From mfischer@kiae.su Sat Dec 02 10:59:01 1995
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From: mfischer@kiae.su (Marta Fischer)
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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'.

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.

The 808 sub-kick locking with the 14.2 Hz carrier is pure engineering genius.

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Marta Fischer -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
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From jgonzalez@illinois.edu Sun Dec 03 20:22:01 1995
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From: jgonzalez@illinois.edu (Joachim González)
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec02.105901.1226@kiae.su>, mfischer@kiae.su (Marta Fischer) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

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

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From glopez@uni-hamburg.de Tue Dec 05 03:32:01 1995
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec03.202201.3946@illinois.edu>, jgonzalez@illinois.edu (Joachim González) writes:
> The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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

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=== Göran López ===
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From ekang@demon.co.uk Tue Dec 05 08:30:01 1995
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec02.105901.1226@kiae.su>, mfischer@kiae.su (Marta Fischer) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

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

-- 
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From cstewart@mit.edu Tue Dec 05 20:48:01 1995
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From: cstewart@mit.edu (Camila Stewart)
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Subject: Re: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Dec05.083001.8832@demon.co.uk>, ekang@demon.co.uk (Élodie Kang) writes:
> The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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

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