couldn't manage to adequately isolate the lead guitar, and if you make the detection filter wide enough to reduce the lead then the whole thing becomes very muted and muddy.

[Cruachan]

This coincided with my having to work out the chords of a new tune for my playing buddy. Great, I thought, this should save some time! I ran the tune through Riffstation and wrote down all the displayed chords and the timings for each chord. Looking good, I thought......that is until I started to play what I’d recorded and discovered just how inaccurate Riffstation’s chord detection routines are. Ah well, back to doing this by ear. At least I have the benefit of being able to use the eband JS-10 which allows me to isolate short sections and slow things right down. That way I can identify the individual note structure of any tricky chords.

Maybe I shouldn’t rush to judgement. Perhaps next time I’ll have better luck.

Mike