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> I've been hearing about this for a couple of months on these lists, about Alesis having financial problems. Though I haven't found information about this anywhere. Is this a rumour,

It is no rumour. They had filed chapter *** (don't know the number) which asked for protection from the banks etc for some months to restructure the organisation. They've been bought by Numark. Good move imo.

> or is there a palce on the net where I can read more about this?

Harmony central reported about it, I think.

Bye,
J
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yoonchi@... wrote:

>
> I've been hearing about this for a couple of months on these lists,
> about Alesis having financial problems. Though I haven't found
> information about this anywhere. Is this a rumour, or is there a palce
> on the net where I can read more about this?
> Even if Alesis would go down, there would still be some companies
> willing to take over their technology. Maybe Alesis will end up in the
> hands of Creative then, :-)(ouch). Just like Emu and Ensoniq did.
> Would be better if Alesis became property of Yamaha, like Korg is.
> So rumour or not?
> Regards,
> Yoonchi.
>
>
>
>

Alesis was in trouble and now are being taken over by Numark.
http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2001/Alesis-New-Ownership.html

[and contarary to popular myth Korg is not owned by Yamaha]

oink

--- In logic-ot@y..., David Eager <oink@o...> wrote:
> 
> 
> yoonchi@c... wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've been hearing about this for a couple of months on these lists,
> > about Alesis having financial problems. Though I haven't found
> > information about this anywhere. Is this a rumour, or is there a palce
> > on the net where I can read more about this?
> > Even if Alesis would go down, there would still be some companies
> > willing to take over their technology. Maybe Alesis will end up in the
> > hands of Creative then, :-)(ouch). Just like Emu and Ensoniq did.
> > Would be better if Alesis became property of Yamaha, like Korg is.
> > So rumour or not?
> > Regards,
> > Yoonchi.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Alesis was in trouble and now are being taken over by Numark.
> http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2001/Alesis-New-Ownership.html

Thanx, (and Joeri too. Btw that word was chapter 11, I think, :-)) I saw this also mentioned on the Alesis site this morning. I hadn't seen it on the Alesis site before.
Hmm, and the date says June 22, while it was already anounced at Harmony Central on June 2nd. Strange.


> [and contarary to popular myth Korg is not owned by Yamaha]
> 

This is not a myth, AFAIK. Yamaha aquired Korg in the 80's just before the devolpment of the Wavestation, if I'm not mistaken. That is, Yamaha owns the majority of stock in Korg. Doesn't mean that Korg has it's own R&D, marketing and distribution.
Regards,
Yoonchi.