Volumes are easily set with the faders and sound can be individually assigned to any of the eight outputs. You can get around this problem with the Repeat key which, when held down along with a drum trigger, causes the sound to auto-repeat at the current quantisation value, although it takes practice to start and stop the roll at the right point. The triggers are heavy and, with the passage of time, inclined to stick. Below each fader is a large button for triggering the sound, or selecting it for editing, and there's a global switch to turn the trigger's velocity sensitivity on or off. A small button allows you to step between banks A, B, C and D giving easy access to the 32 sounds. It also has a mono mix output and eight individual outputs, MIDI in/out/thru, SMPTE sync, and a metronome output.Д¬ontrols The front panel is littered with LEDs and buttons with eight chunky faders controlling the volume and pitch of each sound in the bank.

The machine is very highly regarded in Dance and Hip Hop circles, for both its sound and beats.ДЄdditional Features The SP1200 can store up to 100 patterns, 100 songs and has a 5000 note minimum memory for drum sequences. There can be up to 32 user sampled sounds spread over the 8 voices, but no single sample can be longer than one sample bank (2.5 seconds). The sample rate was reduced from the SP-12 27,500 Hz to 26,040 Hz, to enable the 384 Kbytes of memory to take 10 seconds of samples. Sample Time The sampling time was upgraded to twice that of the SP-12 Turbo memory, providing 10.07 seconds of sample time within four banks of 2.5 seconds. The SP1200 does away with ROM based sounds, and relies totally on a floppy disk based sample library which is loaded into RAM.

Everything else on the SP1200 is exactly the same as the SP-12.ДЎ2 High The SP1200 kept with the 12-bit crunch of the SP-12, as 16-bits was neither necessary nor cost effective (the 16-bit EIII had just been launched at $10,000+ in 1987).

The SP-12 Moves On The mid to late 1980's was a great time for dedicated sampling drum machines, and after the roar away success of the SP-12, E-mu Systems made a number of important upgrades and released the SP1200 in the summer of 1987.

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