Rick Reifenstein

Winter is planning it last hoorah last night and today here in Virginia. Snow and ice are expected. I was planning on staying home today anyway. Staying home and enjoying a 3 day weekend with the wife and kids as well as some time in the studio/office will nice. I had a late night session last night til around 2 am. Finished up "Reflections of the Soul". I was having a real tough time finding the right synths and the right sounds, but was able to settle on something deep in folders of Kontakt. I also had some success with a little known simple but spot on synth called A Synth. Ran A Synth through Guitar Rig on the "Tomita Rig" patch I wrote which worked very well. I'm gonna have to remember that. There is a lot of my time that is being scheduled for non-music projects in the coming spring. My work at the University of Virginia, Harrison Institute will be keeping me busy in the worlds audio/video engineering, and interactive software development. My hope is t...

Today was the first day back at the University after having 14 days off. I wasn't planning on 14 days but with the big snow fall we got in Virginia, I was snowed in for 2 of those days. Of course while everyone in my office was at home; as geeks we checked email, read forums, followed blogs and checked twitter feeds dealing with the latest IT news. So it's not so strange that most of our discussions were about ubiquitous computing, smart homes, tablets, Microsoft Surface and Microsoft's Natal Project. Heck even my meetings today with my supervisors were about Surface and Interactive Computing. Building mobile phone apps has also been put on to my todo list for the new year. All the while visions of the latest Richard K. Morgan novel I'm reading is dancing in my head. In the studio we're still in set up and bug squashing mode. I set up the Juno 106 up and ran it through Guitar Rig3. Only trouble is that the synth is dieing a slow and ugly death. Lot's of digital ...