Hey YC!

We’re Adith and Kenny — the founders of Riff!

TL;DR

Riff is a music editor with superpowers where experienced producers can be 10x more productive and hobbyists can delight in making music without needing technical chops.

https://youtu.be/bjyjtr8-yz8

Problem

Slow

🖥️ ❌ Legacy music production software is clunky and weighed down by archaic UX.

Repetitive

🎧 ❌ Musicians sometimes spend hours making changes that should realistically happen in minutes. With legacy software, there is no high-signal way of getting your creativity down.

High skill barrier

🎸❌ The difficulty of existing tools blocks people with musical interest but no patience to learn complex audio engineering.

Solution

Riff is an AI music editor meant to make music creation easier, yet still keeps the artist in charge.

🤘 Add sounds in your style directly into the editor using AI

🎵 Arrange sounds with AI

Team

Adith and Kenny met at Berkeley through a music collective they started (now 1200+ artists large).

🎹 Adith has been making music for ~5 years, has 1M+ streams on Spotify, and is deep into audio AI.

🥁 Kenny has been making music for ~8 years, Ex-Tencent Ex-Amazon, and releases frequently on Spotify.

Who’s it for?

In the short run, we’re targeting aspiring musicians who are between entry level music software like GarageBand and BandLab. Very soon, we’ll have enough features that we can directly compete with FL/Ableton/Logic/Pro Tools and get experienced producers onboard.

Our Asks

If you answer yes to any of these questions, would be great if you can share this post with your network:

• Do you know someone who has always wanted to make music but finds the tools too hard?
• Do you know professional artists who can sing/play instruments but do not know digital music production?

You can reach out to us here: founders@goriff.com or 610-762-5102

Thanks for your time everyone!

Best,

Adith and Kenny