Capture
Catch the idea while you are playing.
During RiffCatch, every 4 or 8 bars automatically becomes a new Rifflet. Keep playing — Riffboard divides the performance into movable musical pieces.
When the idea arrives
Capture it before it disappears.
Riffboard turns a short performance into movable musical ideas you can arrange, connect, read, and continue elsewhere.
A musical whiteboard for capturing ideas.
The problem
Ideas disappear while software gets ready.
Opening a recorder, configuring tracks, or preparing a notation editor takes just long enough for a phrase to slip away. Riffboard is built for that moment — capture first, decide later.
How simple it is
Catching a riff is simpler than it looks.
Connect your instrument through an audio interface, open Riffboard, and press RiffCatch. Play naturally — moments later your performance becomes organized musical ideas called Rifflets you can read, arrange, and keep developing.
- Connect your instrument through an audio interface.
- Open Riffboard.
- Press RiffCatch.
- Play naturally.
- Seconds later, your take becomes ideas you can read and arrange.
What you get
A performance becomes notation you can work with.
Each take lands as a short musical piece with notation, tablature, and the original audio. Move Rifflets on the board, connect them into a sequence, and open them as continuous readable music.
Product walkthrough
Capture. Understand. Continue.
Understand
A short performance becomes readable music.
Each Rifflet shows notation and tablature alongside the source audio. Transcription is an interpretation of the performance, not a claim of perfection.
Arrange
Move, connect, and reorder musical ideas spatially.
Connecting Rifflets defines the musical sequence. Recording order does not. Visual position alone does not decide what plays next.
Read
Open a Rifflet or sequence in Music View.
Music View opens one or more Rifflets as continuous readable notation and tablature.
Status
Where's Riffboard today?
Riffboard is in active alpha development.
Current work is focused on improving transcription engine quality, capture reliability, and interaction refinement.
Working features:
- Desktop application
- Audio interface capture
- Microphone capture
- Standard notation
- Guitar tablature
- Movable Rifflets
- Spatial composition
- Connected playback
- Music View
- Printing
- Multiple Riffboards
- Export MusicXML (.mxl) or standard MusicXML (.musicxml)
Current focus:
- Transcription engine quality
- Capture reliability
- Interaction refinement
- Export quality refinement
Download
Interested in testing Riffboard?
Riffboard is available free for Windows through the Microsoft Store.
Development journal
Recent Field Notes
Riffboard Is Here
Riffboard is available free for Windows through the Microsoft Store.
Giving Riffboard a Home
Establishing a public product presence before release.
From Music Whiteboard to Riffboard
Naming the product, its capture mode, and its musical objects.