Riffer Madness vs ARPJAM Studio

Capture your instrument or voice as ideas come and explore how they fit together with an efficient tempo based approach. Record, clip, arrange, and listen, with ease. Explore: • Library: import, filter, sort, manage, share, and preview all your creations • Recorder: capture unprocessed audio from the bottom mic while metronome clicks play in headphones • Editor: clip audio to make Riffs • Canvas: arrange Riffs and Arrangements over beat lines Concepts: • Audio: imported or recorded to be used in Riffs • Riff: clipped audio • Madness: the Lovecraftian kind • Arrangement: musical slots arranged on a 10 minute canvas of beat lines (Arrangements can also be nested within other Arrangements) • Slot: either a Riff or an Arrangement • Low Cut: removes low frequency noise that makes mixes muddy, also know as a high pass filter • BPM: beats per minute, the tempo Features: • Low latency playback - preview anything you create, quickly • 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 • Configurable theme colors • Siri AI controls for hands free jamming and practicing: + "Record with Riffer Madness" (Siri asks "What BPM?", then opens the app and records) + "Tag Audio in Riffer Madness" (Siri asks "With what tags?", then adds them to the latest created audio) TOOLS Library: • Sort • Audio filter • Eye Button (context sensitive): - (No slots selected) + Create Empty Arrangements + Create Riffs + 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.

No sequences. No loops. A generative synth that plays on by your rules. And you can play right along. Key, scale, density, complexity — just set the rules, and five machines (arpeggios, bass, drums and a sampler) keep playing, with a different phrase every time. What you shape is not a song — it is a way of sounding. No AI picks the notes: your rules and probability do. Move a slider and the sound changes shape without ever stopping. Density, contour, filter, tape movement. It is built so that nothing you touch can break it. Then play right along with your own fingers. The on-screen key pad holds only the notes of the current scale, so nothing goes off-key. Play ARP A, ARP B, BASS or DRUMS, or connect a MIDI keyboard. What you play can be captured into the looper. ■ Five machines • ARP A / ARP B — two independent arpeggio engines. Ten arpeggio types, including Phrase (builds melodies) and Fingerpick (fingerstyle guitar) • BASS — a dedicated bass engine (STEP / COMPLEXITY / OMIT / PATTERN) • DRUMS — a drum machine built from probabilities (KICK / SNARE / HIHAT / NOISE) • SAMPLE — record one bar, slice it, rearrange it • Chord progressions (presets / automatic / 16 custom slots), ten time signatures, six LFOs ■ Slice (SAMPLE) • Record one bar from a mic or line input, with count-in and click • Record the app itself (ARP A / ARP B / drums), and overdub onto it • Load audio files — and the audio from a video file • Up to 64 slices, ordered by the same rules as the arps: direction, reverse, octave, probability, groove • STRETCH (on by default) — change tempo without changing pitch • Its own filter, envelope and delay / reverb sends ■ Play • On-screen key pad — always in scale; play ARP A, ARP B, BASS or DRUMS • PEDAL (sustain) and a one-bar looper that records how hard you played and transposes with the chords • MIDI keyboard input (ARP A / ARP B / BASS; damper pedal, pitch bend, standard control changes) • XY pad and performance FX that work only while held ■ Sound (11 voices) • Piano — three velocity layers, stereo, damper release • Electric piano — harmonics shift with how hard you strike • Nylon-string guitar — synthesised with a physical string model • Marimba, kalimba, handpan and chime — struck instruments, measured from the real ones and synthesised • Waveforms (sine / triangle / saw / square) plus an acid filter • Filter, ADSR, five drive types, tremolo — shaped per voice • Delay, reverb, Glitch, Granular • DRIFT / FLUTTER — tape movement on the synth voices and the live input alike • Concert pitch A=415–444 Hz ■ Connect • AUv3 plug-in — as an instrument and as an effect • Ableton Link, MIDI Clock, MIDI out (ARP A / ARP B / BASS / DRUMS), LFOs and XY as MIDI CC • External audio input (line / microphone) • Background playback — keeps playing when you switch to another app (iPhone / iPad) • WAV recording and export One-time purchase. No subscription.