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How Riffer works
For contemporary music producers creating electronic-based music within a DAW, it's very likely that you've come face-to-face with a digital piano roll. Consisting of every note throughout the full range of piano notes available, this is where you will create MIDI notes to trigger your virtual instruments, creating everything from the melodic elements of harmony and bass and even rhythmic instruments such as drums or percussion.
Every new session will result in a blank piano roll that can be extremely difficult to draw inspiration from. This is where Riffer can transform your production workflow to bring you out of a creative rut using advanced sequencing to craft unexpected, unique and exciting melodic phrases.
Riffer generates a randomised MIDI sequence using a traditional piano-roll style editor and combines pitch, duration, velocity and density for each note in your sequence. Select from two to 64 steps in your sequence and chose how many notes are within your defined space as well as controlling which octave range your notes will lie between and then let Riffer fill in the blanks! Don't get stuck endlessly writing melodies that just don't work within your music, instead, let Riffer take the building blocks of your ideas and run with them, creating phrases that you may never have thought to try that just might fit with what you're trying to achieve in your music. Once you've heard something that catches your ear, save and export your sequence to be used in future projects!
Not limited to triggering your virtual instruments, Riffer has expanded MIDI capability that lets you send MIDI signals out into almost any MIDI-enabled instrument. Whether you're sending your MIDI to another software instrument or even a hardware instrument, the advanced CC and mapping options mean you can integrate Riffer into any setup to get a flexible hybrid of analog tones with digital sequencing.
Fine-tune your riffs
Let Riffer take the wheel or grab your hand on the controls and adjust parameters yourself. The notes themselves are randomized in pitch, duration, and velocity or you can take control of these and set the parameter ranges for each to set more strict boundaries that will help Riffer to create a sequence more controlled to your settings. Set Riffer to one of the 54 included scales (Eastern and Western scales included) and lock them to ensure that your melody will remain the same whilst the rhythmic pattern changes with each step in your sequence. You can even sustain notes that ring across every step in your sequence for 'drone' notes that set the tone and mood for your melody or bass line.
For a more dynamic and fluid feel to your sequences, Riffer offers a humanisation control that can add shuffle and swing in your melodies or take it one step further and activate the Shift function to push notes off the grid for a less quantised feel. For musicians looking to capture contemporary hip-hop grooves with an off-beat feel and swing, Riffer can help you achieve this seamlessly.
Reviews
"Riffer will pull you back from the creative brink; it will enliven your bottom end; it will pull melodies out of the ether and step-sequence a smile across your face." - Sound on Sound
Features
- Get out of a creative rut and explore randomly generated riffs
- Sync to your host tempo and never miss a beat
- 53 scales included from Western to Eastern
- Save and create your own scales
- Customise the number of notes in your riff
- Flexible control over the pattern, pitch, duration and volume per note
- Sustain notes
- Lock individual Notes or whole Steps
- Export your MIDI patterns for use in other projects quickly and easily
- Transpose your whole riff pattern up or down seamlessly
- Quickload presets section
- Shuffle and shift mode
- Advanced infinity mode
- Customize range for pitch duration and velocity
- Save your patterns to be loaded in future projects
- MIDI compatible to trigger external devices with advanced CC and mapping
Specifications
- Operating systems:
- Mac: OS X 10.12 or higher
- Windows: 7 or higher
- Hard disk space: At least 50 MB of free drive space
- Product code: 1161-32