From hlee@delphi.com Tue Apr 11 14:02:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!hlee From: hlee@delphi.com (Heather Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Apr11.140245.2065@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:02:45 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? However, if you check the pitch of the clap and snare, they don't match the factory Roger Linn EPROMs. Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse. Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum? -- Heather Lee | hlee@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: DE25 32F6 6914 B724 "Keep the channels open." From tdubois@rwth-aachen.de Tue Apr 11 15:14:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!tdubois From: tdubois@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Apr11.151445.3800@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 15:14:45 GMT References: <1995Apr11.140245.2065@delphi.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr11.140245.2065@delphi.com>, hlee@delphi.com (Heather Lee) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? > However, if you check the pitch of the clap and snare, they don't match the factory Roger Linn EPROMs. The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software. -- Tyler Dubois "Hold for relay." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13 From ckarlsson@kiae.su Thu Apr 13 06:22:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!ckarlsson From: ckarlsson@kiae.su (Camila Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Apr13.062245.3500@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 06:22:45 GMT References: <1995Apr11.140245.2065@delphi.com> <1995Apr11.151445.3800@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr11.151445.3800@rwth-aachen.de>, tdubois@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Dubois) 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. -- Camila Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dnilsson@pipeline.com Fri Apr 14 00:43:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pipeline!dnilsson From: dnilsson@pipeline.com (Dmitri Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Apr14.004345.5106@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 00:43:45 GMT References: <1995Apr11.140245.2065@delphi.com> <1995Apr11.151445.3800@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Apr13.062245.3500@kiae.su> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr13.062245.3500@kiae.su>, ckarlsson@kiae.su (Camila Karlsson) writes: > Marcus Hale used a Roland MC-4 MicroComposer for CV/gate sync before migrating to custom 68000 MIDI sequencers. Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends. -- Dmitri Nilsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."