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E-mu SP-1200 is a sampler that was released in August 1987 by E-mu Systems.

Like the product it was meant to replace, the SP-12, the SP-1200's intended use was as a drum machine and sequencer for dance music producers. However, its use as a phrase sampler produces a 'gritty' sound due to the machine's 26.04 kHz sampling rate, its SSM2044filterchips and its 12-bit sampling resolution. This distinctive sound, often said to capture the 'warmth' of vinyl recordings,^[1] has sustained demand for the SP-1200 more than thirty years after its discontinuation, despite the introduction of digital audio workstations and samplers/sequencers with far superior technical specifications, such as the Akai MPC.

The SP-1200 is strongly associated with hip hop's golden age. Its ability to construct the bulk of a song within one piece of portable gear, a first for the industry,^[2] reduced studio costs and increased creative control for hip-hop artists. In 2007, Ben Detrick explained, 'The machine rose to such prominence that its strengths and weaknesses sculpted an entire era of music: the crunchy digitized drums, choppy segmented samples, and murky filtered basslines that characterize the vintage New York sound are all mechanisms of the machine.'^[3]

Features[edit]

The SP-1200 can store up to 100 patterns, 100 songs, and has a 5,000-note maximum memory for drum sequences. It also has a mono mix output and eight individual outputs, MIDI in/out/through, SMPTE sync, and a metronome output. There is one button that allows you to select between banks A, B, C, and D, which gives the user easy access to each of the 32 sounds. The front panel contains several LED lights, buttons, and eight volume and pitch faders for each sound in the selected bank. Below each fader is a large button to initialize the sound, or select the sound for editing, and a switch to turn the trigger's velocity sensitivity off or on. The sequencer works in the familiar pattern-style of placing short consecutive sections of samples into a song. The user can easily add swing quantization and tempo changes. The sequencer can sync the tempo to SMPTE, MIDI, or analogue clock pulses and is also capable of synchronizing the tempo to a tapping finger with the tap-tempo button.'^[4]

Differences from the SP12[edit]

Unlike the SP12, the SP-1200 does not contain ROM-based samples; all samples are stored in volatile RAM and loaded from floppy disk. The AD/DA converters remain 12 bit, as 16 bit converters were still expensive and found only on high-end gear, such as the contemporary E-Mu Emulator 3 (EIII), which had a list price of over $15,000 USD. Maximum sampling time was doubled from the upgraded SP-12 Turbo, to over 10 seconds, but the maximum single sample was 2.5 seconds. The sample rate was reduced slightly also (from 27.5 kHz to 26.04 kHz) to maximize memory usage. The SP-1200 retains all of the I/O capabilities from the SP12, minus the cassette output and floppy disk I/O.^[4]

Technique[edit]

The limited sampling time of the SP-1200 was overcome within the late 1980s hip hop production circles by sampling 33⅓ rpm records at 45 rpm, with an additional pitch increase, then replaying the sample from the SP-1200 at a much slower speed (by the use of Multipitch and/or Tune/Decay edit functions). This expanded the total sampling time while at the same time decreasing the resolution. By the early 1990s, nearly every working hip hop producer had adopted this technique as industry standard until the advent of newer samplers such as Akai'sMPC60, which provided higher sampling rates and more sampling time.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ReSound Sound - How to Sound Fat like Pete Rock
2. ^Swash, Rosie. 'The SP-1200 sampler changes everything'. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
3. ^The Village Voice - The Dirty Heartbeat of the Golden Age
4. ^ ^abThe Emulator Archive

In this MPC Renaissance & MPC Studio tutorial, I’m going to show you how to hack the MPC Software to make Vintage Mode available and unrestricted in both the MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio! ‘Vintage Mode’ is the exclusive MPC Renaissance feature that attempts to emulate the sound of classic samplers such as the MPC60, MPC3000 and Emu SP1200 – it is applied across your main audio outputs using the dedicated ‘Vintage Mode’ button.

Naturally it’s a feature MPC Studio owners have lusted after, and thanks to some digging and experiments by MPC-Forums.com member AnSolas, Vintage Mode is now available to MPC Studio owners. But that’s not all; it’s also available to MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio owners for use as a standard VST plugin, just like any other VST effect. This means it can now be applied to separate tracks or pads and all four emulations can be utilised simultaneously.

Please note that some people are having problems getting this to work with MPC Software 1.7. It seems that you must have the vintage mode hack already installed in MPC Software 1.6 before you update to 1.7 – so if it’s not working for you in 1.7, uninstall 1.7, reboot your computer, install 1.6, apply the hack and then update to 1.7. At this point, only use ‘Scan New’ when adding new plugins.

So what is ‘Vintage Mode’ exactly?

Let’s clear up some confusion over exactly what ‘Vintage Mode’ is because many people have assumed it is a combination of hardware and software emulation. However, according to Akai’s Dan Gill, this isn’t the case. In that video (at around 2.18) he clearly states that Vintage Mode uses software models to achieve the emulation. So how is this software emulation achieved in the MPC Renaissance? By using VST plugins. These plugins can be found in the following locations on a Mac and PC:

• Mac: Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Akai > MPC > Fx
• PC: C:Program Files (x86)Akai ProMPCfx

These four VSTs should be there even if you only have an MPC Studio as they appear to form part of any MPC Software installation.

Installing the Vintage Mode VST Plugins

So to install the Vintage Mode emulations as unique standalone VST plugins in your MPC Studio and Renaissance, do the following (Mac screens used, but similar in a PC):

1. Copy the Vintage Mode VST plugins to a separate folder.

We want to create separate copies of these Vintage Mode VSTs, so navigate to the ‘Fx’ folder, select the four VSTs and copy them (CMD & C in a Mac or CTRL & C in Windows). Now, move back up to the parent ‘MPC’ folder and create a folder called ‘Vintage’ and paste your four VSTs into that folder:

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3. Add your new plugin folder in Preferences

In the MPC Software, go to Preferences > Plugins and add this folder ‘Vintage’ folder as a new plugin location:

Now hit ‘Rescan All’ or ‘Scan New’. At this point I suggest you quit the MPC Software and restart it (no need to reboot your system). A software restart is required otherwise I find the Ring Mode plugin either doesn’t show, or it’s the only one that shows.

4. Try it Out!

Load up an existing project and go to PROG EDIT > Effects. Select a pad with a sample assigned to it, turn ‘Inserts: ON’ and click the ‘down arrow’ for Insert 1:

from the pop up window, scroll down to the VST plugins list:

You should see that all four ‘Vintage Mode’ plugins are there. Select one and it will be applied to your pad. You can in theory assign all four to the same pad, or mix them up over multiple pads:

And of course, you can also use Vintage Mode plugins in the track mixer and across the master outs, just like any other VST plugin!

Will I break anything?

This is an unofficial hack, so no one can guarantee it will be bug free. If it causes issues, simply deselect your custom plugin folder from Preferences, rescan and restart the app.

Please note that these VST plugins do not appear to work in other applications.

What Do Akai Say About This?

Dan Gill from Akai had this to say on MPC-Forums

“our plan was eventually to allow vintage mode on individual tracks, but since this is untested, your mileage may vary. Also, as you see, there’s no GUI as yet. we’re looking at implementing this fully soon”.

Currently, there’s no confirmation as to whether or not this is officially going to make it on the MPC Studio as well – we’ll have to wait and see. Fingers crossed.

I thought Vintage Mode was hardware based?

You’re not alone – many people assumed this, including myself. Unfortunately much of this stems from a NAMM 2012 interview where an Akai rep mistakenly stated it was purely hardware based. Dan cleared it up in the same video linked to earlier (at around 1.20). The confusion stems from the fact that the Ren has an audio interface that utilises the same analog circuitry design found in 1990’s samplers such as the MPC3000. While this no doubt adds a unique character to the Ren’s audio output (even without the Vintage Mode button enabled), the actual sampler specific modelling is handled purely by the software plugins.

What’s this about Ring mode being a preset for the ‘Decimator’ Plug In?

As people soon discovered on MPC-Forums, if you insert the Emu SP1200 Ring Mode emulation to a pad or track and double click it, there is actually a very basic UI:

These three parameters are identical to those on the Decimator plugin that ships with the MPC Software, which seems to suggest that Ring Mode is nothing but a preset for that Decimator plug in. If that’s the case, I would suggest it is perhaps pointless installing the ‘SP120045emulator‘ VST – just use the existing Decimator and apply the above settings!

Will this hack work in later versions of the MPC Software?

We will have to see – if there is a problem with future versions I will update this article.

Edit: Yes indeed, it appears something has changed in 1.7, so it’s not possible to install the Vintage mode hack on ‘virgin’ MPC Software install. However there is a workaround – uninstall 1.7, reboot your computer, install 1.6, apply the hack as per this article, then update to 1.7 – if in the future you need to add more plugins, use ‘Scan New’ and not ‘Rescan All’ otherwise the plugin scanner in 1.7 will eject the existing vintage mode plugins.

Let me know in the comments if you have any problems or workarounds that don’t require going back to 1.6 temporarily.

Again, props to AnSolas for discovering this cool trick!

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