I will be closing my Technics KN5000 "How To" site about the 1st of January 2002. I will be switching to a different Internet Service Provider and will no longer have the necessary web space available.

If anyone wants to keep any of the articles from the site, they can be printed.

If anyone would like to host the site I can provide the source code and photographs.
http://bobgrh.home.att.net

Hi Bob

This is bad news for the KN5000 users, your
site is excellent information.
e-Mail on the way................
GJ

Hi Bob:
I concur with Gunnar. Your wonderful KN5000 resource website will be SORELY missed by us KN5000 players worldwide. Thanks so much for the tremendous contribution you have made to the Technics KN5000 community. I guess this means I'd better start 'printing out' all the pages from your website before Jan 1st 2002.

Bob, could this possibly be a hint that you may have plans to upgrade your KN5000 to 'another' keyboard soon? Possibly the KN6500 (now that TechManger6000 is finally available), or possibly even another arranger KB brand? Just curious

- Scott

Thanks Scott,

No, I don't plan to change to any new keyboard until Technics gets it's act together on the hard disk subject. I'll probably upgrade to the next KN assuming they solve that item.

Gunnar Jonny has kindly agreed to host the How To pages and will have the site ready in a few days. So the data will still be available. I will be giving a link to his site at my home page in the next few days.

I hope to be going to a high speed internet connection but do not have cable available here yet. So, it may be a DSL satellite link.

Hi all

The pages is uploaded, and accessable
from my WebSite
Look into the Technical Info pages.
GJ

[This message has been edited by Gunnar Jonny (edited 11-09-2001).]

Gunnar!
THANKS so much for taking over the stewardship of Bob's very valuable KN5000 website. Gunnar, you truly are a LIFESAVER! Now I don't have to print out all those pages and will also be doing my little part to save the forest and trees too.

Bob, my sentiments are with you on the KN6500 hard drive issue, especially now hearing that the SX6 hard drive only supports a 'parallel port' interface (Very SLOW indeed) and not the current popular USB or serial interface standard, as was originally intended by Keysoft Service.

I plan to get the much anticipated KN7000 when it's released (Fall 2002?), but I'm still trying to decide whether to purchase the KN6500 with hard drive & TechManager6000 now or possibly adding a Ketron SD1 in the meantime. Decisions decisions. Hopefully this trusty ol KN5000 will keep on going (for another year) like the Duracell bunny rabbit does.

Thank you Bob & Gunnar for helping those of us with KN5000's! I appreciate all the hard work that you two have done for us.
Tom G.

Thank's for all kind words guys

It is a pleasure for me to host those pages,
and hopefully we will see Bob's contribution
in the future too.
As long as there are KN5000's still working,
it is always some that this keyboards are new
to, so the pages are a great addon to my little
corner of the Web.
Hopefully my webhosts keep the free policy in
the years to come too, or else I have a h***
of a job to move around in the syberspace

Scott, now when we have waited so long for the
engineers super HD6 tool, we might be smart
enough to by a good condition KN6500 when the
next model coming to the dealers?
Then we can start our reviews og the KN6500,
and have the TechManager too.
Guess we will be up to date, eh??
Maybe Tom join "the club" too, then we are
3 "newbies" again.
Kind regards
GJ

I don’t think that it would be wise to buy a KN6000/6500 with the KN7000 probably less than a year away. The KN6000/6500 is still a 64-note polyphony machine and appears to be taxed to the maximum that the CPU can handle. I am sure that the KN7000 will not need a hard disk. The file compression techniques available now permits an enormous amount of data (songs or styles) to be placed in the space of cheap compact flash or smart media cards that can be easily moved to and from a PC. You wouldn’t need software like the Tech Manager with that kind of memory storage. My primary concern is whether Technics will end their practice of using unique modules that can not be purchased as standard replacement items. Their use of unique floppy and hard drives has chased many many people to other brands. The cost of these special Technics items is exorbitant and unwarranted. And, if they use a unique mass storage device like a unique flash memory card or a Technics only CDRW you will no longer find me in the Technics keyboard player community.

Bob, you have some good points here, but my
thought was that we would probably be able to
buy a good condition KN6500 for a fairly price
when the next KN are in the stores.....
....and probably be the first ones to see if
and how the new KN6 TechManager works.
GJ