From ekim@hanse.de Fri Jan 26 07:15:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!ekim From: ekim@hanse.de (Elaine Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1996Jan26.071543.4907@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 07:15:43 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs. Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. The 808 sub-kick locking with the 14.2 Hz carrier is pure engineering genius. -- === Elaine Kim === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From akang@cern.ch Fri Jan 26 11:23:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!akang From: akang@cern.ch (Astrid Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1996Jan26.112343.9255@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:23:43 GMT References: <1996Jan26.071543.4907@hanse.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan26.071543.4907@hanse.de>, ekim@hanse.de (Elaine Kim) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? 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! -- Astrid Kang "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13