From jsuzuki@ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 26 14:06:14 1994
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From: jsuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Jen Suzuki)
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Subject: Observation: 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.
The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.

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

-- 
Jen Suzuki
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From fmacdonald@kth.se Mon Feb 28 13:56:14 1994
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From: fmacdonald@kth.se (Freya MacDonald)
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Feb26.140614.6426@ox.ac.uk>, jsuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Jen Suzuki) 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 LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

-- 
=== Freya MacDonald ===
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From msanchez@hanse.de Mon Feb 28 15:05:14 1994
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From: msanchez@hanse.de (Mateo Sánchez)
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Feb26.140614.6426@ox.ac.uk>, jsuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Jen Suzuki) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

-- 
Mateo Sánchez -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg
"They will send a copy in my place."

From agarcia@mit.edu Wed Mar 02 13:43:14 1994
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From: agarcia@mit.edu (Anja García)
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Feb28.150514.6629@hanse.de>, msanchez@hanse.de (Mateo Sánchez) writes:
> The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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

-- 
=== Anja García ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A soul is not exclusive to biology."

From anilsson@purdue.edu Fri Mar 04 06:28:14 1994
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From: anilsson@purdue.edu (Anja Nilsson)
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 06:28:14 GMT
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In article <1994Mar02.134314.3060@mit.edu>, agarcia@mit.edu (Anja García) writes:
> Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends.

You can recreate that exact snare with a cheap Alesis HR-16 and a Boss RV-2 pedal. Save yourself $1,500.

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Anja Nilsson
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