Riff bot draws from a long legacy of chance operations in composition, most notably John Cage's Music of Changes and compositions with dice. Initially Riff Bot began as a simple procedural program that I wrote to freshen up on my C++. The program would prompt the user to choose a musical scale and would then generate a set of 16 notes at random in sequential order. This got me thinking about the possibility of a device that could further automate this process within a modern DAW. What started as a fancy random number generator soon morphed into a parametric non-linear sequencing device capable of syncing via MIDI and generating new melodic material at the press of a button. I soon found myself on a journey to distill the core musical parameters of a melody, adding one knob at a time and defining the instrument as I went. The Riff Bot is the culmination of this journey and represents months of testing, tweaking, coding and jamming! I hope that it will bring to others the same pseudo-collaborative playfulness that I have experienced with the device myself.