[4] They hired some former Linn employees including Steve Alcorn, former Vice President of Engineering and Chief Operating Officer.

They completely reinvented the ill-fated Linn 9000 drum machine[3] and dubbed it the Forat F9000: the first fully functional integrated sampling / sequencing / MIDI work station.

Today, they service, upgrade and customize most types of drum machines and many brands of vintage analog synthesizers.

They've done custom paint jobs on keyboards and most of the Akai MPC and Roland drum machines and music workstations.

At the time of writing (2015), Forat Electronics continues to provide products and services to music artists, producers and engineers around the world.