To clear up some confusion:
Mark passed away last year, in 2025. It wasn’t a typo on my part.
When I posted three days ago, I had just learned the news and took time to do some research to be absolutely sure.
Bliff has been my friend since early 2018, when we met in my VCV Rack Twitch stream. We connected and began talking regularly once I figured out Discord and joined his server, “Land of Bliff.” I quickly became his module tester, not in a formal way, but just for fun. I tested and gave feedback on everything from that point on. I would share ideas or workflows I wanted, and he would work on them.
Even though he was a friend, I hadn’t had contact with him for a while. I didn’t want to bother him because I knew he was taking a break from the internet, and I respected that.
But a few days ago, something pushed me to see if I could find any news without disturbing him. Knowing a few things about him, I was able to find this:
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/46595160/mark-donald-schack
I was shocked.
I had never seen him in person, or even in an image or video before, so I still wasn’t 100% sure (the wonders of internet friendship in this era, right?). But I finally got confirmation from our private chats. He once posted on his birthday: “Actually, I just turned 52 today.” That was on a Jan. 7th, the same as the obituary.
So now I know, and you know. More than a year ago, a great soul left this realm for the other side.
I plan on streaming in his memory. I have many of his “unpublished” modules he was working on and so many patches (more than 200) for VCV Rack V1 that I can’t use in V2 because of them. I still have V1 installed, so that’s what I’m going to stream. I just need to shake this sad feeling a bit first, but when I feel better, I will start. For those who know me, these will be long streams, hours, days, weeks, perhaps months. I don’t use the mic very often, but I might tell a few stories about the past, the modules, their history, and about Mark and his other projects.
I will post IF and WHEN I do this.
thank you 
And Mark,
Where ever you went…
… There you are 
( He would understand why and what it means 
)
