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literally a rack-mounted S-10. the MKS-100 and the S10 share the same main circuit board, with the S10 having some extra parts on it, I assume to read the keyboard.
I picked mine up used for USD $50. The quickdisk wasn't working quite right when it arrived. (a common problem, from what I hear.) although the previous owner had replaced the belt, (most common cause of quickdisk failure,) the head was out of alignment. It could write and read back disks it wrote, but wasn't able to read back disks written on most other machines. I was able to get it back in to alignment with a slight twist of a screwdriver, and now it works as originally designed. I could finally able to read all the weird samples on the disk collections I purchased on *bay.
it's by no means a great sampler, and if you're looking for a true workstation, you'd be pretty limited by it, but it does have its quirky charms, and I have fun with it. operation is about as intuitive as is possible given the limitations of small LCD screen.
the sampling rate is selectable between 30 and 15kHz, although at 15kHz you get close to telephone-call quality. very RAM limited. only about 4 seconds at 30kHz. (double for 15kHz.)
as mentioned previously, the filters are kind of strange to work with as well. it's all non-real-time: load your sample, set the parameters, wait a few seconds to run the filter, then see if it came out all right. if all is not OK, load the sample back off of quickdisk and try again. _not_ a live-tweakable machine.
there are much better machines out there: the quickdisk mechanism is problematic; sample manipulation and editing is tedious; only eight-voice polyphony; only four sample banks; 12bits 30kHz sampling. maybe I'm a masochist, but I like it. :)
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