Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

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

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the message.

First time I hear about the arpegiator software and I'm very interested about it!!!

One thing I wanted to know, did you get the chip for the AtomaHawk?

Best regards,

Bapt.

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>

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

a|x

--- 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
>
> korgpolyex-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>

Mike, next time you need to mass-email all the Hawk owners, PLEASE use Bcc: (blind carbon copy) instead of CC: (carbon copy). I've already received two spam emails from a retailer called 'Hello Music' thanks to your email address giveaway, and I'm sure everyone else has too.

FYI, market-targeted (in this case musicians), known-to-be-valid emails are worth about $5 each to marketers. You just gave away 86 of them, meaning that for some unscrupulous jerk it was like christmas morning since he just made $430 off it.

Ouch...

alx

On 30 Apr 2011, at 20:04, "zoinky420" <zoinky420@...> wrote:

> Mike, next time you need to mass-email all the Hawk owners, PLEASE use Bcc: (blind carbon copy) instead of CC: (carbon copy). I've already received two spam emails from a retailer called 'Hello Music' thanks to your email address giveaway, and I'm sure everyone else has too.
>
> FYI, market-targeted (in this case musicians), known-to-be-valid emails are worth about $5 each to marketers. You just gave away 86 of them, meaning that for some unscrupulous jerk it was like christmas morning since he just made $430 off it.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
>
>