Thought I would add a blog to the site mostly to keep a running history of what I am doing musically.
I’ve been slowly changing over to software synths after 15 years of hardware. Today Novamusik is sending out my copy of Waldorf Largo, which I have been eagerly awaiting for the past few months. While on the Novamusik site I saw that they had the Native Instruments Komplete Synth collection (FM8, Pro-53, Massive, & Absynth) on clearance for $188, so it is on the way as well. 
In recent months the hardware synths have had all kinds of problems… the Alesis Ion failed, it won’t power on anymore, the Mopho sends out random midi volume messages. I still love the Access Virus TI… wonderful hybrid of hardware and software.