The Edge is a long-time fan of the company's guitars, while U2 bass guitar player Adam Clayton collaborated with the company to build a signature bass guitar in 2011. It has changed hands several times in recent decades and is now owned by investment firm TPG Growth.īono and the Edge joined its board of directors last year. Its most popular guitars include the Stratocaster and Telecaster. While not the first company to manufacture electric guitars, it was the first to bring the instrument to the masses. Both have lectured at Dublin Institute of Technology.īy selling to Fender, Riffstation joins one of the world's most iconic guitar companies.įormed in 1946, it is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Riffstation was set up in 2010 by Dan Barry and Mikel Gainza, who were unavailable for comment. It can extract chords even from brand new songs that have not been heard before. Riffstation's software helps guitarists to learn new music by allowing them to isolate the chords in any song and slow them down. Riffstation is a modest and appropriately titled three-in-one stand alone program thats primary function is based around helping you, the budding guitarist. I think I switched over to that free one eventually, and my.
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Before discontinuing they emailed everyone who had bought it to let them know, changed the free version to the latest full version, and said to download the free version as the paid versions would no longer be supported. It represents another move into the digital arena for the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, which already counts U2's Bono and The Edge on its board of directors. At least Riffstation or Fender did right by the customers though.
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Riffstation Pro is an amazing tool for beginners and advanced guitar players and will help unlock your potential as a guitarist.
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The iconic US business, whose guitars were played by rock legends Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards, is thought to be paying around €5m for the Irish start-up. We hope to bring a similar service back in the future, but in the meantime, we’d like to offer you a free copy of Riffstation Pro desktop app (normally 34.99), on us. Electric guitar manufacturer Fender is buying Irish music software company Riffstation.