riffle - An infinite, collaborative playground for music creation
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Riffle is an infinite, collaborative ecosystem for music creation, where every idea has the space and support it needs to find its shape.
Cook up a riff, add your friends and collaborators to it, and build it out with sample packs, instruments, audio, and some help with the resident sous chef who can create, analyze, critique, and guide you. Go make some noise.
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‘sup. i’m deo - one of the founders of riffle.
i’ve been making music my whole life and i’m telling you man, we’ve lost the plot.
me and my co-founder suffered for years under the tyranny of tools built by engineers for engineers, not for the kid who plays three instruments by ear and freezes the second he opens a DAW, not for the singer with a hundred melodies in her head and zero finished songs, not for any of us who just had music in us and wanted it out.
the problem nobody solved
there has never been a consumer-grade music creation tool built for people who are actually musical. DAWs are powerful, sure, but they hand you a cockpit when all you wanted was to play. and then text-to-music AI companies show up and go even further the wrong direction and take the wheel completely. from a text prompt they generate statistically average songs trained on billions of hours of human expression that contains exactly zero percent of you or your weird taste, your specific sadness, or your particular joy - the irreplaceable things.
we’re anti-slop. we believe in authorship. we believe music is the rawest, most ancient, most communal act of human expression. it’s always lived in people first and tools second, and somewhere in the last few decades that got inverted. we just want to flip it back.
riffle is the playground we always needed
riffle is a playground. an ecosystem for music creation on the web - sounds, samples, instruments, simple tools, real-time collaboration, and the right amount of AI acting as a sous-chef in the background - it's brilliant and present and knows exactly when to step in and when to disappear - so that you can stay in flow state, that gorgeous messy magical state where the idea is still hot and alive and you’re not stopping to learn something, you’re just making.
this is early. genuinely, honestly, gloriously early. bugs exist, there are missing pieces, stuff we haven’t figured out yet. but it’s the first version of something we’ve genuinely needed for a long time. so use it. break it. send it to a musical friend who's sitting on a hundred ideas.
go play today: https://app.riffle.studio/
@deoeven Hi. Can multiple people really jam together live without lag, or does it get messy?
My new night-time routine is to get off doomscrolling and finish my track on Riffle. What a time to be alive!
@deoeven Excited to see you guys finally launch. Been having fun creating music on Riffle over the last few days.
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I love music and I play guitar myself. It's fun to come up with new stuff, but you made it even more fun to collaborate with others. Creating music together is 10x better.
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@rob_vb come let's make a board together!
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@an5rag count me in!
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yooo, the other founder here.
building riffle has been quite the journey. like @deoeven mentioned, we wouldn't be doing this if we weren't solving our own problems in creating, sharing, and collaborating with others.
if any of y'all wants to make some sick beats together, comment/dm! can't wait to see what y'all make.
@deoeven @an5rag been using riffle for the past hour. ITS AWESOME GUYS
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@an5rag @sanket_bajaj share your board bro
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we're launching more features as we speak!
figma-like comments on boards
sous chef should be able to be able to diagnose musical/mixing errors on your tracks
you'll be able to merge stacks vertically
an onboarding experience
I absolutely love this as someone who has slowly been getting into music creation myself
I love how accessible the whole app is. It feels like Figma but for music creation, and I love that!
The only thing that I had an issue with was that there seems to be a bit of a lag whenever I add an instrument to the space in terms of the playback speed. But other than that, this app seems very solid. I really love the experience, everything down to the landing page. It's truly an amazingly immersive experience.
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@itskarelleh thanks for the praise @itskarelleh! We're working on performance on the daily - will def try to look into your session to spot what was up. Please keep the feedback coming :)
Wow riffle, I love music! This app is amazing i am super novice about music , I love music but I never learned how to make music with AI tools. There was AI chatbot how to make each stack connected to one another, but it was hard to understand. If there is more specific guideline or music words that I have to know before making then it will be more better! I don't know even what is 'bars' is, so okay I was like 4bars hmm, what is different between 2bars, Auto, 8bars etc. However it was fun and fresh experience how to play with music for super beginners in music! Great work!
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@jihwankim55 made our day Jihwan! We're making a bunch of onboarding experiences + help sections for exactly this. Keep an eye out and continue to make music!
@an5rag Nice Anurag, I will use it more often when I feel moody, it was really fun to make song with your app! Great work!
this is so sick, ive watched so many beat making videos and this is the first time it felt doable myself, so excited for more!
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@vamsi_vadlamani ayeee love it. share your board w me, would love to listen! anurag@riffle.studio
Am a fan of the seventy’s music scene—now looking to create some of that myself. The first attempt itself was super cool.
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@samir_deokuliar love that!
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Making music has always been a solo thing for me. The idea of jamming in a browser with friends in real time is genuinely exciting. Congrats.
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@kailesk_khumar thanks man. did you manage to make something?
Curious to see what others are creating. Is there a way for me to explore tracks created by other users?
@kevin yesss, was wondering this too! Would love too see other people’s tracks :)