Riffer

The midi and transport functionalities are seriously flawed. Note tie and sustain do not function properly when used in conjunction with note probability. This could be a great app. I question the choice of making it AUv3 compatible before fixing these issues. Response to Developer: Thanks for the update. When Ableton link selected and Sync Start/Stop deselected, transport does not begin on step one. Midi Import selections do not stay deselected. Impossible to deselect all choices for no midi input. Would be nice to have more real estate in the UI for that. Update: Just tested latest version. I see now that volumes of ghosted notes (greyed out) must be changed manually in order for them to be filtered from the output. Can that be implemented programatically?

There are a lot of unfair reviews on this app from people that don’t understand its basic functions. It send midi riffs to other apps and it does that exceedingly well. Basically, it will create sequences of music that you can have a hand in the direction the sounds take shape. Most generative apps like this sound robotic and uninspired, but after weeks with this one know it’s a front page of the iPad app. Cheers devs, curious to see where you take this.

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Really wanted to like this app -so disappointed. First, there has been no attempt at all to make this usable with an iPhone screen size. The font size is nearly microscopic on my 8 plus. However, I was willing to live with this once I learned by trial and error where things were and accepted that it would take multiple taps to actually hit my tiny targets. Once I was able to use the app I got many great results and song ideas. Saved them and when reloaded found the patterns were replaced by a single repeating note. Came back a day later and found all my saves were totally gone. Completely useless.

I just purchased Riffer earlier today and I’m really getting some good stuff out of it. Auv3 is great for using multiple instances. If you are looking for some generated monophonic midi I highly recommend this app, I really like generating something then editing it to make it my own. Some of the reviews originally scared me away but after a couple updates I finally decided to purchase, and I’m so glad I did. Great app!

Gives you all the utilities necessary to conjure up some quick notes within a key. It’s great that you can guide it to be more or less dense. Have infinite regeneration, have a lot of options for the ‘spread’ of notes and a few other things. If I have a pattern I already like (this is monophonic btw) I can easily edit notes to get it to taste and it has quick access to transposing by octave. When I first used this I was a bit aggravated by its messy behavior when trying to adjust parameters while it is in playback. But for the most part this is just a result of me ‘using it wrong’. When used with a little forethought and purpose it is a great utility to have in hand, fun in fact.