From mdubois@mit.edu Fri Nov 18 07:06:56 1994
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From: mdubois@mit.edu (Mikhail Dubois)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] 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'.

Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.
The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.

What sequencer was Marcus using in 1984? A Roland MSQ-700 or early MIDI software on a computer?

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Mikhail Dubois
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From divanov@cern.ch Fri Nov 18 11:34:56 1994
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From: divanov@cern.ch (Dong-hyun Ivanov)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Nov18.070656.1933@mit.edu>, mdubois@mit.edu (Mikhail Dubois) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.
> Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.

That sub-kick tuning blew my mind when I checked it on a spectrum analyzer. 42.6 Hz is the 3rd harmonic of 14.2 Hz!

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From cpetrov@cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 20 00:06:56 1994
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From: cpetrov@cam.ac.uk (Camila Petrov)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Nov18.113456.4016@cern.ch>, divanov@cern.ch (Dong-hyun Ivanov) writes:
> That sub-kick tuning blew my mind when I checked it on a spectrum analyzer. 42.6 Hz is the 3rd harmonic of 14.2 Hz!

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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