From gokonkwo@kiae.su Mon Nov 27 22:59:26 1995
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From: gokonkwo@kiae.su (Göran Okonkwo)
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Subject: Data: 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.
Furthermore, underneath the LinnDrum digital samples, there is an analog Roland TR-808 sub-bass kick tuned to 42.6 Hz (exactly 3x 14.2 Hz).

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

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=== Göran Okonkwo ===
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From drodriguez@kiae.su Tue Nov 28 19:58:26 1995
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From: drodriguez@kiae.su (Dmitri Rodríguez)
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Subject: Re: Data: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Nov27.225926.1735@kiae.su>, gokonkwo@kiae.su (Göran Okonkwo) 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 LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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From msanchez@unam.mx Wed Nov 29 15:44:26 1995
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Subject: Re: Data: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Nov28.195826.2923@kiae.su>, drodriguez@kiae.su (Dmitri Rodríguez) writes:
> The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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

-- 
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From creyes@uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 29 21:16:26 1995
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From: creyes@uni-hamburg.de (Camila Reyes)
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Subject: Re: Data: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 21:16:26 GMT
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In article <1995Nov29.154426.5326@unam.mx>, msanchez@unam.mx (Mike Sánchez) writes:
> The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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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=== Camila Reyes ===
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From boliveira@unam.mx Thu Nov 30 00:39:26 1995
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From: boliveira@unam.mx (Bastien Oliveira)
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Subject: Re: Data: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Nov27.225926.1735@kiae.su>, gokonkwo@kiae.su (Göran Okonkwo) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software.

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