the KORG25 hybrid mystery show comes to an end!

[Adolf Stalin]

>How about a non-disclosure agreement signed with Korg...
>I have no commercial aspirations....
>
>Now I'm just curious... like "who will be president"?

Had no idea that one could sign a non-disclosure
agreement to  become the president!?

What a invention, where do i sign?

AS (for  dictator)

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>(little USA humor.... VERY little  :^)
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>H^) harry
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>>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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