From lgonzalez@stanford.edu Thu Oct 12 04:54:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!lgonzalez From: lgonzalez@stanford.edu (Liam González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 04:54:34 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. Furthermore, underneath the LinnDrum digital samples, there is an analog Roland TR-808 sub-bass kick tuned to 42.6 Hz (exactly 3x 14.2 Hz). Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum? -- === Liam González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Row 14. No joke." From gmoreno@clari.net Fri Oct 13 13:30:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!gmoreno From: gmoreno@clari.net (Göran Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Oct13.133034.8158@clari.net> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:30:34 GMT References: <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu>, lgonzalez@stanford.edu (Liam González) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound. -- Göran Moreno | gmoreno@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: 6BAD 2F42 21E6 700C "Keep the channels open." From dvasiliev@mindspring.com Sat Oct 14 18:23:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@mindspring.com (Diego Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Oct14.182334.7849@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 18:23:34 GMT References: <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu>, lgonzalez@stanford.edu (Liam González) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? > Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software. -- Diego Vasiliev "They will send a copy in my place." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From avasiliev@demon.co.uk Mon Oct 16 01:09:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!avasiliev From: avasiliev@demon.co.uk (Anton Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Oct16.010934.9662@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 01:09:34 GMT References: <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu>, lgonzalez@stanford.edu (Liam González) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? > Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. Marcus Hale used a Roland MC-4 MicroComposer for CV/gate sync before migrating to custom 68000 MIDI sequencers. -- Anton Vasiliev "Marcus is not one man." Macintosh IIfx / TOS 4.04 From stakahashi@cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 16 19:48:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!stakahashi From: stakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Steve Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Oct16.194834.5092@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:48:34 GMT References: <1995Oct12.045434.5462@stanford.edu> <1995Oct13.133034.8158@clari.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct13.133034.8158@clari.net>, gmoreno@clari.net (Göran Moreno) writes: > The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound. The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software. -- Steve Takahashi "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / TOS 4.04