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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] The HAWK kit - update

From: Alex Drinkwater <the_voder@...>
Date: 2011-04-25

Must have another go at getting my EX-800 Hawk mod up-and-running.

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--- On Sun, 24/4/11, korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:

> From: korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@...>
> Subject: [korgpolyex] The HAWK kit - update
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 24 April, 2011, 20:52
> Hi Hawk owners,
>
> For those of you who have been HAWK fans, I thank you!
>
> The arpeggiator software update will be released very soon.
> I know some of you
> are very interested in that feature.
>
> For customers that bought the kit within the last six
> months, I discovered that
> I was supplied with a batch of bad 256K flash memory
> chips.
>
> If you experience problems with your kits I am going to
> provide a repair
> service. I will help you to determine if your kit has a bad
> flash chip.
>
> Then, you pick up the cost of shipping the HAWK board back
> to me and I will do
> the repair for you and pick up the cost of shipping it back
> to you.
>
> I apologize for the difficulty some of you have recently
> experienced. I hope you
> can understand that when I or anyone else order chips, we
> all have an
> expectation that the chips are OK. In this particular
> shipment of chips, I
> discovered that 4 out 5 of them were bad.
>
> A little update on the hardware side of things. I have
> redesigned the HAWK
> board. It is now much smaller and uses fewer chips. This
> makes it much better
> for MK2 owners and much easier to mount in the Poly-800 and
> the EX-800.
>
> Thanks for taking a moment to read my update.
>
> Rock on - Korgers!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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>
> Feel free to upload into the files section any sysex dumps
> and tape dumps of patches that you may have but please
> discuss (with the entire group) the posting of other files
> ∗before∗ posting them. This helps us to keep redundant
> information from showing up everywhere and also allows us to
> constantly improve the format and structure of the
> documentation. We talk about the HAWK-800 quite a bit but we
> also discuss and help owners of the original Poly-800
> models. So don't be shy if you haven't got the
> HAWK-800.Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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