I've been around, I just haven't been here. If you do try music production, try Ableton. I use it for trance/techno and I've found some great VSTs for it. (Literally thousands of presets and instruments) The learning curve was like 3 months just for the basics. About a year into it and I'm still terrible, but it's so much fun. Absolutely brutal, nothing about it was user-friendly.
I've been toying with the idea of making shitty dubstep/electronica with reason or some other music software for a while, i just don't have the speakers necessary for quality listening/tuning. where the hell have you been?
I gave up Bryce and Photoshop years ago. I picked up music production as a creative hobby now, using Ableton Live. That's not to say I still can't do it, there's just only so much you can do with abstract renders, it gets old. The two are really quite similar.
who the fuck is this huh what's up man, made any new bryce stuff?