The Chord Viewer is an extension of the chord bar in the audio track and gives you a suggested chord shape to work with as well as giving you a heads up on the next chord to pop up.

You can divide a song up into 16 pieces through 6 banks that can be organized through the riff bank selector. The Riff Builder is a fun and potentially incredibly funny way to take a song and rearrange it to either form a brilliant backing track or a manifestation of chaos. The isolate section is a filter that allows you to isolate specific parts of the song by frequency so you can hear a given part, be it the rhythm guitars, or a lead melody more easily. The pitch control allows you to increase and decrease the pitch up to one octave in either direction, one semitone at a time. The Jam Master section offers you the first line of defense to transcribing songs with the tempo control that tells you the starting tempo of the imported song and lets you slow it down or speed it up by 50%. Below the main audio track is a bar that shows the processed progression giving you a good nudge on where to start. Upon doing that you will see the track itself appear and below it a slimmer track for zooming and scrolling purposes. Importing is as simple as it is in any other program be it importing from the file menu or just dragging and dropping. The audio track is any MP3 you can get your grimy mitts on. Each tab offers you the means to bend the imported song to your will per your needs. The audio track that dominates the top, the play tools that hang out across the bottom, and the features in the middle, which are divided among three tabs of their own titled “Jam Master”, “Riff Builder”, and “Chord Viewer”. The interface can be divided into three sections. What we have when opening Riffstation up is a generally not very intimidating to look at. Being the anti-tab guy that I am I pretty much crapped right in my pants with joy over this and jumped on the chance get a more in depth look to see what the gun metal grey and orange themed program has to offer. Riffstation is all about learning with your ears. Riffstation is a modest and appropriately titled three-in-one stand alone program that’s primary function is based around helping you, the budding guitarist and/or seasoned expert guitarist, through learning songs the old fashioned way with modern approaches pitched in as well.

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Riffstation review 2015