Does riffworks have any endorsers?

[beauzeau]

Just wondering if any big names in the business officially "endorse" Riffworks. Unofficially? I haven't bought a guitar mag in years so I wouldn't know. I just know that as soon as a big name posts a collaboration on rifflink and it gets coverage in a mag, the roof will be blown off!

Actually, is sonoma publicly traded? Do they plan to be? If so, how do I get in on it?

[dug]

Our target with the program is the "rest of us" non-pro people. That's not to say that you can't make a pretty bad ass album with it. But if you're mega-money dude with sweet mics, recording gear, and the time to use it all to it's potential... Anyway, you get the idea. Of course we'd love to have someone like that. We've got celebrity drummers now with the Submersible content.

So far it's just us. No investors. Definitely not publicly traded. We do this because we love it, and hopefully it pays the bills so we can keep doing it.

dug

[Timejunkie]

beauzeau,

I am making a CD completely with RW and the results IMHO are very good. I'm using decent mics (not expensive by any means) and my GP for everything.

You can check out MP3's of my stuff at www.chipgallmusic.com
These are not the final "masters" but you get the idea.

Unless the listener has a trained ear they would never know how this was recorded.

Cheers,
Chip

[pbbobkanobi]

Hey I am Google famous (top 3 on the page baby!!!) and I endorse RiffWorks and the Sonoma Team all the way!!!! Mmwwwwhhhhuuuuaaaaaa!!

[camaro24gold]

Hey Dug,

Ha...God bless you guys.
I started with the RiffWorks last August I believe it was. I hadn't been able ta play guitar for 2 years due to an auto accident.
Anyway.....when I got to be able to pick up a bit I was looking for an amp sim for my computer and I just knew Line6 was suppose to be into that from before. (I was a bit out of the loop after 2 years)
So...that's how I hooked up with you guys.
I think you have done an impressive job at what you set out to do and that was devise a program that made recording inspirational.
I was very impressed at the get go......I am still learning 1.1 really.

And ya be happy to know that as I type ( and even though L6 owes me a free upgrade)...I am downloading Standard as I speak.
I have become a Line 6 fan...even with some of the short comings they have...it is a great product for ME....not evryone I understand. And I also am an equally addicted fan of Sonnoma Wireworks......RiffWorks.....and this board.

Thanks Sonnoma and all those who share their hearts and knowledge here.

[beauzeau]

Dug,

I'm hip. I have no doubts that you can make a bas-ass recording with this software. I've heard dozens of them. All I'm saying is that, well, having been in the guitar market for several years (I've sold a unique guitar product online off and on for the last ten years or so) I know that a BIG chunk of the market lies with the 'newbies'.

Let's face it, if most of us veterans would have had something like riffworks available to us for a couple hundred bucks a decade ago, our wives would have been leaving us left and right. The kids these days are getting numb to it. This sort of thing has always at least been on the horizon for them. They've never had to drool over a tascam 8 track reel to reel thinking "oh man, I could ping pong that into twenty tracks at least"!

I just think that if sonoma were to actively seek out a guitar player who is familiar to all the kids from all the guitar mags and get him to do a collaboration thing via rifflink, well, the kids would go crazy for it and, depending on who it is, so would I! What? Pete Townsend put together a collaboration project and there's a contest going on to see who can fill it out the best? I know I won't win, but count me in! Yeah, I know he'll probably never actually HEAR my version, but still, being able to say "Yeah, this is me on a Townsend project" would be worth the price of the software, even if it sucked (which is doesn't).

You guys are on the right track with the Bozzio thing and whatnot. Well, submersible is. You guys could do the exact same thing, but with some guitar players and rifflink.

There's simply no doubt in my mind that THIS is where home recording is heading. We've all wanted online jamming in real time, but I think we all know that's simply not going to happen anytime real soon. Not until technology catches up enough to allow it, and last I checked with the exception of a couple of interesting "not quite real time" things out there, that's not going to be for quite a while. So the next best thing is an online repository so to speak of collaborations that anyone can just jump in on and wail away. That being said, Sonoma must protect their offering at all costs from the competition (which, within the next year or two will likely be showing up around every corner). To me, the best way for Sonoma to do this is to go ahead and establish themselves in a big way, right away, as the first and the best. Promotions like the "Jam with Joe" riffrumble contest are going to be what solidifies Sonoma in that regard. Just my opinion.

But I don't want to sound like I'm trying to help Sonoma. I just want to jam with Joe!

Beau

[dug]

LOL. Would that be Joe Walsh? Joe Satriani? Help me out here so I can be sure to make you happy:)

We have grand plans for RiffLink over the coming months. We're definitely thinking about these ideas. We're pretty sure it's gonna be really cool.

thanks!
dug

[beauzeau]

Haha! Either one! Walsh or Satch. If I jam with Satch, I get to be amazed, and if I jam with Walsh, I get to be amuzed (as long as he does the vocals I mean). It works either way for me.

Actually, I saw them jam together once many moons ago. It was a payperview concert from maybe 90 or 91 that took place somewhere in spain (Seville I think). I anted up the thirty bucks or so to watch it (I was young) and it wasn't bad. It DID culminate with a huge jam session that included Vai, Satch, Walsh, Brian May, John Lee Hooker, and several others. Vai, Satch, and May did Tie Your Mother Down. And at the end when they were all jamming, they ended up doing a couple more Queen tunes. I thought I'd see Eddie, what with his previous relationship with May, but no......

To me, rifflink is what currently sets somona apart from other software makers. This could just be me not knowing what's out there of course. But as far as I know, you guys are the only ones doing the rifflink thing (short of people just sharing their pro tools session files or something). It is the MAIN reason I bought the new version. To be honest, I probably would not have gone the route of the upgrade if it didn't include the rifflink capability. I know it's got lots more features (the vst thing is really nice), but I already have my tones crafted with the xt live, and it worked just fine for me as it was. But the possibilities that are there with rifflink, that's just too much to pass up on.

Now if I could only get it to work!

Beau

[havoc51]

Same with me. www.havoc51.com has my new CD recorded entirely with RW1.

Dug, check out the tips & tricks page on the website, there's a hotlink back to RW products page on this site.

[mickeymix]

cool stuff Hav51......

[Gerry]

Hey Beauz..

I think I have that concert on a VHS tape .. I think Nuno was in there somewhere too.

[beauzeau]

I ended up going to look it up online. I found it. It was from 91-92 and it was called the "guitar legends" show. It had many names in it. And yes, actually Nuno was there. He did a duet with Gary Cherone (big surprise there huh, bet ya can't guess what tune.......). I'll give you a hint, it should be the poster child for the last hurrah of glamband ballads....

[mickeymix]

uuuuuuuuuugghhhhhhh Don't tell me more then words!!!

[Gerry]

Yeah... it was More Than Words..

.. but most guitarists that have Extreme's discs listen to the tunes and hear nothing but Nuno's vamping, chugga-chugs and squeals and noodling and smile a little every now and again..

[ShredRex]

I love that song............and I still find it hard to pick up an acoustic and not play it......I must be one of the few that weren't forever turned of it after the radio play killed it......LOL