KORG BEING SOLD!?!??!?

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:06 am

EvilDragon wrote:
Sibelius is really bloated now and I don't like that at all. I'm using MuseScore and it suits all my needs quite perfectly. ProFools? Don't even go there. Bleh.

Never mind!

miden · Post by **miden** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:16 am

As long as nothing changes for the end-user, and prices do not rise as a result of any take-over, then who cares!!

Dennis

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:16 am

Ozy come on, give us news rumors from financial circles.... they are the best posts in the thread! you should collect and make them a sticky thread

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:42 am

kimu wrote:Ozy come on, give us news rumors from financial circles

Ok, just one more.

But remember: off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush

Last night we had our usual Elderly meeting at the Synagogue, and we concluded that

Mubarak will be the next CEO of Korg, now that he's got some spare time,

and as of consequence,

JerryK will be the next Pharaoh.

Next Korg synth will be named "The Nile",

in hommage to the attitude of disgruntled Oasys buyers.

(How powerful will "The Nile" be? Well, think of the Lost Ark running amok in the Indiana Jones movie... multiply that by 9, and add a second touch screen. 666 voices of polyphony and the full monty. It will be so powerful that Rudess will have to SHAVE before using it).

Given our immense power of manipulation of Ze Media and Ze Global Finanz, all of this will happen very soon.

Maybe already at Spring NAMM.

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:52 pm

Would Nord have the financial assets to Purchase Korg???I thought Yamaha part owned or had shares within Korg...

So would the Company be called "Yamanordokorgha"

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:36 pm

Kontrol49 wrote:I thought Yamaha part owned or had shares within Korg...

no, that happened in the past, they subsequently sold them.

BTW, this just came in:

European Central Bank buys Korg and moves its headquarters to Frankfurt and its factories to Ireland =

Sharp becomes Korg CEO,

Korgforums is renamed CorqVorumz, access is forbidden to forumers who have debts, pay their workstations through consumer financing, and/or speak Italian, Greek, Spanish or Portuguese,

Kronos' price fluctuates with Ze Mighty Evro [oops, this is already happening as well].

All Oasys owners get a 2-years deadline for putting their patches in alphabetic order and/or limit the patch number within a common european limit of 800.

Sina172 · Post by **Sina172** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:48 pm

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:52 pm

Sina172 wrote:Yamaha NEVER owned Korg or ANY part of it.

um... yah they did...

Without digging too far on the interwebs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg

In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg's stock. The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. After the following 5 very successful years, Kato had enough money to rebuy most of the Yamaha share back in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg_M1

In its six-year production period, more than 250,000 units were sold, making it Korg's most successful synthesizer. Though M1 was not the first music workstation on the market, it was among the first in its class. The volume of M1's sales allowed Korg executives to buy Yamaha's share of the company, a deal which had originated in the mid-1980s.

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:19 pm

Sina172 wrote:Yamaha NEVER owned Korg or ANY part of it.

apodictic as always,

and wrong as most often.

In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg's stock. The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. After the following 5 very successful years, Kato had enough money to rebuy most of the Yamaha share back in 1993.(source_ wiki)

Sina172 wrote:Not sure where the RH2 and RH3 come from though.

You, "not shure" of something?!?

Come on, sina, you DEAL in certitudes all the time!

BTW: if you visited korgforums from time to time, and if you really read what other people say,

you'd know, from Korg people posting here,

that rh3 and rh2 are made by Korg itself.

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:27 pm

Kontrol49 wrote:So Korg sells out to nord...so are they going to be called Knord

Knord!!!They've got the Kernow how

Those who have never seen the old Knorr foods brand TV ad in the UK,won't get this.

Correction-

Fiat purchased Nord. Korg is not involved.

The new company will produce a workstation called the "Fnord". They claim that their blend of "Italian fire and Swedish ice" will result in the hottest, coolest, most popular musical instrument the world has ever known.

Before long, we'll all be seeing the Fnords everywere.

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:51 pm

Strider wrote:hottest, coolest

Strider wrote:Fiat purchased Nord. Korg is not involved.The new company will produce a workstation called the "Fnord".

now, that would be just silly and funny

if Ford yesterday hadn't really SUED Ferrari (a Fiat company which makes hot, cool, red

cars) for naming its new formula1 like a Ford pickup.

So, you probably got hint of something serious:

Fiat buys Nord
Fnord makes Ferrari-red keyboards
Ford sues Fnord for copying its name,
but says it's about the surname not the name.

Perfecty rational.

Now, Lionstracs makes red keyboards as well, and it's Italian...

Coincidence? I think not.

This leaves Rob Sherrat's role to be defined in the Risiko. As... what?

Must be something Italian, Red and powerful.

He can't become a bottle of Campari, so he's gotta soon become a Cardinal in Rome, I presume.

Ok, that's it: the next Pope will be Swedish, THEN it will be Rob. Who is Swedish.

Kontrol49 · Post by **Kontrol49** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:32 am

Sina172 wrote:
Kontrol49 wrote:I thought Yamaha part owned or had shares within Korg...
Yamaha NEVER owned Korg or ANY part of it. Korg bought keybeds from Yamaha until the Triton days because they didn't have the funds to implement their own keybeds.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:47 am

Strider wrote:Correction-

Fiat purchased Nord. Korg is not involved.

The new company will produce a workstation called the "Fnord".

I'm pretty sure the new company would be called FIORD and it'd be a pat of a larger company... in Norway.

Vadim · Post by **Vadim** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:46 am

ozy wrote:
Microsoft takes over Korg = Korg applications for Apple are immediately discontinued.

If you would switch Microsoft and Apple, than that would make perfect sense. Apple bought out emagic and now logic is Mac only! But Microsoft office is both for Mac and Windows, and even Windows Operating Software! Apple think they own music industry and whatever with their itunes, ipods and even their music production ideas. Microsoft isn't great with their "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" type operating software, but Mac with their ideas thinking they own the world and music industry is insane!

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:49 am

Vadim wrote:If you would switch Microsoft and Apple, than that would make perfect sense.

Apple takes over Korg = mr Katoh gets a bad, really, really bad cold, excuses from company activity for "a couple of weeks". Comes back 6 months later, weighing 35 pounds.

Kronos 2 is released, it's 1.5 inches high, keys are virtual on a flat screen, pitch bend works only if you hold tight the other side of the keyboard with your right hand. But it takes photos and can call collct in 32 countries, including Dubai, excluding Belgium.

Korg users are banned from visiting any forum not supervised by Elderly customers. Words to be used in forums are severely restricted, transgressors banned from owning a Korg and family and friends obstracize them. Divorce sentences are pronounced, containing the formula "cruel and vicious commitment to black electronic objects".

Customers meet once a week, on wednesday evenings (only evening not yet occupied by another religion since Helter Skelter sued Goldman Sachs for the exclusive on Black Mondays and won), and spend three hours sipping green tea, practicing pilates, and getting mimic lessons on the best way of frowning upon xxx [insert here anything not apple].

The new company is named Krapple.

Following the huge success of Snafos, its latest workstation-cum-phone-cum-radio-cum-movie-cum-tens-cum-teletransporter,

Krapple takes over Scientology.

Headquarters are moved in the vicinity on Alpha Centauri.

Korg users are abducted by a friendly Mother Spaceship.

Oasys users (dubbed "The Meek" and "The Lesser" or "MY Blessed Children") get their reward in Heavens.

On the Earth, musical history restarts its millenary progress: in order to fill the void left by Jordan Rudess, 250 million chinese have to start playing quick scales 17 hours a day.

By the sheer power of great numbers, a number of masterpieces is produced in the process.

Unfortunately they are played on Roland Gaias.

Mankind abandones music for good.

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