December 15, 2015 - IK Multimedia, the leader in mobile music creation, is pleased to announce the release of Riff Maestro,
a powerful free app for iPhone, iPad, iPod
touch and Android devices that lets users
quickly and easily learn how to play any song in
their mobile device's music library. An
essential learning tool for guitar and bass players,
it's loaded with useful features for both novices and
professionals alike: It sports effortless tempo and
pitch shifting, an automatic chord detector, an audio
waveform display, touch-and-drag loop point
setting, and more. Riff Maestro makes learning
riffs, licks and entire songs effortless and
fun.
Any song. Anytime. Anywhere.
With Riff Maestro, musicians will feel like
they have their very own personal guitar teacher
in their pocket. It can be used to learn
virtually any song in a mobile device's music
library. Its convenient browser displays
available songs. Once a selection has been made, Riff
Maestro's magic begins working behind the scenes to make
the song ready for use with its collection of powerful
learning tools.
Learning with Riff Maestro
How does it work? Learning with Riff Maestro
couldn't be easier. Users simply import a song
from their available music library on their
device. Once a song has been loaded, the tempo
can be adjusted with the tempo slider to slow
down difficult passages without affecting pitch
for easy learning. Users can set loop points in a song
to repeat sections and phrases until perfected. A song's
sonic information is shown via an easy-to-view waveform
display with a time counter displaying where the
play head is in the song. Plus, navigating
through the song is as easy as dragging the
waveform.
Chord detection
What makes Riff Maestro totally unique and
powerful is its optional Chord detection tool.
This feature automatically detects and displays
chords as they happen in a song. These chords
are shown above the waveform display as easy to
read chord diagrams or large labels. It's
extremely helpful for learning the chords of a song
and also for gaining confidence in scale and key while
practicing new solo or just strumming along.
Educational Power tools
Beyond the convenience of its looping feature
and chord detection, Riff Maestro also offers a
number of other powerful tools that make
learning a breeze. The Tempo feature can be
upgraded via in-app purchase to offer enhanced
sound quality and a transpose adjustment slider
that can be used to change the key of a song +/- 12
semitones. Similarly, users can purchase a BPM detection
feature that automatically finds the selected song's
beats-per-minute and enables a metronome feature
synced with the song's tempo.
Pricing and availability
Riff Maestro is available now for download at no cost from the App StoreSM
for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users or from
the Google Play store for Android users. BPM
Detection, High-Quality Time Stretch/Transpose
and Chord Detection are available as in-app
purchases for $/€4.99 separately or as a bundle
for $/€9.99.