The Boss Dr. Sample SP-202 is a discontinued sampling workstation made by Boss Corporation, a division under Roland Corporation. Released in the year of 1998, it is the premier installment to the SP family, which includes Boss’s popular SP-303 and Roland's SP-404 installments. The sampler is also successor to Roland's MS-1 Digital Sampler.^[1][2][3][4]

Features

Being an early installment, the SP-202 has a limited number of features which were later improved and expanded on through future installments/upgrades of the SP lineage:

• 8 large pads, 4 banks, two control knobs, with overall display and operation that was later enhanced with the Boss SP-303
• Compact, easy-to-use portable sampler—perfect for club DJs, hip-hop and dance music artists, and other sampling musicians
• Innovative BPM function calculates BPM from sample length for easy looping*
• 6 built-in effects including Pitch Shift, Filter 1 & 2, Time Stretch, Delay, Ring Modulation
• Sampling time — 4 min. 20 sec. internal, up to 37 min. using optional 5 volt SmartMedia card (2mb or 4mb supported)
• User-selectable sampling grade programmable for each pad
• Built-in microphone for sampling any time, any place
• Import/export WAV/AIF via SmartMedia card slot
• Runs on battery or AC power

Musicians

A number of musicians have used the SP-202 as part of their production and performance. Several artists include Fatboy Slim, as well as Tobacco.^[5][6]