[Timo]

Sorry to hear of the loss, Alex. Our last dog, George, a rescued Cairn Terrier had an incurable skin problem, the only thing that stopped him from constantly ripping his own hair out were steroids. Absolutely killed me to give them to him daily as it shortened his eye-sight and life by a few years, but his quality of life for the three years or so he was on the steroids was tenfold than without them. Was an absolute last resort, did everything else we could think and pay for to try and work out what the underlying problem was, including shed loads of allergy and blood tests, biopsies, etc.. Lived to 12yrs old, though, which wasn't too bad at all, considering.

After having and losing three rescue dogs over time, I've come to the feeling that we more like 'adopt' them for their almost brief existence, given that humans outlive them by considerable margins, and if we can give them a healthy quality of life while they're here, while enjoying their presence and having a good time with them, then that's all we can do!

Back on topic, my music making has kinda stalled at the mo, after not being able to find a 17" laptop with a TI firewire chipset (for my soundcard). Looks like I'll be building my own desktop system instead. Am still tweaking the Indigo v1 daily, though. I still love the Virus sound. Will likely be selling the Indigo and finally upgrading to a TI mk2 if/when it's released, that's if Access don't make a balls-up of it like they did the TI mk1.

The TI's been out a few years, now (unveiled three years ago at January 05 Namm, although didn't start shipping until about October(?) that year, ten months after people had pre-paid), and Access usually do one large software update per virus (this one being OS v2 and v2.5 for the current TI mk1), so the TI mk2 stands to come next... And Access usually showcase at the Winter Namm...