the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!

[Hairy Harry]

Re: Resolve Conflict....?

Tactical Nuclear Strike on Doepfer headquarters ???

Mafia Hit...

Hey Bjorn... do you still have that real deep lake
near your home ???  :^)

H^)  harry


>From: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
>Reply-To: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:20:43 +0100 (MET)
>
>Do you remember the Korg MS20 filter debate?
>We couldn't figure out what this strange "KORG35" hybrid
>single line package chip was (early models).
>I managed to get hold on one of these, but didn't want to "open"
>it. J.H. made some assumption about the inner circuit.
>I even suggested X ray.
>
>
>Then a friendly soul in Japan wrote me an email, containing
>the address of some of the engineers who made the MS20.
>Some Mr. Saegusa.
>His work was gratified and he is now up in the hierachy in
>KORG Japan (the western world seems to like more lawyers
>in the top who have no clue...).
>
>I wanted to write a letter to this address, but you know my
>problem: no time. Now I'm moving house, this means clean up.
>Also mail box. So I found this mail again (I think it was
>Dr. Osamu, thank you!). And I sat down and wrote this
>letter. I thought that I would never get an answer and forgot
>about it.
>
>Now, saturday I returned to my old appartment with some
>buckets of paint. What do I see in the mail box?
>Airmail Japan! Korg!
>
>Mr. Mori (general manager new products) explains to me
>that his boss (Mr. Saegusa) is really called Mieda,
>but this is the same writing in Japanese.
>Anyway, they found my letter quite cool and therefore
>included two pages of schematic, test circuit etc. for
>the KORG25 hybrid!
>
>4 bip trans
>1 jfet
>6 resistors
>
>not quite the proposed circuits...
>
>The problem is: it is explicitly forbidden to gain
>economic advantage from this information.
>And I will respect that. Point.
>
>You know all the Doepfer case. If I put this information
>on my web page, there may be a commercial KORG MS20 filter clone
>very soon.
>
>Now, I consider me to be trustworthy, therefore I can not
>publish this in the moment.
>
>Any suggestions how to avoid this conflict?
>
>m.c.
>

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