From ghernandez@berkeley.edu Thu May 04 15:33:37 1995
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From: ghernandez@berkeley.edu (Göran Hernández)
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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'.

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?

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From ngarcia@inria.fr Fri May 05 23:12:37 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995May04.153337.7509@berkeley.edu>, ghernandez@berkeley.edu (Göran Hernández) writes:
> 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 MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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Nadia García -- INRIA Rocquencourt
"Marcus is not one man."