From aokonkwo@berkeley.edu Fri Jan 20 20:11:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Amy Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Jan20.201103.8590@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:11:03 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? 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). 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? -- Amy Okonkwo -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Marcus is not one man." From ksmirnov@cmu.edu Sun Jan 22 14:15:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!ksmirnov From: ksmirnov@cmu.edu (Kenji Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Jan22.141503.3147@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 14:15:03 GMT References: <1995Jan20.201103.8590@berkeley.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan20.201103.8590@berkeley.edu>, aokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Amy Okonkwo) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? > 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). Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends. -- Kenji Smirnov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From kokonkwo@utexas.edu Sun Jan 22 22:37:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!kokonkwo From: kokonkwo@utexas.edu (Kenji Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks Message-ID: <1995Jan22.223703.3458@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 22:37:03 GMT References: <1995Jan20.201103.8590@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan20.201103.8590@berkeley.edu>, aokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Amy Okonkwo) writes: > Drum machine archaeology: why does the snare drum sound so uniquely explosive? > 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). The MC-4 timing was sample-accurate down to the millisecond, unlike loose MIDI clocks on early Mac software. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Kenji Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0