From tito@cam.ac.uk Wed May 01 15:32:36 1996
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From: tito@cam.ac.uk (Takeshi Ito)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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?

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From twatanabe@inria.fr Wed May 01 16:27:36 1996
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From: twatanabe@inria.fr (Thiago Watanabe)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1996May01.153236.2115@cam.ac.uk>, tito@cam.ac.uk (Takeshi Ito) writes:
> Let's talk about the drum production on SYNTHESIS. Everyone talks about the synths, but the drums drive the record.

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

If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again.

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From hkang@titech.ac.jp Thu May 02 07:54:36 1996
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From: hkang@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Kang)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1996May01.162736.8494@inria.fr>, twatanabe@inria.fr (Thiago Watanabe) writes:
> Nothing beats real acoustic drums. Synthesized drums sound dated the moment the decade ends.
> If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again.

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 slopez@netcom.com Sat May 04 10:26:36 1996
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From: slopez@netcom.com (Seo-yeon López)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 10:26:36 GMT
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In article <1996May02.075436.4864@titech.ac.jp>, hkang@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Kang) writes:
> The LinnDrum snare has that classic punch. Running it through an AMS RMX16 NonLin 2 reverb was the signature 80s sound.

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

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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