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Very nice budget sampler. Very well laid out interface for such a small display and scare button set, but ofcourse you'd rather edit it from a PC over MIDI which is also possible. Very good hardware quality, built for touring! Mine is for 110V but one time I accidentily plugged it to 240V. Zap! The entire sampler died, I thought. But no, the only thing I had to do was to replace the fuse, and voilà, it's working again! Not too many synths would stand that.
From a programmers point of view, I must say that the SP has an intelligent OS and architecture. I allways get pissed of when something would be possible to do only it's not because of lazy/stupid OS programmers. Not here. You can do all your stereo tricks and stuff and it has a great sample offset feature, and a nice modulation matrix.
Of course it should have had resonance (the SP+ does) at least highpass filtering (it's actually possible to do the latter through a trick).
I use mine mostly as a versatile drum module. You can make the samples react very well to velocity and such things, and since you get four mono outputs (configurable, again, thanks to a good OS) you can run it through all kinds of processing.
I must confess though, I got mine very cheap, and probably I wouldn't be so impressed if I'd had to pay more. Afterall, any PC can do most of the things it can nowadays. Still, for having a simple and steady drum box with exchangable sounds, it's perfect, and it does sound alot better than your average soundcard. Only 1HE also. And unlike most manufactorers, Peavey do care about their old gear customers.
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