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Sonoma Wire Works is a company, based in Los Altos, California and incorporated in 2003, that develops audio software.
Sonoma Wire Works began in an outbuilding in Sonoma County, California. Three audio engineers (Doug Wright, Daniel Walton, and David Tremblay), who worked in the audio industry for over 20 years combined, wanted to create an easy and fun recording application for guitarists. The result of their work is RiffWorks guitar recording software with built-in InstantDrummer, effects, online collaboration, song posting, and more. Hayden Bursk has joined the development team after graduating from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. RiffWorks development has continued with additional features being added, the launch of RiffWorks T4 free recording software, and the new RiffWorld.com online community for RiffWorks users.
In 2004, Sonoma Wire Works launched their first product, RiffWorks recording software for Mac and Windows, which is designed for use by guitar players. Over the next few years, RiffLink online music collaboration was built into RiffWorks, and song posting to Sonoma Wire Works' RiffWorld.com online community was added. In addition, over 100 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Sessions were launched.
In 2008, Sonoma Wire Works become an iPhone application development company with the launch of the FourTrack multitrack recorder for musicians who want to capture musical ideas and record songs on their iPhone.
In 2009, Sonoma Wire Works acquired software and drum content from Submersible Music and Discrete Drums including DrumCore, a plug-in drum instrument (VSTi/RTAS/AU) with stereo audio loops and MIDI recordings of well-known drummers; KitCore, a plug-in based on the MIDI drum instrument in DrumCore; and the Discrete Drums multitrack recording libraries.
In 2010, Sonoma Wire Works developed the StudioTrack audio recorder for the iPad, and the GuitarJack audio device for FourTrack and other compatible iPhone apps.
References [link]
- Create Digital Music - Music Player Live Reviewed; RiffWorks Software Perfect for Writing Songs
- Music Tech Magazine Issue 45 review of RiffWorks Standard 2 by Mike Miller
- Sonoma Wire Works RiffWorks Standard v2 - Rated 9 out of 10 and Won Performance and Innovation Awards by Computer Music Magazine October 2006
- Make your own kind of music on these Web sites by Eric Gwinn of The Chicago Tribune
- Music Goes 2.0 by Lawrence Chen on Wikinomics
- Wired.com - The New Hotness: FourTrack Audio Recorder for iPhone, iPod Touch
- The Beat Goes On For Another Paul Allen Accidental Business by Ty McMahan on The Wall Street Journal Blog
- iPad Apps: Creativity unleashed by Paul Miller of Engadget.com
- GuitarJack puts studio in your pocket by Donald Bell of CNET.com
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Sonoma_Wire_Works
Filigree
Filigree (also less commonly spelled filagree, and formerly written filigrann or filigrene) is a delicate kind of jewellery metalwork, usually of gold and silver, made with tiny beads or twisted threads, or both in combination, soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs. It often suggests lace and remains popular in Indian and other Asian metalwork. It was popular as well in Italian and French metalwork from 1660 to the late 19th century. It should not be confused with ajoure jewellery work, the ajoure technique consisting of drilling holes in objects made of sheet metal.
The English word filigree is shortened from the earlier use of filigreen which derives from Latin "filum" meaning thread and "granum" grain, in the sense of small bead. The Latin words gave filigrana in Italian which itself became filigrane in 17th-century French.
History
Though filigree has become a special branch of jewellery in modern times, it was historically part of the ordinary work of the jeweler. Indeed, all the jewelry of the Etruscans and Greeks (other than that intended for the grave, and therefore of an unsubstantial character) was made by soldering together and so building up the gold rather than by chiselling or engraving the material.
