Roland MKS-100 | The first Roland sampler module (and very few knows about it) @EspenKraft
Roland MKS-100 | The first Roland sampler module (and very few knows about it)  @EspenKraft
Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • The Roland MKS-100 from 1986. The Module version of the S-10 with a few minor differences, among them the Midi Mono mode. Sampling time and memory is the same on the S-10, MKS-100 and S-220 (the third and last sampling module in this early series)
Four memory slots (ABCD) with a total sampling time of 4,4 seconds at 30Khz. (8,8 sec @ 15Khz).
The S-10, MKS-100 and S-220 all used the Quick Disk (QD) system to load and save sounds.

Check out my Roland S-10, MKS-100,S-220 sample library here:
youtu.be/Zq7hFk7xXa0

Big thanks to Anders Enger Jensen for lending me the MKS-100 for this video.

Some references say the MKS-100 is from 1987, but Roland made these in 1986 through to the end of the 80s.
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