I am so very sorry to read this. I'm not as active here as I am on muffs and we just had a death there last month of a prolific member that was sudden.
2012 seems to have thus far been a rough year on a few synth communities. Though I only talked with Ryan once he was helpful and genuine. A real loss for the elektron community.
Condolences all around to people here and those who were his RL family and friends.