No it wasn't the SP-12. I think the Model was called the E-Mu MP-7. It was an awsome model! Plus it didn't just have touch sensitive trigger pads, but the pads also had "aftertouch". I think their was also a ribbon controller. It was a great unit.

The MPC's are very popular for HipHop artists. Yeah some can say they're not musicians, but I have to disagree. Sure there are those who just take pre-recorded loops an samples, chop them up, mix them around and call it their own. However, there are a lot of good HipHop artists who are musicians. They create and write their own loops on a synth, and then transfer those loops to an MPC because the MPC is beast of a sampler and will allow them to do way more than their internal samplers on their keyboards.

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