Hi Everyone,

I'm delighted to tell you that, following discussions with Fred Mellink and Gert-Jan de Vos, the creators of KN-SDExplorer, program licenses for the original version will be available again from 25th September 2014. New web pages will be launched around that date with detailed support and video tutorials to follow shortly after that.

We're planning to release a book with detailed instructions, tips and hints later in the year and I might extend the book to include other articles and tutorials (if there is enough interest from the community).

In October we'll commence work on a new release of KN-SDExplorer with new features, including support for more Technics keyboards (this might involve a change of name since we are planning to support floppy disk transfer as well as SD Cards).

Most important, if you have any feature suggestions please let me know.

For those of you who are familiar with HEX editing we'll be grateful for any HEX code information you have about any of the instruments, or indeed any file-format information that you are able to share. The guys have quite a lot of HEX info about the KN7000 and KN2600 and I've been gathering more information about other Technics keyboards from around the Internet (and from archives of this forum), great info and Synth Zone is an amazing resource as ever, thank you Nigel!

As you will appreciate, we are several months away from a new version and with a host of new features planned there is a lot of work to do but I wanted to write to all of you 'core fans' and let you know about this exciting new development. Your support and feedback will be very important to us.

Best wishes,
Mike

[i]Hello Mike,

I haven't been on this site for awhile so I've only just read your exciting news about keeping the KN7000 'alive'.

As a great fan of the KN7000 I have several items that may be of interest to you i.e: Manuals, 'How Do I Do That? written by Alec Pagida, original Technic floppy disks (including system disks) and many other 'personal' sets sent to me from other generous members of this Forum.

Please let me know if I can be of any help at all.

Regards - Audrey Turner

Hi Audrey,

I hope you are feeling better after your recent hospital visit. I notice that Ray was asking after you in this thread:

http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/392696/all/PR_804

Isn't is funny how you can know someone for years and not say hello (like your neighbours!), I say that because I've been reading your posts here for years but I wasn't a member so didn't have opportunity to say hi.

Thanks for your kind offer. In particular if you have the initial data disk there's a young lady in Clacton on Sea who is looking for a copy and I can't find mine! I'll send you a private message.

Best wishes,
Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for letting me know you'll be sending an email. The internet security is so bad these days, I only open emails I am expecting nothing else, not even if they have a family address. My policy is if the family really need to get in touch, they'll phone me. Am I being too cautious? I think not!

Audrey

Hi Audrey and Everyone,

Just to let you know that I sent you an email and a private message on here a while ago Audrey, I don't want you to think I didn't respond to your message.

All,

We have re-launched KN-SDExplorer with a new official website with information and support for new and existing customers.

http://software.technicskn7000.com/

We're working on the next version of the software, it will be a while before it is ready for release. That version will support floppy disks as well as SD Cards. This allows us to enable support for more keyboards in the KN range.

Following on from that, if there is enough interest, we have a new set of features in planning for yet another version.

I'm very excited about this step forward and I want to thank you all for the tremendous support you have given me in all I'm trying to achieve!

Best wishes,
Mike