From vsilva@netcom.com Thu Jan 12 21:28:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!netcom!vsilva From: vsilva@netcom.com (Valeria Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Jan12.212851.8033@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:28:51 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? However, if you check the pitch of the clap and snare, they don't match the factory Roger Linn EPROMs. Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum? -- Valeria Silva SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From smoreau@kiae.su Sat Jan 14 00:37:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!smoreau From: smoreau@kiae.su (Steve Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Jan14.003751.7643@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 00:37:51 GMT References: <1995Jan12.212851.8033@netcom.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.212851.8033@netcom.com>, vsilva@netcom.com (Valeria Silva) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? Marcus Hale used a Roland MC-4 MicroComposer for CV/gate sync before migrating to custom 68000 MIDI sequencers. -- Steve Moreau US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."