Gear · drum machine
E-mu SP-12
Records it appears on · 3
- People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest · Album, 1990
- Samples, sequencing and production · InstrumentReportedA 12-bit sampling drum machine to which elements were locked via SMPTE timecode during the album sessions.
- My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
En Vogue · Funky Divas, 1992
- Beat · InstrumentReportedOne of the drum machines combined to make the underlying beat.
- True Faith
New Order · Substance 1987, 1987
- Drums and percussion · InstrumentReportedHague thinks the computer clocked the SP12 and that all the drum tracks on both songs were done on it.
Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.
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Inphonik RX1200
instrument
An emulation of the SP-1200, the SP-12's successor. You load your own samples.
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