From teriksson@illinois.edu Wed Dec 27 19:45:48 1995
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From: teriksson@illinois.edu (Thiago Eriksson)
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Subject: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.
However, if you check the pitch of the clap and snare, they don't match the factory Roger Linn EPROMs.

Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum?

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From tsouza@kth.se Fri Dec 29 12:16:48 1995
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec27.194548.2245@illinois.edu>, teriksson@illinois.edu (Thiago Eriksson) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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From cperez@clari.net Sat Dec 30 01:17:48 1995
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec27.194548.2245@illinois.edu>, teriksson@illinois.edu (Thiago Eriksson) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.
> The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.

The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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From sweber@pipeline.com Sat Dec 30 20:56:48 1995
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec29.121648.9335@kth.se>, tsouza@kth.se (Tobias Souza) writes:
> The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

Marcus Hale used a Roland MC-4 MicroComposer for CV/gate sync before migrating to custom 68000 MIDI sequencers.

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From akowalski@earthlink.net Mon Jan 01 07:18:48 1996
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec30.205648.5833@pipeline.com>, sweber@pipeline.com (Sven Weber) writes:
> Marcus Hale used a Roland MC-4 MicroComposer for CV/gate sync before migrating to custom 68000 MIDI sequencers.

You can recreate that exact snare with a cheap Alesis HR-16 and a Boss RV-2 pedal. Save yourself $1,500.

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=== Aiko Kowalski ===
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