Riffer Madness

Record, clip, arrange, and listen, with ease. Capture your instrument or voice as ideas come and explore how they fit together with an efficient tempo first approach to audio clipping, arranging, and low latency mixing. Practice a part with in earbud click and backing track options. Whistle a tune and loop it in any arrangement you want. When you're happy with the sound, export your creations through sharing.

Explore:
• Library: filter, sort, manage, share, and preview all your creations
• Recorder: capture audio while optional metronome clicks plus backing track play in headphones
• Editor: make Riffs - clip audio to exact beats
• Canvas: arrange Riffs and Arrangements over beat lines

Concepts:
• Audio: imported or recorded to be used in Riffs
• Riff: Clipped audio
• Arrangement: Musical slots arranged on a 10 minute canvas of beat lines (Arrangements can be nested within other Arrangements)
• Slot: either a Riff or a Arrangement
• Low Cut: removes low frequency noise that makes mixes muddy

Features:
• Low latency playback - preview anything you create, quickly
• Duplicate Riffs share a single audio source - make multiple Riffs from a single recording without storage penalties
• Tools for metadata management - use tags to stay organized
• Metronome clicks in headphones while recording - get your timing right
• Backing track in headphones while recording - follow an Arrangement or practice a song
• Auto level of recording gain by default, with a target of −23 LUFS
• Default recording low cut of 30 Hz


TOOLS

• Sort
• Audio filter
• Eye Button (context sensitive):
(No slots selected)
• Create Empty Arrangements
• Create Riffs
• Settings
• Support (can be disabled in iOS settings)
(One or more slots selected)
• Arrange: start a new Arrangement with the selected slot(s)
• Duplicate
• Share
• Tag
• Delete
• Arrangements filter
• FIlter

Recorder:
• Set BPM
• Toggle headphones
• Configure backing track with count-in and loop settings
• Record from bottom mic with no audio processing

Editor:
• Adjust Clip Boundaries
• Play
• Loop (toggle)
• Metronome (toggle): BPM can be changed in the Book tool
• Snap to Leading Beat (toggle): leading clip edge snaps to beat lines
• Snap to Trailing Beat (toggle): trailing clip edge snaps to beat lines
• Focus: zoom to the region of selected slots
• Adjust Gain and Low Cut
• Book: edit metadata: name, start, end, gain, low cut, BPM, color, and tags

Canvas:
• Rectangle Select (long hold on the Canvas will trigger it)
• Play
• Loop (toggle)
• Metronome (toggle): BPM can be changed in the Book tool
• Snap to Leading Beat (toggle): slots snap their leading edge to the nearest beat when dragged
• Snap to Trailing Beat (toggle): slots snap their trailing edge to the nearest beat when dragged
• Slot Tools:
• Group (toggle): treat selected slots as a single unit
• Tornado: arrange selected slots end to end
• Duplicate: copy selected slots and place copies
• Focus: zoom to the region of selected slots
• Delete: remove selected slots from the canvas
• Library: import Riffs and Arrangements
• Book: edit metadata: name, BPM, color, and tags


CONTACT

Questions or feedback? Please contact us at support@riffermadness.app.