the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!

[Hairy Harry]

How about a non-disclosure agreement signed with Korg...
I have no commercial aspirations....

Now I'm just curious... like "who will be president"?

(little USA humor.... VERY little  :^)

H^) harry

>From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
>To: czech at Micronas.Com
>CC: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: Re: the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:03:49 +0100
>
>From: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
>Subject: the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:20:43 +0100 (MET)
>
>Hi Martin,
>
> > 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...).
>
>Yuck! Good to see that Japan tradition seems a bit diffrent, but then,
>I am not living there... so, the MS20-engineer got elivated, well
>deserved! Good news indeed.
>
> > Now, saturday I returned to my old appartment with some
> > buckets of paint. What do I see in the mail box?
> > Airmail Japan! Korg!
>
>Don't say they can't be good nice engineers!!! This is the way to go!
>
> > 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...
>
>Cool!
>
> > The problem is: it is explicitly forbidden to gain
> > economic advantage from this information.
> > And I will respect that. Point.
>
>Not a hard point to understand. Not that I like the restriction, but I
>can understand their 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?
>
>Touchy.
>
>There are a few methods that springs to mind:
>
>1) Write a kind mail to Mr. Mieda and kindly ask for permition to
>    publish the material provided alongside some suitable copyright
>    message and "licence". If Korg find such a solution feasable then
>    it would allow for a simple and cheap spread of the material.
>
>2) Lost the other methods from my mind. The above seems like a
>    sensible thing to do.
>
>I'd sure like to see those pages!
>
>Cheers,
>Magnus
>

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