Riffboard
Capture musical ideas as movable notation.
Riffboard is a desktop music workspace that turns short performances into movable notation cards called Rifflets.
How it works
Four words, one workspace
RiffCatch
Capture a short performance.
Rifflet
See the idea as notation and tablature.
Riffboard
Move, connect, and arrange musical thoughts.
Music View
Read and play selected Rifflets and sequences.
From instrument to readable music
- Instrument
- RiffCatch
- Transcription
- Rifflet
- Riffboard
- Music View
Point of view
Principles
- Capture before editing.
- The performance comes first. Refinement can wait.
- Audio is evidence.
- Every Rifflet keeps its recording as the record of what was played.
- Notation is the musical artifact.
- The card you keep and arrange is written music, not a waveform.
- Ideas are spatial.
- Musical thoughts live on a board, where placement carries meaning.
- Playback follows authored connections.
- Sequences play in the order you draw, not the order you recorded.
- Simplicity outranks completeness.
- Riffboard would rather do less, clearly.
Status
Where Riffboard is today
Working now
- Desktop application
- Microphone capture
- Standard notation
- Guitar tablature
- Movable Rifflets
- Spatial composition
- Connected playback
- Multiple Riffboards
Current focus
- Real-guitar calibration
- Music View
- Interaction refinement
- UI polish
Real-guitar transcription quality is still being tested.
Development journal
Recent Field Notes
Giving Riffboard a Home
Establishing a public product presence before release.
Separating Space from Playback
Magnetic adjacency and playback connections become independent product concepts.
Repairing Real Audio Capture
Moving RiffCatch from synthetic proof to a real microphone path.