From mhernandez@clari.net Thu Jun 02 01:32:18 1994
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From: mhernandez@clari.net (Morag Hernández)
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Subject: 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.

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

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=== Morag Hernández ===
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Jun02.013218.5629@clari.net>, mhernandez@clari.net (Morag Hernández) 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.

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=== Anton Takahashi ===
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