Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hi HAWK-800 owners (and potential owners),

Here's the situation.

i) The battery went flat again. It lasted about 8 weeks this time. Not
much of an improvement over the last time. The best fix for this is to
change the software to use flash memory for patch storage thereby
completely eliminating the battery. But that requires further work on
the software and this is not going to be an easy task.

ii) There is a bug that I haven't yet fixed that causes stuck notes
for downstream MIDI devices when you operate the sequencer and play
notes at the same time. Once again, the software fix is not going to
be an easy task.

iii) I've sold a grand total of 13 kits.

iv) I've done some of the development work on the Atomahawk kit but
it's not finished yet.

v) I have another project waiting to begin for a completely unrelated
field (wide area networking) that promises to actually make a big load
of cash.

So then, The Ultimatum from my Wife is - I am not going to do anymore
work on the HAWK-800 or Atomahawk kits until I sell at least another
ten HAWK-800 kits. I have until mid July to see that happen.

I will of course continue to support the HAWK-800 as it exists today.
And I definitely will get back to further development of both the
HAWK-800 and the Atomahawk later this year.

Of course, I could be surprised and get ten orders in 28 days. But I
think that unlikely.

So for now, it's been a lot of fun.

Mike.