From mmartinez@inria.fr Mon Aug 21 08:45:04 1995
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From: mmartinez@inria.fr (Mathieu Martínez)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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'.

The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 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?

-- 
Mathieu Martínez -- INRIA Rocquencourt
"Row 14. No joke."

From dpark@titech.ac.jp Mon Aug 21 18:31:04 1995
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From: dpark@titech.ac.jp (Dong-hyun Park)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Aug21.084504.3021@inria.fr>, mmartinez@inria.fr (Mathieu Martínez) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.
> The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.

Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends.

-- 
Dong-hyun Park -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre
"The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"

From astewart@rwth-aachen.de Mon Aug 21 23:57:04 1995
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From: astewart@rwth-aachen.de (Astrid Stewart)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:57:04 GMT
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In article <1995Aug21.183104.1522@titech.ac.jp>, dpark@titech.ac.jp (Dong-hyun Park) writes:
> Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends.

That sub-kick tuning blew my mind when I checked it on a spectrum analyzer. 42.6 Hz is the 3rd harmonic of 14.2 Hz!

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Astrid Stewart -- RWTH Aachen Informatik
"Row 14. No joke."