{"id":143,"date":"2022-10-09T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maddox.pro\/?p=143"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:51:12","slug":"the-future-of-dove-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"The future of Dove-Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think everyone is aware of the chip shortage that has been on going for a while now and it&#8217;s sadly showing very little sign of improving for the 12 to 18 months. It&#8217;s not just chips either, connectors, potentiometers, switches, everything has gone long lead time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add in the growing rate of inflation, cost of living crises that&#8217;s happening in the UK as well as a number of personal changes in my life, I&#8217;m considering the future of Dove-Audio and synths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my life, Suzi is keeping me very busy and I am really enjoying the morning walks, which take around an hour and we go through some beautiful countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-635x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Suzi Saluki\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-768x1239.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-952x1536.jpg 952w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-1269x2048.jpg 1269w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-1140x1839.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220919_0931372-scaled.jpg 1587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption>Suzi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-1024x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-1024x385.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-1536x577.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-2048x770.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221008_0800372-1140x429.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Morning mist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221003_063911-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Early morning sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also continuing my counseling, which is really helping me slow down and think a lot about myself and I&#8217;m learning a lot about how I think. Also the depression is subsiding, I still have the odd &#8220;grey&#8221; day, but on the whole things are improving and I&#8217;m learning to enjoy life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add in that I am really enjoying my day job, and it&#8217;s keeping me very busy, I am going to say that Dove-Audio will be &#8220;going into hibernation&#8221; for a while, I&#8217;ll keep an eye on things, but in all honesty it&#8217;s likely to be 12 months or so before I have a product that I can sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221009_144517-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Sleeping Suzi and Dove-Audio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m going to stop developing, just that development isn&#8217;t my highest priority right now. Development of my poly-synth, sequencer, voice module and complope modules will continue, I&#8217;ll update progress for the modules on the Dove Audio page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dove-audio.com\/?page_id=74\">Development \u2013 Dove Audio (dove-audio.com)<\/a>. As for the poly, things are going well, and once I have somethings to show and demonstrate I&#8217;ll make a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll still be blogging about random bits and things, and I will post some sounds from Delta, and a few pictures as it develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So please, stay safe, look after your loved ones and yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think everyone is aware of the chip shortage that has been on going for a while now and it&#8217;s sadly showing very little sign of improving for the 12 to 18 months. It&#8217;s not just chips either, connectors, potentiometers, switches, everything has gone long lead time. Add in the growing rate of inflation, cost of living crises that&#8217;s happening in the UK as well as a number of personal changes in my life, I&#8217;m considering the future of Dove-Audio and synths. In my life, Suzi is keeping me very busy and I am really enjoying the morning walks, which take around an hour and we go through some beautiful countryside. I&#8217;m also continuing my counseling, which is really helping me slow down and think a lot about myself and I&#8217;m learning a lot about how I think. Also the depression is subsiding, I still have the odd &#8220;grey&#8221; day, but on the whole things are improving and I&#8217;m learning to enjoy life. Add in that I am really enjoying my day job, and it&#8217;s keeping me very busy, I am going to say that Dove-Audio will be &#8220;going into hibernation&#8221; for a while, I&#8217;ll keep an eye on things, but in all honesty it&#8217;s likely to be 12 months or so before I have a product that I can sell. 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So please, stay safe, look after your loved ones and yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[14,16,20,15,18,19,17],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-synths","tag-delta","tag-depression","tag-dove-audio","tag-polysynth","tag-saluki","tag-saluqi","tag-suzi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}