Riffer

The Creative MIDI Sequencer

Published by: AUDIOMODERN
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Description

Riffer is a creative MIDI sequencer that generates random patterns and melodies for you. Designed to feed any Synth, Sampler, Drum Machine and anything that accepts MIDI signal both software and hardware. You can choose scales, complexity, steps, start and end points, playback motion, set pitch, transpose, measures and many more.
Generate fresh ideas, sequences, melodies, riffs and musical patterns. Turn them into something of your own, or let it run endlessly using the Infinity mode. Riffer is built both for studio and live performance. The app includes a huge variety of scales, from western to eastern and you can save your favorite Riffs for quick access.
Featuring MIDI output support over WiFi or MIDI cable. Riffer also supports Ableton Link for tight sync between apps on the same network.
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User Rating

4.38 out of 5

16 ratings in Germany

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Riffer Reviews

Ableton Link not working

dude9913 on

Germany

Nice tool. But unfortunately Ableton link ist not connecting.

Generiert einfach nur Zufallsnoten

J[dot]G. on

Germany

Hier werden sehr einfach nur zufällige Noten ohne jegliche Beachtung musikalischer Prinzipien generiert. Das klingt dann im Ergebnis auch leider so. Natürlich kann man Sequenzen auch selbst erstellen, die hauptsächlich angepriesene Zufalls-generator-funktion ist meiner Meinung nach aber völlig fragwürdig. Da kann man auch gleich einen beliebigen Sequenzer hernehmen und die Noten blind selber eingeben, vermutlich dann auch mit besseren Ergebnissen. Leute, ein musikalischer Sequenzer sollte wenigstens grundlegende Prinzipien haben, wie zum Beispiel polymetrische oder polyrhythmische Patterns für musikalische Wiederholungen. Mannomannomann. Einfach nur die rand() funktion zu bemühen und das dann als ein ‚musikalisches’ generatives Tool anzubieten reicht offenbar nicht aus. ^^

Will not open on iPad.

Timor.ab on

Germany

Very disappointing.

One of the better generative sequencers

Steppa-9001 on

Germany

It‘s good. There are quite a few options to control what‘s happening when generating a new sequence, which really help getting good and interesting results. The user interface is well made and stuctured in a way that makes sense. But I miss the option to use an external midi clock signal with riffer?!

No chords?

Stark F. on

Germany

The app is packed with features end the UI is great but there is no way to play more than 1 note simultaneously. Why? Please implement this feature. Thanks in advance.

My go-to for melody ideas

Teilzeitflieger on

Germany

Riffer integrates perfecty into my workflow through the Audiobus 3 MIDI chain. Riffer creates randomized ideas, I can modify them right inside Riffer and/or with further MIDI filters such as the Roseta Suite, and finally everything is recorded into Xequence 2 and edited there. Thanks a lot, guys!

super

rafael_m_k on

Germany

thank you for the update. with AUv3 the app is perfect!

Unusable in Cubasis 3

Terbano on

United States

All most recent versions. Fresh install of both apps. Riffer actually skips steps in the patterns the user creates. Whacko playback. Submitted the problem with a screenshot and video to Audiomodern and they responded that ‘it must be because I’m in loop mode’. Then they told me they can’t duplicate it. Then they told me there are no problems reported in cubasis. 1 - if there have been no problems reported, then they wouldn’t know it’s because of loop mode. 2 - it happens with both loop enabled or disabled, so the reason they fired back isn’t actually a reason. 3 - a software company can’t fresh install an iOS and 2 programs to try to duplicate a problem on a machine in 30 seconds, which is about how long it took them to respond to me. So they didn’t actually try to duplicate the issue in any effective way. Cubasis users beware, Riffer and the support offered behind it seems to be pretty sketchy, and I can’t say it seems completely honest. I’ll happily update this if Audiomodern owns up to the b.s., Makes Riffer usable and apologizes, but until then, it’s a no-go. UPDATE 1: Audiomodern’s response: “…ask for a refund in the App Store”. Given the non-existent ownership of problems and proper support, I’d stay away, folks. UPDATE 2: Check their response. My tech assistant is on their forum, and now they have decided to make accusations of ‘multiple accounts’ on their forum, playing police with IP addresses. To the apparent detectives at Audiomodern: don’t play police poorly. Instead, work on your software and try some honesty. Many professional composers have assistants who (gasp!) work in the same studio, on the same ip address ;) When professional user calls you out for not putting any time into reviewing or resolving a problem before sending a refund request, nobody’s being rude to you. Calm yourselves. Do your work. Tone policing, pointing fingers, and accusations, rather than develop, develop, and develop, is useless. Sad. Stay away folks. If I get a proper apology and they get their software working, perhaps I’ll update again. I don’t expect much at this point. Probably best to stay away if you’re a professional and not a typical hack.

Worth the money, could use one huge feature

.Alucard on

United States

This is a super fun tool to use when you’re wanting to play. As a “quantized” sequencer it can make some super cool and interesting Melodies that are awesome to sound design to. One thing I hope the devs add in the future is nudging the notes or even the entire melody. I make a lot of sloppy beats and the only issue with this plug-in is the shuffle is mediocre at best. Even still, you can pull the midi out and move things on a sequencer like Drambo how you want but navigation on an iPhone isn’t the funnest experience. Maybe a note edit tab would do the trick where you can set each one’s timing along with pitch bend or other misc midi things. Other than that; still would recommend^^

Unusable in Cubasis 3

Terbano on

United States

All most recent versions. Fresh install of both apps. Riffer actually skips steps in the patterns the user creates. Whacko playback. Submitted the problem with a screenshot and video to Audiomodern and they responded that ‘it must be because I’m in loop mode’. Then they told me they can’t duplicate it. Then they told me there are no problems reported in cubasis. 1 - if there have been no problems reported, then they wouldn’t know it’s because of loop mode. 2 - it happens with both loop enabled or disabled, so the reason they fired back isn’t actually a reason. 3 - a software company can’t fresh install an iOS and 2 programs to try to duplicate a problem on a machine in 30 seconds, which is about how long it took them to respond to me. So they didn’t actually try to duplicate the issue in any effective way. Cubasis users beware, Riffer and the support offered behind it seems to be pretty sketchy, and I can’t say it seems completely honest. I’ll happily update this if Audiomodern owns up to the b.s., Makes Riffer usable and apologizes, but until then, it’s a no-go. UPDATE 1: Audiomodern’s response: “…ask for a refund in the App Store”. Given the non-existent ownership of problems and proper support, I’d stay away, folks. UPDATE 2: Check their response. My tech assistant is on their forum, and now they have decided to make accusations of ‘multiple accounts’ on their forum, playing police with IP addresses. To the apparent detectives at Audiomodern: don’t play police poorly. Instead, work on your software and try some honesty. Many professional composers have assistants who (gasp!) work in the same studio, on the same ip address ;) When professional user calls you out for not putting any time into reviewing or resolving a problem before sending a refund request, nobody’s being rude to you. Calm yourselves. Do your work. Tone policing, pointing fingers, and accusations, rather than develop, develop, and develop, is useless. Sad. Stay away folks. If I get a proper apology and they get their software working, perhaps I’ll update again. I don’t expect much at this point.

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