With several medical procedures and tests for both Roberta and me and a week-long visit from our son’s family who live in the south of England, it has been quite a month that has seen the usual blog date being considerably delayed; at least I made it before the end of the month.

From the music point of view, things have accordingly remained fairly static, although I have managed to get my hands on a few gems in the shape of plug-ins to add to my Christmas upgrade purchases of Cubase 14 Pro and Kontakt 8, as well as the synthesizer, Massive X. These more recent purchases have included another synthesizer, Serum 2, the EQ plug-in, FabFilter Pro-Q 4, as well as the long-awaited upgrade to the chord arranger plug-in, Scaler 3. All of these are upgrades which have been released recently although the Serum and FabFilter plug-ins are first time purchases for me. The things you can do with these software items are truly mindboggling.

With more medical tests in the offing, it may be mid-May before I start to reap the benefits of my new software; however I cannot wait to get started. My big drive will be the creation of new sounds which I hope will be original and exciting. I will also be using the ROLI Seaboard RISE 2 keyboard and Lightpad Block to include MPE in my creations. Health permitting, the future is indeed bright.

With all that’s been happening, this month’s blog is, of necessity, shorter than usual, but hopefully this will be a one-off.