s612.html).Īnyone still interested in archiving the Akai s612 sound library from quick disks?
#Akai quick disk update
I'm planning on update it with a gotek drive, or selling and getting an XD-280 (.
The md280 came with around 50 quick disks, but have an error loading the disks. I managed to get an s612 & md280 last week. I would even be open to partnering or forming a collective in the case of not completing the collection myself. This would include any hardware, repair, software and doodads I might need to make this so. The only selfish aspect would be that the funds would help me to acquire the physical collection But after that any funds left over would go toward preservation and archiving and making it public.
#Akai quick disk archive
I'm interested in acquiring the entire collection of Akai S612 sample library Quick Disks.īut in the end my goal is to own and archive the entire collection and make all the samples available in different formats online. Incidentally, I think at least some of the original factory samples for the 612 (and certainly for later models) were created by my dear old friend the late Stephen Howell aka Hollow Sun who tragically passed away a few years back. I am, however, not willing/able to add legacy commercial samples to the library for obvious reasons. The new XD-280 system comes with a USB stick pre-loaded with over 150 new samples I made for the project with the aim to add many more over time. Incidentally, I am able to transfer QD disks over to HxC disk images if any 612 owners have large disk collections they want to transfer using a special "hot-swapping" rig I built for the XD-280 project.Īs far as I know JF Del Nero has already written a utility to extract the raw samples from the XD-280 disk images. Just a quick link to my XD-280 Disk Emulator for the S612 which has been proving extremely popular: Take a look at Hideawaystudios thread on Gearslutz.
#Akai quick disk mods
You could probably sell those, seeing as the S612 is definitely a newly popular machine with all the mods now available for it.