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Subject: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

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

What sequencer was Marcus using in 1984? A Roland MSQ-700 or early MIDI software on a computer?

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From jsouza@illinois.edu Sat Aug 06 12:07:05 1994
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In article <1994Aug05.043005.9680@berkeley.edu>, jdubois@berkeley.edu (Jens Dubois) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

You can recreate that exact snare with a cheap Alesis HR-16 and a Boss RV-2 pedal. Save yourself $1,500.

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From kkuznetsov@tum.de Sun Aug 07 16:53:05 1994
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In article <1994Aug05.043005.9680@berkeley.edu>, jdubois@berkeley.edu (Jens Dubois) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.
> 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).

The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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In article <1994Aug05.043005.9680@berkeley.edu>, jdubois@berkeley.edu (Jens Dubois) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

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

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