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PTF SP-12 SAMPLER 7 days free

Raw, Crunchy, Unmistakable 12-Bit Magic.

  • Original Firmware & Sound: Built on real Z-80 code with 24 factory sounds extracted straight from the original EPROMs.
  • Neural-Modelled Analog Stage: Captures the exact dynamic response, warmth, and crunch of the iconic 12-bit D/A converters.
  • Mac & Windows Compatible: Full cross-platform support for macOS and Windows systems.
  • DAW Ready: Seamless integration as VST3, Audio Unit (AU), or Standalone.
PTF SP-12 SAMPLER
PTF SP-12 SAMPLER Windows and macOS
€ 53,00
Try free for 7 days
Twelve bits. 27,500 a second. The machine's own operating system.

Not a sample pack and not an impression. PTF-SP12 runs the instrument's own operating system on an emulated Z-80: it scans the real key matrix, lights the real lamps and draws its own display. Every sound goes through a twelve-bit converter at 27,500 samples a second and an output stage captured from the hardware as a neural network. Drop a sound on a pad and it comes back the way it would have in 1985.

It runs the machine's own code

PTF-SP12 does not imitate the SP-12's behaviour. It runs the instrument's operating system, version 2.6 of 1987, on an emulated Z-80. Every button you press closes a contact in the real key matrix, and the firmware decides what it means. The display is the machine's own, drawn from its own character memory, and the lamps are the bits of its own lamp word. Nothing on the panel behaves the way it does because the plug-in says so. It behaves that way because the SP-12 does.

It runs the machine's own code

Captured, not modelled

Everything you play goes through the machine's converter at 27,500 samples a second, the rate the hardware ran at. That is where the weight comes from: a short word, a slow clock, and a top end that rolls off into grit. After it sits the analogue output stage, captured from the real unit and run as a neural network, so the saturation and the small asymmetries are the machine's own. Drop a clean sound on a pad and it comes back heavier, darker and sitting in the mix the way 1985 records do.

Captured, not modelled
Specification
FormatsStandalone
SystemsWindows 10 and later, macOS 10.11 and later
ArchitectureApple silicon and Intel
TrialSeven days, everything unlocked
Licence2 computers
UpdatesIncluded. New versions appear in your account.
RefundSeven days, no reasons needed
The real machine's operating system, version 2.6 of 1987, running on an emulated Z-80: the real key matrix, the real lamps, the real display
Twelve-bit converter at 27,500 samples a second
Output stage captured from the hardware and run as a neural network, two captures: SP-12 and SP-1200
Eight velocity pads, four banks24 factory sounds and eight user pads
Drop any WAV or AIFF on a padit is summed to mono, resampled to 27,500 and cut to twelve bits on the way in
Sample from the input through the machine's own Sample module: threshold, arm, force, level
The sequencersegments and songs, swing, auto-correct, step programming, tempo and mix changes, metronome
Loads and saves Commodore 1541 .d64 disk images, so real machine disks load straight in and anything you save plays on the hardware
Eight converter controls on the faders, all automatable: TUNE, BITS, FILTER, NOISE, HP FILTER,
RESONANCE, DECAY, SPREAD
Per padtune, decay, level and output channel; two pads on one channel choke each other, as on the machine
Plays from MIDI from note 36 upward with velocity; locks to the host's tempo and transport over MIDI sync
SAMPLE STOP keypress once to stop the last sample played, hold a second to stop them all
VST3 and Audio Unit on macOS, VST3 on Windows, Standalone on both
UniversalIntel and Apple silicon, macOS 10.11 or later; Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
One serial key for two computers, works offline once activated, seven-day trial
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PTF SP-12 SAMPLER

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€ 53,00
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