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hi i really need quikdisk for my s10!!!!!
need samples!!!!
help very hard to find.......

Don't know where you are based, but there's someone in the US with some for sale on ebay..
Item number: 130356774666

They are a rarity, even rarer to find 'sample libraries', so be thankful to find any, even if they are blank.
I had a Akai S-700 sampler, it used them too, even at the time the disks where hard to get hold of.
I seem to remember each side stored a 'massive' 128K of data.

thanks for the info i post a bid on them!!!!
u been very helpfull,hop to win the auction!!!!!
s 700 used the same disks?
have you got some?
regard
giack

It did, but I sold that many moons ago, along with it's disks. Sorry.
Good luck with the auction, I seem to remember the seller has a few available and is selling them off in packs of 5.

The Quick Disk has very short lived, the 3.5" disk became standard...

I see I am not the only one looking for these discs. I need to know, if the smith-corona 2.8 data discs are the sme format. Also, where can I get a drive.. I can download all the files from the internet. I just need a way to write them to a 2.8 disc. Also, is it possible to convert the existing 2.8 drive to a 3.5? or would the formatting be wrong. Or would it be easier to use a midi controller and just plug in to the keyboard. just looking for options for the Roland s10 I aquired. It wont play a thing without the discs.

The disk you mention is a quick disk..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk
The format never took off, so finding anything today is more luck than anything.

Finding a 2.8" quick disk drive? Did such a thing exist for a PC?

Changing it to a 3.5"? Doubt it's possible, to be honest. The lack of disk controller, and cable issues.
I did wonder if MIDI SDS (Sample Data Standard) would be possible to use, but sadly that's a dead end too.
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/samk0789.html

About the only use I can think of for yours is a simple device to sample sounds of your own, handy for 'lo-fi' stuff.
Perhaps as a MIDI controller keyboard too.

If you want to get more serious about your sampling an old Akai, Roland (S-50, S-750/760/770), or Yamaha might be a route to go.
Since computers are now common place, most people use them for their sampling needs. The hardware sampler is a rare thing these days. The ones that are around tend to be specialised machines.
That said the older samplers tend to go quite cheaply on ebay.
Bare in mind, even the humble 3.5" floppy disk is getting hard to source now too, not nearly as bad as the 2.8".
I've a S-750, it's connected via SCSI to a 100Mb SCSI Zip drive (another dying disk format), works well, it can even boot the S-750. There was an optional memory expansion board, I would seriously recommend that if you go this route, that the board is already fitted as finding one today, with memory would be as easy as finding a 2.8" disk drive.


Sorry I don't have good news..