John Rofrano

Musician, Vocalist, Songwriter, Author, VASST Trainer, Videographer, Software Architect.

As a keyboard player, his early influences were musicians like Peter Nero, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith, and later Lee Michaels, Rick Wakeman, and Keith Emerson. He admires songwriters like Burton Cummings and Randy Newman for their unique songwriting styles, and bands like Yes, Genesis, ELP, and Gentle Giant for their musicianship and willingness to push the envelope of progressive rock. John spent 10 years back in the 70’s as a working rock musician paying his dues in nightclubs and studios the NY tri-state area. His interest in the early days of electronic music and MIDI programming ultimately lead to a career in the field of computer science. After discovering his new passion for videography in 2000, John has come full circle back to his roots of music composition and scoring music for video.  When not making music, editing video, or designing new software plug-ins, you can find John hanging out on the ACID and Vegas forums on the Digital Media Network site where he is a moderator for the Sony ACID and Vegas Scritping forum, and on the Sony Pictures Digital forums under the username JohnnyRoy.