The Legendary LinnDrum 

Totally!

I never understood why post 80's keyboards offered hihat, closing hihat and open hihat where they should have done side and tip of the drum stick, so you can groove. Especially because closing the hihat with tip or side pads works perfectly. To this day you regularly have to work around that flaw when you connect an electronic drumkit to another device, samplers and a handful VST plugins excluded.

​@@jairkerker2821 because it would be double the amount of samples, also a sample doesn't care what part of the stick it's hit with, it's an electronic sound, you achieve those effects by playing with velocity pitch and cut-off, when you listen to a high hat sound created digitally it's up for interpretation how it's "hit"... most people just use slight variations of the same sound if they want a realistic human feel

@@jairkerker2821 Nostalgia's a b*tch, everything was better before right? Native Instruments session drummer does this all perfectly, and moreover, it' multisampled.

@@asor8037 Everybody knows that everything is better now.

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The cowbell didn’t disappoint 😄

Bahaha

I'm a big face review fan too :)

@@paulinfrancis Haha i thought exactly the same. There is way too little proper cowbell in today’s charts music!

It's a goodun, yeah!

...and we all start chewing Wrigleys.

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Love how deep the LM-1 is. Like those old TVs or PC monitors that we're deeper than they were wide!

@@AlexBallMusic And as a TV engineer, I've carried them all, but the Philips video 2000 was a hefty behemoth.

@@AlexBallMusic "Love how deep the LM-1 is" But the memory of LM-1 wasn't "deep" much resulted in that dodgy cycled hi-hat sample.

@@MSM5500 I meant "deep" physically. The thing just goes back and back. It's comically large for what it does.

@@AlexBallMusic No worries! I know exactly what you meant. BTW There has been an open source HW Linndrum project out there which was entirely neglected by the crowd. I've built my one based upon that project but with use of the original Linndrum 4-pole filters in there (thanks to Cool Audio / Alfa PRAR for 3320 reissue). So I've learnt the architecture as well as circuit operation of both LM1 & LinnDrum very well. The sound module has advantage over the original LinnDrum in polypholy 12 voices vs 15 voices and plays both drum kits at a time yet packed up in 19" 1U rack unit.

Wrong Skinny Puppy 808 and 909 on Remission and Bites

@@gertjelken424 There's no way Assimilate was written with an 808/909.

The sidestick is instant Prince. Can't hear anything else when I hit that.

@@AlexBallMusic and the Toms

Real drums.

Cheers!

Ha ha, isn't that what people usually say when they bought a vintage musical instrument for more money than what they care to admits? AKA "honey, it wa so cheap, I will make a ton of money when I sell it".

thank god no scalper took it before him. At least NOW it's actually used and not sitting around as "speculation object".

Emjoy!

Glad to hear, thanks!

Cheers Eric. Yes, always fun to research the backstory of these.

I remember progressing one in the studio in the '80s. I loved it then and would love to have one now. They were great machines.

It has a lot to recommend it as far as interface innovation, and it's got a well thought out kit, but any decent drum machine or groovebox from the last twenty years with loadable memory can surely hold its tiny bit crushed samples, with much more sound sculpting ability besides. It deserves its place in history. Linn is a legend, but best drum machine of all time is a stretch. Most important arguably, but I lost interest in music once everything became a dx7 and Linn drum preset. Just reams of awful synth pop

Cheers. Yes, always fun to drag things over to the modular to see what happens. Enjoy the samples!

@@AlexBallMusic Thanks a lot !

Cheers Mikael!

It's cool!

Cheers Glenn. Yeah, nice to see it again for a short while. Deep-sampling was a must!

Cheers Peter!

Restored your faith? Did I do something bad?

Cheers!

Cheers Mack!

Have there been any others? 😄

Thanks for the....glowing review. 😎 Glad to hear you got the samples running in your Yamaha.

Thanks Ian, appreciate it.

Thanks Max!

Pleasure. Enjoy!

@@AlexBallMusic You're the best man! xoxo

Do you know about "EKT"? that mysterious song has the linndrum in it.

Thanks!

😂

@@AlexBallMusic isla 2400 rules, sell me yours!

I'm also a denizen of the internet, so I feel that I have the credentials to corroborate your statement.

The Linndrum and the Simmons SDSV is the 80'S sound.

The Oberheim DX and DMX tore NYC a fresh one in the 80s.

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Some pretty obscene gear, yeah. Even better....there's more. Much more. 😃

Cheers Jack.

Thanks John, good to know.

Cheers Kai. Hope you have fun with them!

@@AlexBallMusic A-HA, Tears4Fears backing tracks. ;)