Although most applications for composing, playing or learning music are usually available on the iOS mobile platform, in Apple's desktop ecosystem, macOS, we can also find various applications of this type. Riffstation is an example of this, an application for guitarists and musicians with which you can practice and learn your favorite songs.
The operation of this application is very simple. To start, we just have to load our favorite song and stop the application from showing us the chords automatically so that it will show us how and when we have to play each chord in sync with the original song. Plus, in auto mode, it detects major, minor, and seventh chords with 85% accuracy, according to the developer.
Riffstation main features
- Detect the chords of any song that we load in the application.
- Calculates chords automatically with very high precision.
- Change the key of the music and follow the transposed chords.
- Fine tune the pitch of your song without having to retune your guitar.
- Transpose key up to 12 semitones
- Thanks to the Tepo tool, we can reduce the song's tempo by 1/4 of its original value, double it or set a medium value.
- Mute the guitar track to create your backing tracks
- Suppress the voice of the songs and create your Karaoke tracks thanks to the Isolate tool.
- Follow the rhythm of the song's music with the automatic metronome.
- Save your new backing tracks
- Save session settings.
- Load your songs in MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, AIF and MP4 formats.
Riffstation has a regular price in the App Store of 34,99 euros, requires OS X 10.7 and supports 64-bit processors.