Good Morning to All from the UK:

I've been away in Suffolk the past three days. Upon returning I began catching up on SynthZone posts and read the additional comments by KozyKeys and Peter Bentley, and the controversy over possible censorship on this forum. During my absence, Tony Smith of Technote International, responded to the e-mail I posted above. In fairness to Technote International, and Tony Smith in particular, I want to post his reply. It is the fair and gentlemanly thing to do. I appreciated Tony taking the time to respond. Perhaps this will clear the air to some degree over this contentious issue.

Warm Regards,

Chuck Piper

Dear Mr Piper

I must point out that our commitment to Technics owners all over the world is not in question. We are merely making some fundamental changes to our site and feel that the majority of customers are preferably using the synth-zone forum for their discussions. We feel that they specialise in the forum activity and I personally think they offer a great service to all keyboard owners. I will updating our site to link to synthzone for customers discussions, but by customers reaction they prefer this so I see this as giving customers what they want. By simply removing the forum does not mean we are closing any doors, far from it in fact.

Technote specialise in dedicated software and other products which has always been our main business. There are no changes planned for Techplus, and from general reaction we feel we are supporting almost 3000 Technics owners with this publication sucessfully. So I do feel we are doing our bit to provide you all with a quality publication backed up by a great range of products. I understand that we cannot please everyone's needs, but I must stress that our commitment to giving customers a quality service is our highest priority. We are not supported in anyway by Technics and as such we have to remain a profitble company like any other third party company in order to continue providing both the service and products we produce.

We look forward to continuing being of service to you and all our customers around the world.

If you wish to post this message please feel free to do so.

Kind regards
TONY SMITH
Managing Director
Technote Int Ltd