Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

could get over to the adafruit forums, and fit the hawk 
with a x0xbox sequencer, rewrite the firmware(as a poly-
phonic chord-er, etc etc ;)  )

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "tim.tashpulatov" <tim.tashpulatov@...> wrote:
>
> MIDIbox SEQ is already out there, being open hardware/firmware:
> 
> http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_seq.html
> 
> 
> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@> wrote:
> >
> > How about I just design/build/manufacture a new 1RU arpeggiator?
> > 
> > 
> > Oh hang on, I can do a gazillion things arp-wise on a PC with any number of 
> > different programs.
> > 
> > Or, how big is the market for this 1RU ARP?
> > 
> > Tiny, I would say. I get ideas like this pitched to me quite regularly. But the 
> > problem is the amount of time and money required to develop them and then the 
> > completely unproven market. If there's one thing that developing the HAWK kits 
> > taught me, it's that it is very hard to make money in the arts! 
> > 
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > From: zoinky420 <zoinky420@>
> > To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Mon, December 27, 2010 1:13:50 AM
> > Subject: [korgpolyex] Re: OT: Akai arpeggiator
> > 
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's someone selling the service manual:
> > > 
> > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&&item=360298820082
> > > 
> > > Maybe that's got some clues to how it can be adapted.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well I know a lot of people have checked the service manual for an easy hack, 
> > and there isn't any.  It would have to be a major firmware rewrite project like 
> > the Hawk.  And if acheived, it would have to be marketed differently than the 
> > Hawk.  People who buy the Hawk kits are already owners of Poly800s, whereas the 
> > people wanting to buy the clockable Akai Arp would mostly not already own the 
> > unit.  And as far as I can tell the Hawk has not driven up costs of the Poly800, 
> > but if the clock-kit for the Akai arp were sold the same way the Hawk kit is, 
> > people would suddenly flock to ebay to buy the previously obscure Akai Arp, 
> > driving up the price, and that's profit that should be going to the kit maker.  
> > So the thing for the kit designer to do would be to buy up as many cheap Akai 
> > arps as he can and install the kit into them, selling it as an upgraded unit 
> > rather than a kit.  Considering the price the Oberheim Cyclone goes for on ebay 
> > (and it apparently crashes frequently), there would be pretty high profit margin 
> > on the venture.
> >
>