From hweber@purdue.edu Sat Dec 10 01:57:01 1994
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From: hweber@purdue.edu (Heather Weber)
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Subject: [INFO] 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'.

The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.
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?

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From cperez@illinois.edu Mon Dec 12 04:53:01 1994
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From: cperez@illinois.edu (Camila Pérez)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Dec10.015701.9628@purdue.edu>, hweber@purdue.edu (Heather Weber) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.
> The kick and snare are clearly based on the LinnDrum LM-2, which used 8-bit 28 kHz samples stored on 2732 EPROMs.

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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=== Camila Pérez ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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