#Mitsumi quick disk usb software#
run the software and initiate sample transfer from the software.ĭISCLAIMER: Please try the following at your own risk. Copy the editor files over to your virtual hard drive. Then you need to configure the midi port in the steem preferences.
#Mitsumi quick disk usb Pc#
If you want to do sample dumps, you need a PC (or an original atari st) get Steem. I suspect you need to tweak your QD drive motor or get the proper belt. I could certainly imagine there being bad data in there that gets transferred as errors in the samples, but I don't believe there is much error checking involved that will prevent a sample loading. I think catastrophic failure is pretty rare with QD. If you didn't get exactly the right belt (super famicom drive replacement belt) or spend some time tweaking the motor speed, you may not be reading correctly perfectly fine disks. The power supply and data cabling for the Mitsumi drives are completely different from a regular floppy.ĭid you read through the info at this page, especially the part at the end?Īfter reviving my QD drive, all the sample disks I had were fine, no bad data. I needed a reliable working drive so I can come up with a way to replace the Quick Disk with a floppy drive emulator board (probably the HxC board). I owe a large favor to the synth Gods and I fear it's going to be steep if/when the come to collect. The odds were pretty stacked against any sort of revival. I had no idea the drive interface even worked at this point but I was able to get the thing working, saving samples, verifying the saves and reloading them.
I just unplugged it and plugged in the Yamaha drive. I wont even touch the drive in this thing it's so horrid. Cleaned that up and put on a suitable elastic band, then dug into the MD-280. I sacrificed a dead MDF-1 I had laying around, pulled the drive out of it and discovered (quelle surprise!) that the drive belt had rotted away to goo. This thing looked like a family of pigeons made a home and shit in it for a decade. I should have left it behind, I should have known better. I just spent the better part of a day reviving an MD-280 that I got for 'free' with my Akai S_612. Thankfully I think there's only a few musical things that have these in them (Akai S-612/MD-280, Akai S-700, Roland S-10, and the bizarre Yamaha MDF-1 MIDI disk drive, anything else?) *Unreliable, drives and disks can just up and die at any time - CHECK *Drive is notoriously finicky wrt head alignment, motor speed, gearing - CHECK *Drive is belt driven and the belt is made of a material that disintegrates into nasty black goo over time - CHECK *No sliding latch to protect the disk surface from dirt and dust - CHECK *Nonstandard disk size and format - CHECK Take everything that was good about floppy drive technology and throw it out the window. Anyone had the misfortune of using Mitsumi 2.8" Quick Disks? They are quite possibly the biggest technology turd of the 80's (at least for synths).
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