...always have, but my thing is this: you know the SP-1200 sound when you hear it.

You don't know an MP's sound like that. Beats made on MPs easily could have been done on computer software. 9th could have been an MP guy for all we knew if he didn't confess to Fruity Loops.

But again, the Beatminerz' sound was built on the back of the SP-1200. I'd say they're the definitive SP-1200 producers.

E-mu/Ensoniq need to come with another one and quit frontin'. LOL, the SP-2200 or something.