Riffer

It’s a nice idea but as it is now, the app is very limited. You could spend an hour just randomly generating ‘riffs’ until you get something worthwhile, and the results are not very musical. Literally just random notes in your chosen scale. Doing it yourself at a keyboard is quicker and more satisfying. With (a lot of) improvements this could go somewhere but for now it’s too limited, even if it were free.

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.

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^^

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.