Ha! Thanks guys! I appreciate the thoughts and kind words and have always considered all of you and many others here friends. I have definitely made a few good friends here on the forum (shared personal emails, music, ideas, even phone calls and so on) even though I've not met any of you in person. Yes, there's a lot of folks we used to see here all the time that you don't hear much if anything from anymore, so it does make you wonder if they're still around or perhaps just hanging out in the shadows for now. The forum for me as of late has been a bit on the sleepy side in comparison to the good old days when everyone was posting something new daily, and again for me there's just not been a whole lot to comment on as of late or new things to share I've come up with. I purchased my last instrument well over a year ago (Armley Schulze) and have been very satisfied with both the instruments and the setup I have, so have kind of left things alone other than playing. I had been planning to share info on my latest audio layout and newly 'modified' audio routing scheme (sounds really good), but it seems everyone is doing something different, and unless their set up is similar to mine, I don't know how much help it would be.
I also think at this point that many are perhaps waiting on the latest version of Hauptwerk to come out which certainly has been talked about for a long time, and until it does maybe many like me don't have much new to say here on the forum, but will jump back in when it does happen. Even our leaders here (Brett and Martin) have been curiously quiet as of late, we haven't heard from Martin in over a year, so it does make you wonder what exactly is going on. Without much of anything new from them, updates, what's coming, what's planned and so on, there isn't a whole lot to grab on to and talk about I guess.
In any case, thanks again, glad to see the 'core group' is for the most part still here, and also glad to see new members coming on board and getting involved. We all share a common and great passion for the pipe organ and it's many forms of music!
Marc