From hnakamura@illinois.edu Sat Oct 07 14:10:11 1995
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From: hnakamura@illinois.edu (Heather Nakamura)
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Subject: Question: 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.

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).
Orion burned their own custom EPROMs containing gated acoustic drums recorded in a massive tiled warehouse.

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

-- 
Heather Nakamura
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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From: mstewart@pacbell.net (Min-jun Stewart)
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Subject: Re: Question: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1995Oct07.141011.1546@illinois.edu>, hnakamura@illinois.edu (Heather Nakamura) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

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

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Min-jun Stewart
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