SP-1200: The genesis of modern Hip Hop production
3 min readMay 8, 2019
Two historically significant drum machines released during the mid 1980’s were the E-MU SP-12 and E-MU SP-1200 in 1985 and 1987 respectively.
Conceived by American sound equipment company E-MU Systems, these “samplers” were essential to the development of Hip Hop production, especially the SP-1200: its four memory banks enabled users to combine multiple sample loops. This gave…
