Description: Vintage Original E-Mu SP1200 Sampling Drum Machine Model 7030. The SP-1200 was THE drum machine & sampler combo of legendary status among old school rap and hip hop artists from the eighties and nineties. It is similar to today's Akai MPC samplers - it is a sampler plus drum machine. It has limited sampling specs: 26.040 kHz and 12-bit resolution. However the dirtiness of that sound is great for hip hop and house music. They say it sounds like "old vinyl"... It features groove quantizing and a disk drive for sample storage. As an upgraded version of the 1985 SP-12, the SP-1200 focused on its coolest feature - sampling. The preset drum sounds of the SP-12 were omitted, leaving room for up to 32 user samples of your own custom sampled and edited drum sounds. Although this machine was originally released in 1987, E-mu has reissued them again and again due to popular demand. They continued producing them until they ran out of the SSM filter chips they used, around 1998. It was just too legendary to give up as it was THE beat machine for old-school rap and hip hop! In 1997 a final reissued model was released with a cooler looking all-black case. With the SP-1200 it's easy and fun to grab those sliders and tune or tweak your sampled drum sounds all around! It is used by Roni Size, Todd Terry, Freddy Fresh, Daft Punk, Phil Collins, and The Prodigy. Polyphony - 8 voiceSampler - 26.040 kHz, 12 bit sampling; 4 2.5 second blocks (10 seconds); 256 KB memoryPatterns - 100Songs - 100Keyboard - 8 Touch PadsMemory - 32 patchesControl - MIDI, SMPTEDate Produced - 1987 - 1998
Price: 5500 USD
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
End Time: 2024-02-17T09:15:01.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: E MU
Form Factor: Tabletop
Type: Sampler
Number of Channels: 8
Color: Black w/Grey Face
Input/Output Ports: MIDI I/O
Model: 7030
Analog/Digital: Analog & Digital
MPN: Does Not Apply
Number of Pads: 8
Number of Sounds: Over 20
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States