SP-808 DANCE SAMPLING WORKSTATION

A New Tool for a New type of Musician

The SP-808 was designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of dance music producers, sampling musicians, DJ's and remix artists. Remixes involve sampling several elements, or phrases, from a song and recombining them with new sounds and parts_sometimes tweaking the original phrases beyond recogmtion. for this reason, the SP-808 combines powerful sampling features, sample "tweaking" effects and digital audio multitracking in one compact workstation. Once an SP-808 user has recorded his samples and stretched, shortened, tweaked and sync'd them as desired, he can use the multi- track section of the SP-808 to "build" his mix up. In this way, the SP-808 takes the place of several components essential to the sampling-based musician or remix artist: a sampler, effects processor and a stereo 4-track digital recorder.

  • Professional remix-oriented phrase sampler/hard disk audio recorder with 8 tracks (4 stereo audio tracks) and 16 assignable sample pads per bank (64 banks total)
  • Built-in zipdrive records all audio tracks and stores all samples on removable 100MB Zipdisks; 64 minutes/1024 samples can be stored on a single disk, ready for instant access
  • Remix-oriented features include automatic tempo calculation and display, resampling functions and time stretch functions
  • Onboard dance-music oriented effects include high-quality Roland reverb, chorus and delay effects as well as "Lo-fi," "Wah," "Isolator" and synth effects
  • Onboard Step Modulator effect simulates a classic Roland analog synth, modulating pitch, LFO, etc. in sequential steps
  • Revolutionary dual D-Beam Controller allows for effects and sample control via hand and body movement over infrared light beam
  • Three assignable control knobs for realtime effects control
  • Can be used as a basic digital multi-track recorder
  • Optional VO board transfers all audio in the digital domain and provides 6 additional analog outputs
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