- Writer: Inphonik
- Product: RX1200
- Model: 1.0.1 RETAiL
- Format: VST/AU/AAX
The sound of a real legend
Meet the RX1200, our 12-bit sampler instrument based mostly on the E-mu SP-1200, a landmark sampler designed by Dave Rossum and launched by E-mu Techniques in 1987.
With its gritty digital sound for sequencing fats beats, the power to construct musical phrases with 32 pattern slots, and its heat filters for effectively capturing bass traces from vinyl, the SP-1200 is a monument to beatmaking that gave music producers big new potentialities.
We’re honored to indicate you our tackle a groundbreaking machine that no much less helped the emergence of recent kinds of contemporary music, bringing the basic strategy to beatmaking into your DAW.
The RX1200 is a beatmaker’s sandbox software. It’s a one-of-a-kind sampler able to encourage your productions with experimentation, comfortable accidents, and that pretty distinctive lofi sound.
Nailing that sound
On the coronary heart of the RX1200 is our dedication to faithfully reproducing the signature sound of the SP-1200. Moreover the apparent 12-bit decision, the 26.041 kHz pattern charge, and the SSM2044 low-pass filter emulation, the RX1200 completely matches the aliased down-pitch tuning that delivers the SP-1200. With its distinctive grit, crunch, and heat, the RX1200 places the inimitable 12-bit sound into your music.
The 1200 sound
We made no compromise with the sound to ship the digital tone, the filter and the achieve that made the SP-1200 a timeless basic.
A novel workflow
Primarily based on gigantic faders for adjusting tune, quantity, and decay, the RX1200 places you right into a targeted mindset for making beats.
Profusion of samples
With 32 slots throughout 4 banks of 8 pads, you’re good to construct complicated constructions and preparations on a single RX1200 instrument.
A streamlined interface
Reasonably than making a 1:1 copy of the SP-1200, we’ve designed the RX1200 as a extra simple instrument with a straightforward studying curve.
By eradicating the onboard sequencer, we’ve constructed our imaginative and prescient of an audio plug-in that integrates flawlessly with any DAW and places pattern efficiency on the forefront of your inventive course of.
A versatile pattern editor
It will be a disgrace to not make the most of your pc mouse. The pattern editor makes it simple to browse, truncate, normalize, reverse, loop and assign your sounds throughout the 4 banks of 8 pads. It’s an environment friendly and intuitive solution to craft your individual presets for constructing your grooves.
Able to play
Full of a Manufacturing unit Assortment of 900+ samples constructed into 50 presets, the RX1200 is able to carry out out of the field.
The Manufacturing unit Assortment comprises 122 kicks, 139 snares, 169 hi-hats, 47 toms, 32 cymbals, 120 percs, 50 FX, 32 bass, 41 keys, 151 slices, and 33 others.
Within the subsequent few months, a sequence of recent free collections, sorted by theme, will likely be added recurrently to increase your RX1200 expertise.
The distinctive 1200 lofi sound
To avoid wasting sampling reminiscence, SP-1200 house owners typically sampled 33 RPM information at 45 RPM, after which tuned down the pattern on the SP-1200 to revive the unique pace. This system doubled the sampling time however lowered the sound high quality. Surprisingly, this altered sound grew to become fashionable amongst hip hop producers and plenty of best-selling information of the 90s used the SP-1200.
True to the unique options
- 12-bit / 26.041 kHz sound processing
- 32 pattern slots
- Tune/decay/combine settings
- 8 assignable outputs
- Switchable 4-pole resonant SSM2044 low-pass filter
- Enter amp stage modeling
Prolonged options
- Unrestricted pattern size
- Output channel setting for notice teams and polyphony
- Stereo and mono pattern playback
- Panning knobs in Combine mode
- Non-destructive visible pattern editor
- Chromatic play mode
The legend’s origin story
The very first digital samplers just like the NEDco Synclavier II and the Fairlight CMI, invented within the late 70s, opened the gate to a brand new world of sound manipulation. However sadly, these machines have been so costly that they may solely be bought to large skilled studios and have been reserved to the most important artists.
In that context, an organization named E-mu launched the Emulator, a promising challenger with a lower cost level. Then, with the impulse of probably the most progressive engineers of Silicon Valley gathered by lead engineer Dave Rossum and lead designer Scott Wedge, E-mu produced the Drumulator (drum machine), the Emulator II, then in 1985, a brand new sampler/drum machine priced under the $3000 bar, known as the SP-12.
Standing for Sampling Percussion at 12 bits, the SP-12 had 48kb of reminiscence and will file as much as 1.2 seconds of audio. As well as, a 192kb growth module known as Turbo was bought and expanded the sampling time to five seconds. In 1987, E-mu improved the idea and launched the SP-1200, with new further options and twice the reminiscence.