this is how to get the SP1200 sound on an MPC1000

From what I know (I could be wrong) that sound doesn't come from some kind of SP1200 "sparkle". It happens with you sample something at 45rpm (to save memory) and slow it down.

Jel was not the first person to use this as "an effect", I don't know who you think you're kidding saying that.

Listen to T.R.O.Y. by Pete Rock or pretty much anything else Pete ever did on the SP.

From what I know (I could be wrong)

i'm just gonna stay on the safe side and say you're wrong, that way i don't have to retort any of the other stuff you said

except that pete's use of the effect and jel's are hugely different

and while i'm at it i'll just go against my word and finish this off. simply grabbing something up at 45 (pitching it up) and then slowing it down does not apply the sound i am talking about. if it were that easy i wouldn't have posted anything to begin with.

Do you own an SP1200?

I don't mean that on a computer or an MPC 1000 that sampling something at 45 rpm and slowing it down will cause the effect.

On the SP1200 it does though.

You're obviously new to this, I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but don't act like you know everything.

i appreciate that you don't mean to be insulting. however.

From what I know (I could be wrong) that sound doesn't come from some kind of SP1200 "sparkle"

I don't mean that on a computer or an MPC 1000 that sampling something at 45 rpm and slowing it down will cause the effect.
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On the SP1200 it does though.

ie an sp sparkle. which i am able to replicate damn near to the original.
i do not own an sp! good call on that one. but i am familiar enough with teh sound to recognize it elsewhere.

i already had a huge discussion with a pleasant gentleman from production techniques about whether being "close" to the sp sound meant sounding like it. we compromised that yes, to the untrained ear it has the same sound but to an sp user there are probably tiny differences.

our uniting point was how many average joes know what an sp sound like? pearls before swine, man - i'd rather give them white corn and save some money. they'd never know the difference, and if it sounds great, so be it.

and if any of my posts sound smart ass, i reaaaally can't help it. it's not me being offensive, it's my addiction to irony and cynicism. i love it dearly.

peace brethren

The timing on the SP1200 is killer.
Listen to Craig Mack Flava in Ya Ear.
That beat brought the East back and that was all SP, full, thick, bouncing.
Same way the MPC sequences midi tight because it's dedicated to do that, the SP also locks on a groove hard.
In addition to Pete Rock, early Cypress, Ulta Mag, BDP, Public Enemy - so much of what defined the golden age of hip hop was made solely on that machine (othertimes they coupled it with an S900 or 950).
And for the house heads, Todd Terry did a lot of great stuff on two SP's chained together, and Kenny Dope did "the bomb - these thoughts fall into my mind" on the SP and nothing else.
I'm an SP owner for eight years - it may be antiquated (try going back to floppies after working on the 1ks compact flash) but it can also work some magic.
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