From vito@illinois.edu Tue Nov 28 05:49:55 1995
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From: vito@illinois.edu (Valeria Ito)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.
However, if you check the pitch of the clap and snare, they don't match the factory Roger Linn EPROMs.

Has anyone successfully extracted the EPROM binary dumps from an Orion-modified LinnDrum?

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From slopez@berkeley.edu Wed Nov 29 19:00:55 1995
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From: slopez@berkeley.edu (Steve López)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Nov28.054955.4583@illinois.edu>, vito@illinois.edu (Valeria Ito) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.
> 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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From thughes@earthlink.net Wed Nov 29 20:31:55 1995
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From: thughes@earthlink.net (Takeshi Hughes)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Nov28.054955.4583@illinois.edu>, vito@illinois.edu (Valeria Ito) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.
> Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.

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

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