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Many thanks to Keith Meiere for his work in compiling the full factory sound libraries on his S-50 page, which I've included in these archives. All archives are complete collections, checked and labeled for accuracy. This page contains sample libraries for the S-50, S-550 and S-330 in IMG and HFE format for HxC floppy emulators. The Roland S-series samplers were serious competitors in the sampler market at the time of their release, and have been used by Duran Duran, Janet Jackson, Jimi Tenor, Johnny Hates Jazz, Kenny Loggins, Kids Incorporated, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Roxette, and Vangelis among others.

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The S-50 could be externally controlled with a mouse and CRT monitor, allowing for more accurate sample editing and making it a "poor man's Fairlight." As a bonus to new customers, Roland allowed users to copy the full factory library of sound samples onto their own floppy disks free of charge from authorized dealers. The time-variant filters in the S-550 and S-330 were similar to the filters in the Roland D-50, and as with the D-50, the S-50 used linear interpolation to transpose the pitch of its samples. While its A/D converters and sample memory are 12-bit, samples are converted to 16-bit on output, allowing for more headroom on playback. The Roland S-50 was released alongside the S-10, which uses identical converters but has less sample memory and polyphony (and uses Quick Disks instead of 3.5" floppy disks). The S-330 (1988) is a 1U rack mount version of the S-550 with half the sample memory. The S-550 (1987) is the rack mount version of the S-50, with double the sample memory of the S-50 and non-destructive filters. It has 16 voices of polyphony and operates at 12-bit/15 kHz/30 kHz resolution. A detailed step-by-step can be found here (again in Japanese).The Roland S-50 is a sampler introduced in 1986. An image of a Quick Disk is first made on a SD card, then you can directly run the game of this disk image. However, if you are the lucky owner of a MSX game on Quick Disk, you can be interested in the VirtuaQD hardware emulator (Japanese site), which emulates also the Famicom Disk System. In case of malfunctioning, the Quick Disk Drive needs a new belt, with the following specifications: square shape diameter 40mm and 1.2mm thick.Īs this media has been rarely used on the MSX system, none of the MSX emulators has support for it. The Quick Disk interface cartridge will provide a ROM with special QuickDisk BASIC commands This makes QD much slower then competing disk storage systems.ĭeleting files is also a problem, and you can only delete the last file or format the disk and start from scratch. Data is recorded in a spiral and the whole disk needs to be scanned to do a directory listing. Instead of using tracks like regular disks, and a file system with directory, it is more similar to tape. The medium is sometimes also called 3.0 inch which refers to the hard plastic casing.Īn unformated disk has 64kB on each side. This media is called 2.8 inch which probably refers to the size of the medium inside the hard plastic case. QD compared to the disk of Family Computer Disk System Specifications Sharp, Casio and Canon for some Japanese word processors.ĭisks of the Family Computer Disk System for NES (Nintendo) are Quick Disks with a longer casing. Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Akai and Kawai have used it for their synthesizer, sampler, sequencer and some other sound equipment.

The Sharp MZ-1500 computer has a built-in Quick Disk Drive. Some other companies have used the Quick Drive outside the MSX standard. Instead the market widely adopted the 3.5 inch diskette format.

#Roland quick disk software#

Only a hand full of MSX software titles were released on this format in Japan and Italy. When using the R800 mode, is looses synchronisation and you get an I/O error message on the screen.

#Roland quick disk serial#

The Quick Disk uses a Z8440 Serial Input/Output Controller at a certain clock speed, it lacks the WR signal because it is synchronised with the clock of the Z80. This storage device can be used with any MSX generation, but when used with Turbo R machines, it's limited to the Z80 mode (which implies booting while pressing the "1" key until you can hear a beep). Both the drives and the media are quite rare now. This format never really caught on in the MSX world. A Quick Disk (QD) is a magnetic disk of 2.8" designed by Hitachi Maxell, Ltd, and the drive was designed by Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd in 1984.