From alee@illinois.edu Fri Sep 15 03:11:38 1995
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From: alee@illinois.edu (Anja Lee)
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Subject: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.
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).

Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum?

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Anja Lee
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From nsouza@tum.de Sat Sep 16 22:57:38 1995
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From: nsouza@tum.de (Nadine Souza)
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Sep15.031138.5856@illinois.edu>, alee@illinois.edu (Anja Lee) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

-- 
Nadine Souza -- Technische Universität München
"Marcus is not one man."