THE RIFFMASTER - Unboxing and Review 

PlayStation Riffmasters do not work for Fortnite Festival on PC at this time. They DO work for Clone Hero and other games, however.

Never thought I'd see a new official guitar being unboxed in 2024

For those curious it says "Compatible with Fornite Festival and Rock Band 4" under that white paper on the box.

the fog juice sitting there in the background is so funny

Acai receiving one of these is a given, but I’m glad you got one, too. Considering what you’ve done for preservation, documentation, and score-chasing, you honestly deserve nothing less. 🙏🏽

Fortnite Festival just turned me into a Rhythm game fan. I've never once played Guitar Hero/Clone Hero/Rock Band. And the Riffmaster will be my first ever guitar that I'll own and play. I honestly can't wait for this guitar to come out!

I never thought I’d see the day that NEW guitars are being made 😭🥺❤️

Never used a rock band guitar before but the fact that it's way quieter and is more friendly for lefty players are huge selling points to me, excited to pick one up

Thanks for the review! I was already looking forward to this guitar, and now I’m really hyped! I am a GH boomer from the days of the original, but I only just recently picked up RB4 due to never having modern console hardware. Can’t wait to have this in my collection!

It looks SO clean 🙌 Thanks for putting in the work for this video! Looking forward to this

Can't wait to pick one up when it comes out, I don't mind rockband feeling guitars

Pre-Orders are available now! pdp.com/collections/riffmaster-wireless-guitar-controller

I cant wait to get my hands on this! Thanks for the concise review

The wait for this hardware feels like forever, even though I didn't know it existed until last week.

The fact rhythm games are making a come back is wild to me. Its honestly thanks to people like this guy for still playing them long after they fell out of favor with the general public. Also the clone hero team. But Fortnight adding a rockband like game to their game is huge and is getting lots of people back into these games or into them for the first time.

Thank you for reviewing this man. As a zoomer rhythm game player, I always wanted to get my own guitar controller but unfortunately I haven’t been able to obviously due to no new GH/RB games being made anymore. This will finally allow me to try a guitar controller for the first time and I am so stoked! I cant wait to hopefully become as good as you and the Lore Hero group one day. :)

This was a great video! very cohesive thoughts and expectations from this controller. I'm excited to pick one up when it drops.

This looks really good! Excited to pick up a couple of these for my PC gaming. I believe they said the dongle should work with Windows as well, but we'll have to check...

Sending you one of these was A Wise Move on PDP's part. I hope to get the Xbox version whenever I get the chance.

Thanks for the review. Can't wait to use this in clone, hero and traveling.

I’m so happy these are coming back

I need this guitar IN MY LIFE NOW

Mine will be here tomorrow! I can’t wait!

This is so cool, This all still feels like a dream I never woke up from

Looking forward to this being released 😊

Love that set piece in the background of the second scene of the video :D

Man I’m excited for when they finally release these, my Rock Band 2 strat is starting to show its age and a brand new guitar for RB4 would be amazing. Hopefully soon they announce a release date and price

The guitar looks great and I love the name of it. I can’t wait to get my hands on it because I need a backup RB Guitar just in case my Red Fender Jaguar guitar breaks. Unfortunately my blue one doesn’t turn on and want to connect to my PS4. Great review. 👏

Can't wait to buy it

I’m really excited for when this comes out. I’ve been playing Clone Hero off and on for years, but I really got back into these rhythm games due to Festival. This controller looks really nice even if I’d prefer a Guitar Hero set up instead of Rock Band. Great video man!

I can't wait for these to start selling!

I always look forward to your videos :) PS: Rock Band Country Pack 1+2 is waiting for you.

Just hearing protest the hero made my day. Imma look into getting one of these.

Glad they are making new guitar controllers. Hopefully they are successful and we see drum controllers made too. Just cracked my rockband drums recently and really would like something brand new out of box.

Didn’t knew this existed, now I’ve seen it and I want it!

So glad to see a new guitar controller being made

Looks so sick and I’ll definitely pick it up when it releases BUT I REALLY prefer the GH style with protruding buttons and a clicky strum bar.

Hope they will be readily available over here, too. Finally a chance to get one for other platforms and make sure they all work in my game (only got PS controllers and it's impossible to find any otherwise). Not to mention the constant dread of "if my controller dies, I can't get a new one".

Heard about your review on FB. Thanks!

the one thing I wish they'd done was make it a bit bulkier, that's the thing about the Warbeast controller that gave me hope for this

I am excited off this, love guitar hero🔥

Glad you got one early!

Wait a minute, i need to pinch myself. Whenever i can afford this, I'm getting one! So cool, dont think id be able play as good as you though. Great review by the way...😎

I’ve always wanted to play guitar hero and stuff like that but never had a console of my own that supports it. This has me so excited 😂

Acai is so awesome. I guess your cool too

Are you able to use the lower solo buttons on clone hero as well?

Jake: "Don't vape the Rock Band fog juice." Also Jake: "Mmm, silica gel... 😋"

It looks so clean and nice

How are you activating Star Power, and how does it feel? It looks like you're trying to hit the thin select / back button with a pinky. I never learned how to palm Select (especially on the older models with a round select) so looking at this I feel like I'd revert to tilting or seeing if I could assign select to an input on the neck-mounted analog stick. While Clone Hero does allow for inputs from multiple devices (so I can use a foot pedal for SP), RPCS3, YARG and WTDE don't so there's also the option of feeding the Riffmaster and a pedal through xbox360CE, but then that'd probably add latency. If the Riffmaster has a nicer onboard method of hitting SP, that'd be lovely - is it just easier than it looks to hit those buttons?

cant wait!!!

LUCKY. the preorders were sold out in minutes. I was at work when they went live :(

Cant wait. May 1st cant come soon enuff

I've always preferred Rock Band style guitars even if that makes me a weirdo. I'll definitely buy a couple of these to support more of these being made and I'm exited to try this for myself. Not so exited about it being a piano black fingerprint magnet but hey what can you do.

Great video man! Can't wait to get this. I'm glad this works for Rock Band 4. I skipped the game and later regretted it. The prices for the instruments are ridiculous. This is my chance to finally get the game! 😁

Good luck on getting one thanks to the scalpers.

There needs to be a VR version of the guitar hero games. Imagine being stood on stage, rocking out with your best buds, it would be awesome.

Activating star power with the dpad is the only thing keeping me from ordering one. I remember when the Xplorer came out and some of us glued a coin to it for easier activation/squeezing, maybe there will be a similar workaround for this one

Seems like some early batch copies of the Riffmaster has some hardware issues according to Amazon. Hopefully by the time I get around to buying one they'll be resolved.

Awesome now we need new drums for rock band

Finally i need one for Xbox for years now i want to buy RockBand 4 because all my DLC for RB 1 to 3 was on the 360 .And Rock Band 4 dongle for Xbox are impossible to find .Cant wait for this !!!

ive played on a guitar hero/rock band craze again, getting this for my xbox one

God, Dream Genie is like its own kind of rhythm game compared to the rest of the songs in any Guitar Hero/Rock Band game. Just tech fc'd it and can't wait to grind it on this controller. This video was very helpful. Thanks!

I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope they release worldwide

Might need to cop one as my 360 world tour guitar is slowly dying and isn’t registering green or orange presses sometimes

Yeah I bought a used guitar for 70 on Mercari it worked for like a week now the strum bar double strums -.- can’t wait for this one

I’m picking one up for sure. Now I just need Fortnite Festival to update so we can see each other’s boards

I personally preferred GH Controllers back in the five-fret guitar game hayday, but I'll certainly get one of these if the scalpers don't get to it.

😮 finally getting back to rock band 🎸 again

can this be used with all the old guitar hero games? what about Guitar flash on pc?

The fog juice in the back has a menacing aura

Awesome 👏

That's good to know you can play clone hero on the Playstation version of the Riffmaster guitar controller thank you for this video

I don't even have the time to play that much clone hero, but I might actually get this. I don't own any consoles and I've really never played Rock band but honestly I just want to support new guitars being made by actually reputable companies. Great video!

I'm glad it's all black, keeps it a little more discrete

PDP should make a drumset for this guitar. 4 pads, with compatability with double bass, and pro cymbals

So nice to see PDP providing snacks so people don't have to vape any ancient juice

cant wait to get my hands on one after sitting here with 7 broken gh guitars

New guitar controllers ?! The universe is healing 🥹

Hermosa guitarra!!

Does the Rifflaster's whammy bar work when you play Clone Hero? Heard some complaints about it not working in that setting.

Cant wait for this guitar! Got myself a wii one because i couldnt wait. Does this have tilt?

I... NEED... IT!! [/spongebob] Hoping it'll be available here in the UK.

I hope they let people customize it when it gets released

it looks super super light how much does it weigh?

the vog juice threat worked 🙏

Great video, have you tried using it with fortnite festival on pc?

honestly just hope the strum bar is more durable than the OG RB1 guitars cuz mine broke years ago due to strumming too hard since I strum with mainly my thumb like a bass guitar and that thing was for sure not designed with how violent my strumming can be

I'm so hyped for brand new rockband/guitar hero gear that I would've bought the riffmaster even if it was a piece of crap. Glad to hear it's actually good.

Which game can we play on ps5 with a guitar like this? Or, better yet, can we still play guitar hero 3 with controller on ps4 or 5 ?

Would i need the xbox version of this guitar to play on pc or would the ps4/ps5 work for clone hero? If it does i am in need of a brand new guitar since mine is overstruming like crazy and such.

what new instruments, i had to check if this was a new video. crazy times.

Bro, the community notes actually linked this video!

is there any difference between riffmaster and Guitar hero controller as a playability and how they made?

but can you hit select for overdrive with your pinky like the old rock band guitars?

For anyone that doesnt know they made this to be compatible with Fortnite Festival but it does work on Rock Band 4. Theres an article saying they intentionally made it for Fortnite

so, what games can we play with this guitar? will they be releasing new games?

This is the only thing I’ve seen saying that it’ll work with pc. This is gonna be sick

My guitar from Rock band 4 broke 3 years ago..this would Bé amazing...finaly i would Bé able to play Rock Band 4 again❤...i just hope jts not gonna be really exspesive 😅😅

Gretsch Pro Jet Rock Band guitar is my favorite

not only we get a new guitar controller in 2024, i feel like this will open up a chance for new clone hero players to have a easy to access controller to fully enjoy the game