Violently Happy To Be Infected!

[namnibor]

Hello! Have a bit of catching-up to do as military career and college made it pragmatic to put musician part of me on hold until presently. Am now 100% USAF Svc.-Connected Disabled Veteran at age of 49. Strong background as a cultural creative in having been very active in past with visual artwork/painting/mixed-media, as that was something could do prior to military engagement of the unjust kind. Although still have my art studio supplies, decided to engage in serious music playing as both therapeutic and few levels higher than a hobby. Also am a writer with subject at task on my rather unique military experience.
Have a decade of formal piano and as many with various reed instruments. Learned synthesis in 1982 on Korg MS-20, then only allowed myself luxury of polyphony once mastered and "moved-up" to an SCI Prophet year later. Have played in gigging cover bands but at this point in life am playing catch-up on mastering midi knowledge and am about finished in setting-up arsenal of home music studio. Was going to go the Pro Tools route but decided to start learning Reaper DAW instead partly because even though have a custom built seperate desktop pc for pro video and audio, AVID has unfortunately been elitist snobs when asking for tech support in that if they do not "approve" of one's PC config, absolutely no support. I like Cockos Reaper's Philosophy and quite helpful and friendly forum support.
Love all kinds of music, with my focus currently to be in some form of ambient-industrial-atmospherics. All is in flux as learning to navigate menus of various synths, capabilities, so focus can be on creativity rather than technical impasses.
Have an eclectic mix of great hardware synths, with heavy representation from German Waldorf and Access. Have had a Virus KB for almost a year and today my mint Virus KC arrived. I love professional musician forums as have learned ALOT from plethora of searches on all of them and decided was time to join infected for obvious reasons! Am not a snob towards vsti's but am a bit old school in prefering hardware. However, I DO prefer innovative instruments and the German's win hands-down for me without a doubt! Looking forward to learning much here and perhaps making some new friends as well.