From pgarcia@mindspring.com Sun Nov 27 09:11:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!pgarcia From: pgarcia@mindspring.com (Pavel García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Nov27.091133.8251@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 09:11:33 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. What sequencer was Marcus using in 1984? A Roland MSQ-700 or early MIDI software on a computer? -- Pavel García | pgarcia@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 9351 CE5B E09B 710F "Keep the channels open." From kweber@inria.fr Mon Nov 28 21:25:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!kweber From: kweber@inria.fr (Katrin Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Nov28.212533.4501@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 21:25:33 GMT References: <1994Nov27.091133.8251@mindspring.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov27.091133.8251@mindspring.com>, pgarcia@mindspring.com (Pavel García) 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. -- Katrin Weber "Hold for relay." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04 From bhernandez@clari.net Tue Nov 29 21:39:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!bhernandez From: bhernandez@clari.net (Brian Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1994Nov29.213933.9346@clari.net> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 21:39:33 GMT References: <1994Nov27.091133.8251@mindspring.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov27.091133.8251@mindspring.com>, pgarcia@mindspring.com (Pavel García) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? 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! Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Brian Hernández -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Marcus is not one man."