Todd Rundgren Arena Recorded with RiffWorks

Todd Rundgren interview at South by Southwest in 2009 about how he recorded his latest album "Arena" using RiffWorks and Reason.

"I found a program called RiffWorks that allowed me to connect through ReWire to Reason. I could set up a loop and grab takes, then continually loop over that section until I was satisfied. Id export the takes that I wanted and clean them up in Audacity. I discovered I had a lot of flexibility with this system that would have been much more difficult in ProTools. Using RiffWorks was a fairly easy and straightforward way to get things done. Since then Ive had interaction with Sonoma Wire Works, the developers of RiffWorks, and Ive given them some feedback. They were incredibly receptive [and have since upgraded RiffWorks based on those suggestions]. While I havent had a project come up since then, Im anxious to get back and see what changes have happened in the program, probably all of which will make the job more streamlined. The one advantage of , I was able to carry my production set up wherever I wanted - my studio, hotel room and even on a plane. It was quite an interesting discovery for me and one I wish to exploit more in the future. If you want to hear the result, look for the album Arena."

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[PhotoBartVersteeg]

great vid! Thanks.

[sonomawireworks]

@PhotoBartVersteeg Thanks for checking it out! :) Hope you give RIffWorks a spin :)

[nonnikat]

For some reason, Todd's speaking voice is very comforting. Also, Arena kicks ass, go buy it if you haven't yet.

[toddrunt]

OMG! One smart Cat. that there is enough to shames the rock and roll hall of crap........ period!

[jbs428]

Thanks to Sonoma and of course TODD. To those of us who have seen him and have never been the same since, this sort of access and insight from him is sweet music.

[stevehauk]

Write more songs like "sweet" Todd. The truth is more powerful than you or me!

[JeffWeavil]

Words of Wisdom from Da Man!

THANKS

[rei14pedro]

wow very cool! You are my hero!

[tomhwoods]

Hey

Todd

you still d'man! Not enough people realise what you've pointed us to. Thank you. Love your work. It's about the ideas and it's still all so new...

Don't give up yet... Our dream lives on forever.......

[NicleT]

Propellerheads' Record application is now the solution for this. I had the same problem this winter and fortunately, Record was released. I upgraded and voilà ! Very, very intuitive à la Reason combining audio recording and editing. Love it. (BTW, I'm a composer, not a Propellerheads rep or seller of any kind - just sharing).

[Zieglers88]

Sweet! love RiffWorks!