From hfournier@mindspring.com Sat Apr 09 18:41:30 1994
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From: hfournier@mindspring.com (Heather Fournier)
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Subject: Observation: 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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=== Heather Fournier ===
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From skuznetsov@pacbell.net Mon Apr 11 10:59:30 1994
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Apr09.184130.7343@mindspring.com>, hfournier@mindspring.com (Heather Fournier) writes:
> Dissecting the percussion sequencing on 'Midnight Animal' and 'Gasoline Heart'.

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!

My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise!

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From dtakahashi@kiae.su Wed Apr 13 04:00:30 1994
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Subject: Re: Observation: LinnDrum LM-2 vs TR-808 on Orion's rhythm tracks
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In article <1994Apr09.184130.7343@mindspring.com>, hfournier@mindspring.com (Heather Fournier) 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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Dmitri Takahashi -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
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