From tsanchez@illinois.edu Sat Mar 19 22:55:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!tsanchez From: tsanchez@illinois.edu (Tomas Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Mar19.225549.3670@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 22:55:49 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. 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). What sequencer was Marcus using in 1984? A Roland MSQ-700 or early MIDI software on a computer? -- === Tomas Sánchez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From ckarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Mar 20 21:08:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!ckarlsson From: ckarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Callum Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Mar20.210849.9586@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 21:08:49 GMT References: <1994Mar19.225549.3670@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar19.225549.3670@illinois.edu>, tsanchez@illinois.edu (Tomas Sánchez) 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. 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! -- Callum Karlsson | ckarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: FD2D ECB5 DFA6 266C "Keep the channels open." From asantos@stanford.edu Tue Mar 22 01:37:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!asantos From: asantos@stanford.edu (Andrei Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Mar22.013749.9894@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 01:37:49 GMT References: <1994Mar19.225549.3670@illinois.edu> <1994Mar20.210849.9586@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar20.210849.9586@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, ckarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Callum Karlsson) 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. -- Andrei Santos Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."