hey, i'm hourglass (richard to my friends
) and i live in basingstoke and work in reading.
as i mentioned in the introductions thread, i'm a recovering cubase user who writes music at two opposite ends of the spectrum - metal and acoustic electronica.
i'm also part of a mainly-reading-based-but-really-national-and-international-collective (we've got a sister project in germany, and we're only "reading based" because two of the three founding members live there) of independent (unsigned) electronic musos, called doubledotdash!? (
www.doubledotdash.org, free songs etc.) one of the other members, amether, actually converted me to REAPER and i think he posts around here too.