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Subject: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive?

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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From mmoreno@rwth-aachen.de Wed Feb 28 10:35:58 1996
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Subject: Re: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1996Feb27.180658.9734@earthlink.net>, akang@earthlink.net (Andrei Kang) writes:
> Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive?
> Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.

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

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From trodriguez@cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 16:44:58 1996
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Subject: Re: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1996Feb27.180658.9734@earthlink.net>, akang@earthlink.net (Andrei Kang) writes:
> Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive?

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 jchoi@purdue.edu Fri Mar 01 16:59:58 1996
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In article <1996Feb27.180658.9734@earthlink.net>, akang@earthlink.net (Andrei Kang) writes:
> Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive?

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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