Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

I'm patiently waiting till the program / modification is working without falures.
I did not understand much of the discussions in a kind of slang language between the 
menbers 
When I should buy the Hawk 800, what do I get, a working device, or something that 
stucks while by while and gets low batteries from time to time (program gone?)
Please can you summerise what I get at what prize?
Can I use my  poly 800 as a midi controller, use different channels?
Because of my bad English (I'm from the Netherlands)I hope you can understand 
my message.

John
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
>
> Hi HAWK-800 owners (and potential owners),
> 
> Here's the situation.
> 
> i) The battery went flat again. It lasted about 8 weeks this time. Not
> much of an improvement over the last time. The best fix for this is to
> change the software to use flash memory for patch storage thereby
> completely eliminating the battery. But that requires further work on
> the software and this is not going to be an easy task.
> 
> ii) There is a bug that I haven't yet fixed that causes stuck notes
> for downstream MIDI devices when you operate the sequencer and play
> notes at the same time. Once again, the software fix is not going to
> be an easy task.
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