Our SP has been around SFM headquarters for as long as we've existed, and it was only a matter of time before we got around to sampling this beast! The first thing we captured was the factory drums "Standard Traps" disk. Far from what you'd describe as a "trap kit" today, these drums are a pseudo-acoustic, Linn-esc 80s disco kit and they sound so fresh! We reached for an API preamp for its sharp and classic transient response, recording directly to tape (multi-sampling every hit with 16 SP tunings) and no additional processing was neccesary.

We also spent weeks creating custom drum sounds - incorporating drum machines such as the 606, 707, 808, 909, DX, vinyl drums (sometimes pitching up the record to 45rpm and tuning it down in the SP), and more - multi-sampling all hits at different tunings. Leaving some things dry, and massively processing others with compressors, filters, synths, and saturators, we sampled different outputs of the machine. All recorded to tape.

And finally, we sampled some synths (Juno 60, Polysix, DX-100) because the SP creates gnarly overtones for bass and magical fairy dust on house chords. The DX and SP especially liked each other.

With only 10 seconds of overall sample time, and just 2.5 seconds maximum sample time per pad, we recorded different notes for each synth patch, tuned them every which way, ran it through our super warm Rupert-Neve designed ISA 430 Mk2, occasionally hitting tape, and into the computer, where we mapped, looped, and put finishing touches on the patches. This was a laborious (torturous?) process to say the least, but well worth it!

After sifting through SP synth patches and custom drums for weeks, we narrowed it down to an all-killer- no-filler set of instruments for Ableton, Logic & Kontakt, so that you can enjoy everything that is beautiful about this sampler while avoiding all the idiosyncrasies that make you want to gouge your eyes out!

Factory Drums:
400 Original SP-1200 "Standard Traps" Drums with 16 pitches of each drum hit recorded to tape. 24bit WAV
Boogie / Linn / DX style pseudo-acoustic 80s drum kit
Fully mapped Ableton Live 9.5 Drum Rack with 25 pads of drums, each containing 16 SP-1200 pitches per pad
12 fully mapped Kontakt 3.5+ (Does not work on Kontakt Player) and Logic Instruments
24bit WAV includes "loud" and "quiet" versions, individual hits, and 2 cherry-picked 16 sound kits

Custom Synths:
11 custom synth instruments built from sampling a Juno 60, Polysix and DX100 into the SP-1200
Fully mapped for Ableton Live 9.5, Kontakt 3.5+ (does not work on Kontakt Player) and Logic
24bit WAV labeled with note name
Included with both purchases

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