Riffstation Alternatives

Riffstation is described as 'Load any MP3 and Riffstation will automatically detect the chords and sync the chord diagrams with the music. You can also slow down the audio, change the pitch, isolate or mute guitar parts, loop specific sections and even sync a metronome' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Riffstation for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Riffstation alternative is Chordify, which is free. Other great apps like Riffstation are MusicTrans, ChordU, Capo and Transcribe!.

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  1. Chordify icon
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    Chordify turns any music or song (YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud, MP3) into chords. Play along with guitar, ukulele or piano using our intuitive playback interface.

    17 Chordify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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  2. MusicTrans icon
     10 likes

    MusicTrans is a powerful learning tool for playing any song. Take your favorite instrument, open your song and start learning it at your own pace.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  3. ChordU icon
     7 likes

    Extracts chords from any song, integrated YouTube. It's all free with capo tuner and comes with two versions of chords for a song. Start playing along.

    22 ChordU alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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  4. Capo icon
     11 likes

    Capo is a revolutionary tool for all musicians who want to get better at playing the music they love!

    16 Capo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Transcribe! icon
     9 likes

    The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which...

    22 Transcribe! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Sonic Visualiser is a free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to be the first program you reach for when want to study a music recording closely. It's designed for musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers, and anyone else looking...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  7. AudioRetoucher is an audio effects processor that allows you to change the key of a song. In addition, it allows you to slow down the music to get the right tempo. With AudioRetoucher the sound of an instrument or voice might be modified slightly, to make a vocalist or...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. GUITAA icon
     3 likes

    Guitaa is a free online music service, that lets you find chords of any song of your choice on Guitar, Piano and Ukulele.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Song Surgeon icon
     1 like

    Audio slow downer that changes key and/or tempo. Allows for the isolation of multiple Audio Segments (loops) within a single file. Apply different keys, tempos or EQ’s to each loop. Also contains automatic key, tempo and chord detection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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  10. The SPT-667 Phrase Trainer makes learning riffs by ear really simple. Say you want to copy a guitar solo. The Phrase Trainer lets you to load the song (wav,mp3,wma etc...) slow down the playback speed to as little as 50% (or speed it up to double-speed,why not?

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Learn and transcribe music for free from your web browser (no install needed). Load MP3s or a YouTube video. Slow down music, change pitch, add marks, beats, loops and easily navigate the song.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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