Riff — Play in the margins

Riff / a desk instrument, no.01

You drum on your desk all day. We finally gave it an instrument.

Riff: a slim walnut tap-pad instrument clipped to the edge of a desk.

Riff clips to the edge of your desk and turns those idle taps into real music. Knock the right beat, and it fires a shortcut too.

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I The habit

You already do this. All day. Your fingers drum a rhythm on the desk while your brain works.

It is the most honest thing your hands do at work. So we asked one question: what if that little beat actually went somewhere?

II The idea

What if the tap had power?

Give that restless rhythm an output. Your workday gets a soundtrack, and the odd quiet superpower, without ever leaving the desk.

III Instrument

Tap. Pick a voice. Make something.

Four pads, any instrument. Drum between meetings, sketch a piano line, loop it, record it. Choose a voice below, then play the pads up top.

$Close crop of fingertips tapping the woven-textile pads on Riff's walnut body.$

IV The party trick

Knock the right beat. Your computer obeys.

Set a secret rhythm and Riff fires a shortcut. Wake the screen, start a timer, mute the call. It stays silent until you call it with a beat only you know.

Riff at dusk with one pad glowing as a beat triggers a shortcut.

V The object

Built to earn its spot on your desk.

Solid walnut, woven-textile pads, a clip that hides underneath. Calm while you work, alive the second you play it. Hover any frame to see it in colour.

Three-quarter hero view of the walnut Riff instrument.

Top-down view of Riff's four pads in the walnut body.

Clips on in a secondNo screws. Grips almost any desk edge.

Silent by defaultSound in your headphones, calm on your desk.

VI Why now

Get in while it is still being built.

Riff is heading to Kickstarter, and early backers decide if it gets made. Join now and you are not a customer waiting in line. You are a founding backer shaping the thing.

Day one

The waitlist gets first access and the best price

4 voices

Drums, piano, organ, guitar. More on the way

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First through the doorThe launch link hits your inbox before anyone else, while early-bird pricing lasts.
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A real sayVote on voices, colourways and the clip. Backers shape the final object.
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The honest buildReal progress from prototype to production, no hype, straight to your inbox.

VII Be first through the door

Get in before the first beat.

Join the waitlist for launch-day access and founding-backer pricing. No spam. Just the build, and the day it goes live.

You're in.

We'll send the launch link to your inbox first. Want to push us up the Kickstarter charts? Drag a friend in.

Riff. Play in the margins.