Customer Ratings & Reviews

This Controller was literally the best gift I could have gotten for someone, the person I gave this to has used it almost every single day getting back into more serious rock band and even clone hero, I haven't seen them use it for fortnite festivals yet but I am sure they will get to it. It was easy to purchase and easy to find on the best buy website. It shipped fast and was delivered in great condition. It works as listed with windows 10/ 11 PCs as well as Xbox ones and Xbox series Xs, almost straight outta the box, it does have a connector for wireless which can be a negative for some but it can easily be put in a back USB port on a computer tower, or even on an Xbox and still work. We whip this controller out as well almost every time we do full rock band with friends, it does have a little bit of a getting use to period due to sensitivity of the fret buttons but once you get into the zone you get into that zone with it. I highly recommend this product as it's one of the only new made rockband controllers out there that comes from a reputable company. Plus the fact that it works with clone hero and with fortnite festival is an added bonus.

The PDP RIFFMASTER Wireless Guitar is a fantastic controller that delivers on both performance and compatibility. It feels solid, responsive, and works great right out of the box. Integration with PC is seamless, making it perfect for rhythm games like Clone Hero. Overall, a must-have for any serious guitar game fan—9.5/10.

You probably found this by looking up the same thing I did. You wanted a guitar for your PC and wanted to know what the best options were. I found quite a few people that talked about this one so I decided to check it out. Short of a custom guitar I can’t see how any guitar would be better. Yeah you could get one from the Xbox 360 that’s wired but those are also a little clunky being slightly smaller then what would feel quite right. This guitar is of course wireless with a dongle so it installs most of the drivers automatically. I got this for clone hero and needed to install a controller mapper but that was so easy just a simple YouTube video and I was playing within 10 minutes out the box. No extra Bluetooth adapter malarkey the other guitars were trying to say we needed just one mapper for clone hero and the PC recognizes the controller already so I’m sure any steam games would work flawlessly as well and I’m not entirely sure you’d even need the key mapper. Like I said definitely the best option for your money

So, I've been using this for about a month now. It's "decent". Not bad but not good either. The guitar will feel very similar to typical Rockband guitars being both the Strat & Jaguar. If you like the frets & strum bar from those guitars, it'll feel the same in that aspect. However the tilt sensor is really annoying. Sometimes you have to go to a full or near full vertical tilt to get it to activate & then it won't register till you're back to normal horizontal playing. Other times the sensor just activates whenever it wants. The strum bar feels semi mushy after some use & it squeaks a bit now as well. There is no button to activate the star power / overdrive like on the Strat, at least not in the same place. I haven't checked to see if what is that same button will activate because it's so far out of place that it's basically useless to even try at that points & just use the tilt instead. Xbox button plus other buttons are oddly placed & take getting used to where the new locations are. Charge cable already failed after 2 uses. Whammy bar is odd, feels longer than the Strat & gets in the way at times when trying to use it & it also falls down out of place. The joystick is useless for Rockband but works for Fortnite festival. Also not sure what the PDP button does. Nothing as far as I can tell. All in all, it's decent especially if you need a new one but it could've been so much better. They really should've reached out to a lot of the veteran Rockband player base that still play the game for a QA / R&D on it before releasing. It's pretty clear that this one will need mods for fret & strum fixes in the future like the old RB guitars do. I'd recommend but purely based on that these are the only instruments that have been made in years.

It feels alright. Seems to work well when I get it working. But I bought it to use on PC not on Xbox. And, on top of that, lost the dongle to it in the first week because I had no idea you could store it in the guitar so it's been a giant paperweight ever since.

The color is so dope. I got these because they have a regular headphone jack. Its been better than other controllers i have. The plug in options always feel better to me, very light.

Great pirchase. I bought two of these on sale at $120 and honestly they are worth the price when not on sale. My daughter and i truly are enjoying playing Rockband 4. I am loving being able to show her games i played when i was a young adult and just having fun with her. I highly recommend this if you are into Rockband.

So glad I got this, I would rather use the Guitar Hero buttons but that is purely preference. Main reason for 4 stars is just the placement of the pause, capture buttons. It's minimal and rarely notice it but sometimes it will catch you and possibly ruin a streak. Otherwise, great guitar.

The shape of the guitar is a little rough. The neck shape and material is a rather harsh plastic, so certain grips can be uncomfortable. It works pretty well, though I think the squishy strum bar could be much better (back-and-forth strumming seems a little off). I would have liked the buttons (like Star Power) to have been spaced or shaped differently so they stand out more clearly. I would have also liked if the frets depressed just a LITTLE less. They bottom out too low for my liking, as transitioning between them occasionally gets hindered by the solid sections of the neck between the frets. It's overall a decent enough guitar. Given the lack of market competition (or new rhythm games to support it), it does the job well enough. It's on the high side for the price (it's more than game+guitar bundles cost in the 360 era), but that's kind of the state of the music game genre.

Has included UBS stick that plugs into Xbox. Seamlessly connected with this. Works well to play Guitar Hero 4 on Xbox.

I can't lie, I went into this biased, full of excitement as my previous guitar broke a month before this released so I was bound to love it no matter what. It feels *very* high quality like it's built to last HOWEVER Setting mine up on the PC was a pain. After messing with it for 4 hours, it still wouldn't recognize as a controller. It eventually just started working and I still have absolutely no clue what I did to make it work. I've only seen 3 other people report this problem though. It's smaller than your Xbox 360 Rock Band guitars (unsure about rb4 guitars) which takes some getting use to. The lack of a "Select" button for overdrive is also a big annoyance as you are forced to use the unreliable tilt controls. Don't expect this to work out the box for games like Clone Hero either. It seems to be hard coded to only work for Fortnite on PC unless you use third-party programs to add a driver to the dongle/receiver and change the inputs. Lastly I feel like the strum bar and the whammy are in very odd positions that leaves my hand feeling very cramped as I tend to hold my guitar by default at a slant like; \ Nonetheless, this is a VERY nice guitar and feels very high quality. It takes a bit of getting used to and "Breaking it in" as your fingers will *definitely* blister on the buttons for a bit of time but... I'm incredibly happy with it -- Just *really* wish it supported more than *just* Festival

Great peripheral. Easy to connect and long lasting battery as well.

I grew up playing Rock Band on Xbox and the Wii. I bought two of these so my girlfriend and I had a video game we could play together, and we both love these controllers! They work just like the original Rock Band Guitars, and they even fold in half backwards which is convenient for storage. They also come with guitar straps which is great!

Love the Riffmaster but it isn't perfect it has its flaws like the strum bar being to small in my opinion.

I find the guitar pretty good, no issues for me. Played Clone Hero and Fortnite Festival and yea its pretty fun playing with the guitar instead of a keyboard, so I would say its an awesome item to add to your collection in your room.

Please make sure you are aware that this is NOT compatible with Guitar Hero games. But if you are looking to play Rock Band and your original guitar is no longer working then this is for you. Finding a Rock Band guitar in the market is very expensive, over $100 and then you have to worry about if the buttons are working or not. The build quality of this is really good. The good, or the bad thing about this guitar is the strum bar and that all comes down to preference. If you like the old guitars where you hear the clicking of the stum bar, then you may not like this one. The stum bar on this is silent. I use headphones when I play so I could care less but I do know of people who like that clicking sound when playing.

Its been at least a decade since I last picked up a plastic guitar. In that time, I had a daughter, gave her an appreciation of what is now considered classic rock, and taught her to read via karaoke. To fine tune her pitch, I went and bought Rock Band 4 strictly for the singing, since buying a used guitar controller that worked on the newest systems was like hunting for treasure. When PDP hinted at the upcoming guitar controller, I knew I had to get two. Now my wife, daughter and I are akl jamming out to the hubdreds of songs I have collected over the years. The riffmaster fits my hands like an old friend. Everything feels great, the strum bar isn't too mushy, the fret buttons push down nicely, its not too clicky. Now PDP needs to come out with a drum set and Harmonix needs to cone out with some sort of sweetheart deal to unlock RB3 exports (I missed the window when it happened forever ago) and all my rocking dreams will come true

This guitar feels good in your hands, a nice size, and the buttons are sturdy enough for many hours of shredding. There are no complaints for this controller. It works on PC and newer Xboxes. It does not work for Xbox 360 Rock Band 2 sadly which is what I hoped for when I bought it. That's not their fault though, it never claimed to on the box.

I absolutely love this product. It's so much fun, easy to connect and use.

Best controller ever get while u can ita so amazing