The power of the hi hat trick in the LM-1 cannot be overstated. It provides a critically important non-repeating sample that always sounds fresh. The ear doesn’t tire of the sound like it does with a machine gun repeated sample.
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.
First time I saw an LM-1 was about 3 years ago, at a synth expo. It is a huge magnificent beast, and making it sound like Prince was just amazing. I think your 'ratings faces', need to become recognised synth units (ASU). Great video and tunes Alex.
@@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.
I never realized until the last jam that the linn drum was also all over early industrial too. You can hear it used on KMFDM’s opium and also on the first two Skinny Puppy LPs. I also recognize it from Ministry and a slew of other late 80s early 90s industrial bands.
My first engineering session with the LDrum was amazing. Yes. A basic sound canvas of the ‘80s. I still have those recordings and they are a sound time machine.
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
I have a friend who found one of these at a thrift store about ten years ago and it was super cheap, less than $50 if I remember correctly. It’s a good thing he found it too, because he was a synth and drum machine obsessed musician who has put it to good use.
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".
Love the sounds. My absolute favorite sounds even compared to other drum machine greats like TR-808, 707, and almost the 909. Almost. Great and informative video Alex!
Wow, I remember recording one of my early projects with one of those. Had to rent it and only had it for a few days. No time to learn how to program it, so we just manually played it and recorded the results to tape, later adding the bass and guitar.
Thanks for the very interesting (and funny) video. I really enjoy your "documentaries" about these instruments, keep up the great work!! And thanks for the sample pack as well, really appreciate it!!!
Thoroughly enjoyed that... thanks Alex! Very kind of you to drop in a little free gift for those who watched till the end - I happen to have been looking for a classic linn drum type sample pack and now I have the real deal :)
These beats are reminiscent of the dance floor moves you know, clapping hands , snapping fingers and throwing your arms and head back on the 2 and 4. Quite the technological moves found anywhere on our planet. Your stuff and the Lynn? Wow!
bit off about the LM-1 hi hat: it’s not *just* a continually looping sample of an open hi hat being affected for the closed hat, it’s a continually looping sample short enough to have basically no natural envelope. the open hat *and* closed hat on the LM-1 are run thru a VCA modulated by an AR envelope for each sound, one short for the closed hat and one long for the open hat. so when you trigger either hi hat sound what you’re actually triggering is just the VCA envelope while the sample continues looping unobstructed. both the closed *and* open hats are constantly changing and it’s one of those genius features i love about the linn stuff
I'll review those Lit-up glasses with my comment. A great side dish to this channel, and marvelous explanation of an instrument I was able to install onto my Yamaha PSR-S970. Great job, Alex.
The LinnDrum is the 1980s in one small (well quite biggish actually) box. So much music that I used to listen to was created using one of these - great to see and hear one again, cheers Alex.
@@AlexBallMusic even some modern tunes. Listen closely and you can hear linn samples dotted around modern pop records, and some tracks like Last Friday Night by Katy Perry are all Linn
@@AlexBallMusic I think the resurgence in the 90s somehow passed me by, maybe I'd moved on to other music, or perhaps I just wasn't paying attention!!!
@@benanderson89 Yeah, I'd spotted Linn samples in recent stuff - I couldn't tell you where I'd heard them, but every now and then I'll think "ooh the 1980s" because there's that familiar LinnDrum sound again.
A great machine! Stock Aitken and Waterman used one and used to include in the credits of their work “Drums: A. Linn”. As a kid I always wondered how a drummer could sound like a drum machine…
When I think of the LM-1 & LinnDrum, it reminds me of some of Prince's classic tracks and the drums that were processed thru a fair amount of his guitar pedals. I was just a youngish boy back then too 😐😑😐😑😥😪😭😭😭
I had one of these all through the 80s, mostly used live since we had no drummer for a while. Love the sound. Strange thing I've noticed is the conga eeprom has a different sample on different machines, not sure why that is. On the one in the video (and most others I've heard from UK recordings), it sounds like someone hitting a conga which is what you'd expect. On the one I had (and others which seem to be from US sources) the congo has much less slap to it and is more like a boop-y sound. Often times we'd set up patterns where the output was shared by one or more sound and you could create cut-off effects using that. Ex since you can't play the toms and the congas simultaneously, we could create a pattern in the toms where they were all cut off shorter than the sample length, by using congas mixed in the pattern (we'd just zero out the volume of the conga and all that was left was the cut off toms).
I always wanted to know where that unique Prince drum/rim shot sound came from. Because he would use it all the time in his music. Thanks for making this.
Wow, Alex, thank you so much for this. Been wondering if you were ever going to cover the Linn drum machine. Fascinated with this machine since the 80's. #prince 💜
Alex, your posts always get a like from me. I've wanted one of these since the 80s, so I'd like to give a second like for the LinnDrum video. When you used your Roland modular sequencer to change the pitch of the samples, I wanted to give a third like for that too! PS - Gated reverb is ace even on cheap 80s drum machines like the DDM-110. In fact, it could be argued that cheap drum machines benefit the most from reverb and other effects embellishing the cheesiness of their samples.
If released as a new machine with new samples and midi this would still outsell some new sampling machines. Thanks for another wonderful review on every eighties musicians dream.
@@AlexBallMusic Need a 12" version of this one matey ;) when i get the time would love to have a go, tunes like this really give me inspiration, Its one of them, to me makes hairs on yur arms stand up.. might be because I made a track very similar years ago, or have i heard that bass line somewhere else before. Cant put my finger on it yet lol
FYI: The Linn 9000 became the substitute of the Linndrum in 1984 but Roger Linn have a substitute for the Linn 9000 but it never came out, the name was Linn MidiStudio, I remember seeing in electronic musician magazines back in the 80'S. Then shortly after the Akai MPC60 was born and with Mr. Linn signature on it. I definitely believe that the MPC60 is the Linn MidiStudio finalized.
Yes, I alluded to the 9000 with the photo of him standing in front of it, but I'm hoping to do a separate video with one at some point. It almost happened but the unit in question died. Midi Studio - I've heard the same. He basically continued on developing his ideas at Akai and the MPC was probably what Linn would have released had they stayed afloat.
Another prominent use of LinnDrum was Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's classic Head To Toe. (Not that anyone was asking, but listening to this vaulted that memory back to the front of my brain in a hurry.)
I'm hoping the Behringer version is accurate to the original, because LinnDrum + my Drumtraks would make me so damn happy; hand claps and cowbells for daaaaaays.
Me too! Hopefully they actually recreate the playback architecture properly. Changing the pitch on one of these actually changes the sample rate of the DAC playing that sound. The modern (and lazy) thing to do would be to resample the sound in software and output them all through a fixed rate DAC. If they do that, you might as well be using a VST. Given how their analogue synth clones have been pretty good I'm hoping they get their clone of this right too.
@@eyeball226 they've been recreating chips left, right and centre, and they've bought the LinnDrum used by tears for fears to use as a point of reference, so I'm hopeful!
What's the deal with using the original samples? That must be one of the biggest parts of the sound, but I'd be amazed if you could just use them verbatim on another machine? That said, that's exactly what they did with the Drumtraks back in the day.
@@AlexBallMusic I'd imagine that, just like with the drumtraks, they'd just grab a dump of the ROMs and shove them into the machine. The interesting part though is that it has a sample input on the back; if the LMDrum ends up being just a generic sampler that down samples to 8/12-bit, then IMO it'll probably still be a good buy for the sequencing functions (but at that point you may as well step up in quality and buy the ISLA). However, if they recreate the entire signal chain of the original right down to the weird tuning behaviour then it'll open up some new possibilities without having to own an EPRom burner and a stack of chips!
Delightful sounds! I use Linn samples and a VST by Aly James Labs, but I’d love to have the hardware for that great interface. This is one I’d really love to see come back as a reissue of some kind.
@@intheblink I'd love a hybrid of the LM1 and LinnDrum. There's sounds on both I'd love to mash together! As for reissues; look up the Behringer LmDrum. Hardware prototypes are in circulation with a few pictures floating around.
A true 1980s kicker! Thank you Alex, always a pleasure to watch your videos. Roger Linn is a lovely guy, too. I bought a LinnStrument recently and had a question about it, which he answered by email in person. Apparently he tries to do this for all his customers. An absolute legend!
@@AlexBallMusic Yes it's really lovely to play! It has a slightly unsettling look to it because of the rubberised pad overlay, but it works really well and is extremely expressive. I'm not a guitarist, but I've played double bass - so the fourth-per-row tuning isn't completely unfamiliar. But I don't have all the scales and arpeggios at my command just yet... got to give that time :)
Alex I had a Ball as usual watching your video! Always first class content! I wish I had one of those in my collection. I did have the opportunity of using one back in the late 80s. I don't think it really ever had a true equal.
I recall an offsite at AES back in 2001 which had hands-on with classic and new gear from Moog, Buchla, and Linn. Roger was there showing off the new Adrenalinn next to a Linndrum. I couldn't figure out how to get it into step mode, and asked him. "This was in my garage collecting dust, but it fired right up." After punching in and demonstrating a pattern, he waved dismissively. "Enough of that old stuff, let me show you something new," and proceeded to strap on his guitar and demonstrate the Adrenalinn. I'd rather have a Linndrum, but I'm not a guitar player...
I didn’t think you could make a LinnDrum sound any better But then you got to turnin them knobs and boyyy it made me fall for the Linn all over againn 😍🔊💕👂
The power of the hi hat trick in the LM-1 cannot be overstated. It provides a critically important non-repeating sample that always sounds fresh. The ear doesn’t tire of the sound like it does with a machine gun repeated sample.
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.
Always a good day for a new Alex Ball video; even better when it comes with a face review.
😀😐😏🤔😬😟😲😛
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!
In the New Edition song "Cool It Now" (1984), the LinnDrum was heard.
The gated reverb came on and the sense of hair gel and ripped stonewash jeans became almost tangible. Great video and thank you for the samples!
...and we all start chewing Wrigleys.
Came here for the Linn. Stayed for Alex's jazz hands...
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That LinnDrum has been gorgeously preserved. Wow.
It's a goodun, yeah!
It's like 90% of the 80s PRINCE sound there at the end with the flange and reverb added!
First time I saw an LM-1 was about 3 years ago, at a synth expo. It is a huge magnificent beast, and making it sound like Prince was just amazing.
I think your 'ratings faces', need to become recognised synth units (ASU).
Great video and tunes Alex.
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.
I never realized until the last jam that the linn drum was also all over early industrial too. You can hear it used on KMFDM’s opium and also on the first two Skinny Puppy LPs. I also recognize it from Ministry and a slew of other late 80s early 90s industrial bands.
Wrong Skinny Puppy 808 and 909 on Remission and Bites
@@gertjelken424 There's no way Assimilate was written with an 808/909.
The ghost of Prince’s past returns! Love it so much
The sidestick is instant Prince. Can't hear anything else when I hit that.
@@AlexBallMusic and the Toms
The kick drum on this one is already punchy enough even without effects. That says a lot about the machine itself.
My first engineering session with the LDrum was amazing. Yes. A basic sound canvas of the ‘80s. I still have those recordings and they are a sound time machine.
You are a gentleman and a historian. Great work.
Cheers!
the LinnDrum is in my opinion the best Drum Machine ever made. It's sounds are just pure magic and fit in basically every 80s Song!
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
Glad to hear this legend running again! :D The outro jam was a real treat, and I loved the use of it in conjunction with a modular rig. Awesome work!
I have a friend who found one of these at a thrift store about ten years ago and it was super cheap, less than $50 if I remember correctly. It’s a good thing he found it too, because he was a synth and drum machine obsessed musician who has put it to good use.
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".
Love the sounds. My absolute favorite sounds even compared to other drum machine greats like TR-808, 707, and almost the 909. Almost. Great and informative video Alex!
The LinnDrum hi-hat was heard in the song "Sushi" (1982).
In the song "White Wedding, Pt. 1" (1982), the LinnDrum was heard.
Real drums.
You've been on a roll lately. 2600, Jupiters, now a LinnDrum! Your channel is growing too strong!
Some pretty obscene gear, yeah.
Even better....there's more. Much more. 😃
Wow, I remember recording one of my early projects with one of those. Had to rent it and only had it for a few days. No time to learn how to program it, so we just manually played it and recorded the results to tape, later adding the bass and guitar.
You just finger drummed it? I guess that works too!
Thanks for the very interesting (and funny) video. I really enjoy your "documentaries" about these instruments, keep up the great work!! And thanks for the sample pack as well, really appreciate it!!!
YES I LOVE THE LINN DRUM
In my learned, all-knowing internet opinion, the LinnDrum is THE sound of the 80s.
😂
@@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.
Thanks for the samples! Back in the day I had a demo flexi record of the Linn Drum. Really wish I still had that!
Awesome, nothing beats analog in terms of fun. Very cool of you to make that sample pack, cheers 😎
Yeah!😎😎
@ 3:47 "Place coin here if soundsheet slips"
Those were the days.
Thank you for the samples.
I promise to use them for good, only.
Okay, running it through the modular was AWESOME.
LinnDrum was heard in the song "Trick to Happy" (2020).
Thoroughly enjoyed that... thanks Alex! Very kind of you to drop in a little free gift for those who watched till the end - I happen to have been looking for a classic linn drum type sample pack and now I have the real deal :)
The final tune is so cool
I like the dives into old gear from back when I started buying gear, but I love the period appropriate jams.
And thanks for the samples!
These beats are reminiscent of the dance floor moves you know, clapping hands , snapping fingers and throwing your arms and head back on the 2 and 4. Quite the technological moves found anywhere on our planet. Your stuff and the Lynn? Wow!
bit off about the LM-1 hi hat: it’s not *just* a continually looping sample of an open hi hat being affected for the closed hat, it’s a continually looping sample short enough to have basically no natural envelope. the open hat *and* closed hat on the LM-1 are run thru a VCA modulated by an AR envelope for each sound, one short for the closed hat and one long for the open hat. so when you trigger either hi hat sound what you’re actually triggering is just the VCA envelope while the sample continues looping unobstructed. both the closed *and* open hats are constantly changing and it’s one of those genius features i love about the linn stuff
I'll review those Lit-up glasses with my comment. A great side dish to this channel, and marvelous explanation of an instrument I was able to install onto my Yamaha PSR-S970. Great job, Alex.
Thanks for the....glowing review. 😎
Glad to hear you got the samples running in your Yamaha.
My teacher just showed us this in class. Absolutely loved it when you looked up every time you showed us a setting 😂
The LinnDrum is the 1980s in one small (well quite biggish actually) box. So much music that I used to listen to was created using one of these - great to see and hear one again, cheers Alex.
Yep, and then also weirdly the 90s too because of Daft Punk etc!
@@AlexBallMusic even some modern tunes. Listen closely and you can hear linn samples dotted around modern pop records, and some tracks like Last Friday Night by Katy Perry are all Linn
@@AlexBallMusic I think the resurgence in the 90s somehow passed me by, maybe I'd moved on to other music, or perhaps I just wasn't paying attention!!!
@@benanderson89 Yeah, I'd spotted Linn samples in recent stuff - I couldn't tell you where I'd heard them, but every now and then I'll think "ooh the 1980s" because there's that familiar LinnDrum sound again.
A great machine! Stock Aitken and Waterman used one and used to include in the credits of their work “Drums: A. Linn”. As a kid I always wondered how a drummer could sound like a drum machine…
Downloaded and throwing into my TR-8S. Thanks muchly.
When I think of the LM-1 & LinnDrum, it reminds me of some of Prince's classic tracks and the drums that were processed thru a fair amount of his guitar pedals. I was just a youngish boy back then too 😐😑😐😑😥😪😭😭😭
Just stumbled across this channel/video. Thanks for making it fun.
Great videos , its so interesting to listen to the History of the instruments , so much fun 👍🏼
Well researched and interesting narrative. Learned a lot about the Linn boxes today. Thank you.
Glad to hear, thanks!
THANK YOU "SO MUCH" FOR THE SAMPLES....YOU'RE A LEGEND!!! Been wanting these for years....im going to be busy!
Thanks for the rad sample pack. Your videos are just as informative as they are inspirational.
That side stick pitched down, sounds so dope!
I had one of these all through the 80s, mostly used live since we had no drummer for a while. Love the sound.
Strange thing I've noticed is the conga eeprom has a different sample on different machines, not sure why that is. On the one in the video (and most others I've heard from UK recordings), it sounds like someone hitting a conga which is what you'd expect. On the one I had (and others which seem to be from US sources) the congo has much less slap to it and is more like a boop-y sound.
Often times we'd set up patterns where the output was shared by one or more sound and you could create cut-off effects using that. Ex since you can't play the toms and the congas simultaneously, we could create a pattern in the toms where they were all cut off shorter than the sample length, by using congas mixed in the pattern (we'd just zero out the volume of the conga and all that was left was the cut off toms).
A lot of us probably face review your fave reviews with a big smile. Nice outro :)
Excellent! Alex Ball videos are always a treat! Your face reviews should be SI base units. :D
😃😁😍🤨😏😬🤓😲😋
Ahh... Reminds me of the good old days in the 80s at Ground Control Studios in Santa Monica and Post Logic Studio in Hollywood. Good times!
Alex, I just DL'd the sample pack. Talk about thorough! Thanks so much!
Nice video and a free sample pack. Thank you!
dude, fucking 20 secs in and you have me grooving and most important: smiling ear to ear. Golden.
334th! Howdy! Congrats on your reunion with this classic beast. Can't thank you enough for deep-sampling this. Thanks always for all you do!
Cheers Glenn. Yeah, nice to see it again for a short while. Deep-sampling was a must!
Thanks for the samples! And I labsolutely loved whatever patch you did on that Microfreak at the awesome outro jam!
Man i love your stuff. I was looking for good LinnDrum samples, cant thank you enought.
man you are killing me with those sample packs.
I always wanted to know where that unique Prince drum/rim shot sound came from. Because he would use it all the time in his music. Thanks for making this.
Wow, Alex, thank you so much for this. Been wondering if you were ever going to cover the Linn drum machine. Fascinated with this machine since the 80's. #prince 💜
Always here for an 'Alex reviews sounds with his face' vid 😁 🥁
I'm so in love with this drum machine 🧡
It's cool!
Alex, your posts always get a like from me. I've wanted one of these since the 80s, so I'd like to give a second like for the LinnDrum video. When you used your Roland modular sequencer to change the pitch of the samples, I wanted to give a third like for that too!
PS - Gated reverb is ace even on cheap 80s drum machines like the DDM-110. In fact, it could be argued that cheap drum machines benefit the most from reverb and other effects embellishing the cheesiness of their samples.
Excellent demonstration and background, Alex! I love the history associated with these.
Cheers Eric. Yes, always fun to research the backstory of these.
I've listened to your Jam at the end about 20 times❤
If released as a new machine with new samples and midi this would still outsell some new sampling machines.
Thanks for another wonderful review on every eighties musicians dream.
love these old retro gear vids.. outro tune makes me want to just jam along :)
Cheers. Jam away!
@@AlexBallMusic Need a 12" version of this one matey ;) when i get the time would love to have a go, tunes like this really give me inspiration, Its one of them, to me makes hairs on yur arms stand up.. might be because I made a track very similar years ago, or have i heard that bass line somewhere else before. Cant put my finger on it yet lol
You restored my faith in you by making that sample pack.
Restored your faith? Did I do something bad?
FYI:
The Linn 9000 became the substitute of the Linndrum in 1984 but Roger Linn have a substitute for the Linn 9000 but it never came out, the name was Linn MidiStudio, I remember seeing in electronic musician magazines back in the 80'S. Then shortly after the Akai MPC60 was born and with Mr. Linn signature on it. I definitely believe that the MPC60 is the Linn MidiStudio finalized.
Yes, I alluded to the 9000 with the photo of him standing in front of it, but I'm hoping to do a separate video with one at some point. It almost happened but the unit in question died.
Midi Studio - I've heard the same. He basically continued on developing his ideas at Akai and the MPC was probably what Linn would have released had they stayed afloat.
Just too much fun in the studio, with all that gear!🤣
Another prominent use of LinnDrum was Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's classic Head To Toe. (Not that anyone was asking, but listening to this vaulted that memory back to the front of my brain in a hurry.)
lol you always make the happiest tracks. man that drum machine sounds so good.
The Beautiful One, Linn Drum Machine!.....I would buy it Now!!
The LinnDrum is such a fun sound! Great historical look.
Love the hi-hat and side stick. The sound of Boys of Summer. Really odd you can’t tune the bass drum on the Linndrum when you could on the LM-1.
Yes, the limited tuning is quite the bummer. A downtuned clap is a must.
There's a pot on the inside of the LinnDrum that will allow bass drum tuning and (I think) another one for decay.
@@AlexBallMusic 1999!
@@toolman8269 there is indeed
Damn. Annoying to find that out after the video!
I'm hoping the Behringer version is accurate to the original, because LinnDrum + my Drumtraks would make me so damn happy; hand claps and cowbells for daaaaaays.
Me too! Hopefully they actually recreate the playback architecture properly. Changing the pitch on one of these actually changes the sample rate of the DAC playing that sound.
The modern (and lazy) thing to do would be to resample the sound in software and output them all through a fixed rate DAC. If they do that, you might as well be using a VST.
Given how their analogue synth clones have been pretty good I'm hoping they get their clone of this right too.
@@eyeball226 they've been recreating chips left, right and centre, and they've bought the LinnDrum used by tears for fears to use as a point of reference, so I'm hopeful!
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What's the deal with using the original samples? That must be one of the biggest parts of the sound, but I'd be amazed if you could just use them verbatim on another machine?
That said, that's exactly what they did with the Drumtraks back in the day.
@@AlexBallMusic I'd imagine that, just like with the drumtraks, they'd just grab a dump of the ROMs and shove them into the machine. The interesting part though is that it has a sample input on the back; if the LMDrum ends up being just a generic sampler that down samples to 8/12-bit, then IMO it'll probably still be a good buy for the sequencing functions (but at that point you may as well step up in quality and buy the ISLA). However, if they recreate the entire signal chain of the original right down to the weird tuning behaviour then it'll open up some new possibilities without having to own an EPRom burner and a stack of chips!
Waouh I never realize this thing was so big! It looks so huge next to the modern machine. Thanks for another interesting video Alex.
Delightful sounds! I use Linn samples and a VST by Aly James Labs, but I’d love to have the hardware for that great interface. This is one I’d really love to see come back as a reissue of some kind.
The Aly James Vst (which I also have) is of the LM1. The LinnDrum is a different beast.
@@benanderson89 I’m aware, but the sounds are similar enough for me. I actually prefer the LM-1 myself.
@@intheblink I'd love a hybrid of the LM1 and LinnDrum. There's sounds on both I'd love to mash together!
As for reissues; look up the Behringer LmDrum. Hardware prototypes are in circulation with a few pictures floating around.
Think you could load a Linndrum EPROM on there too?
@@sinewaves1631 Yes, you can load EPROMS on that one. I frequently use mine with some Linn9000 sounds
Thank you very much for the samples !!!
Excellent demonstration, I loved the Linn Drum hooked to the modular !
Cheers. Yes, always fun to drag things over to the modular to see what happens.
Enjoy the samples!
@@AlexBallMusic Thanks a lot !
Those congas instantly made me think of new order's 'the perfect kiss'
Excellent video fine sir! You, as usual, come up with come great videos demonstrating some of the most iconic instruments out there!
Thanks... I will definitely use these samples!
Wow, loving that closing track.
A true 1980s kicker! Thank you Alex, always a pleasure to watch your videos. Roger Linn is a lovely guy, too. I bought a LinnStrument recently and had a question about it, which he answered by email in person. Apparently he tries to do this for all his customers. An absolute legend!
The LinnStrument looks quite underrated. Awesome to see him still innovating and also answering emails personally! What a great guy.
@@AlexBallMusic Yes it's really lovely to play! It has a slightly unsettling look to it because of the rubberised pad overlay, but it works really well and is extremely expressive. I'm not a guitarist, but I've played double bass - so the fourth-per-row tuning isn't completely unfamiliar. But I don't have all the scales and arpeggios at my command just yet... got to give that time :)
Thank you for the Samples Alex, I'll be sure to put them to good use.
I enjoyed learning about the history. Thanks
Thanks John, good to know.
Alex I had a Ball as usual watching your video! Always first class content! I wish I had one of those in my collection. I did have the opportunity of using one back in the late 80s. I don't think it really ever had a true equal.
Love the end track! Bro you are amazing! :D
I always enjoy your content! Thanks for making these backstories and sharing your effort with us!
Nice Intro Jam. Geert would love it. - Thx for the samples - those are gold.
Cheers Kai. Hope you have fun with them!
@@AlexBallMusic A-HA, Tears4Fears backing tracks. ;)
Crunchy retro goodness thanks for the sample pack
So crunchy you can pour milk on it and have it for breakfast.
@@AlexBallMusic Capt’n Linns now with crunchy kick bits
Here before 1k views :3
Always a pleasure watching your videos!
You're so early that midi hasn't been invented. 😉
@@AlexBallMusic What is midi?!?!?!?
You have already heard the Linn Drum in our intro-……oops, wrong channel!
Great vid as always!
Haha, nice!
Alex Ball's channel is growing more and more into Doctor Mix's channel. Haha! Great video on this beautiful drum machine!
I recall an offsite at AES back in 2001 which had hands-on with classic and new gear from Moog, Buchla, and Linn. Roger was there showing off the new Adrenalinn next to a Linndrum. I couldn't figure out how to get it into step mode, and asked him. "This was in my garage collecting dust, but it fired right up." After punching in and demonstrating a pattern, he waved dismissively. "Enough of that old stuff, let me show you something new," and proceeded to strap on his guitar and demonstrate the Adrenalinn.
I'd rather have a Linndrum, but I'm not a guitar player...
Oh Man, what a stunning track at the end of this informative video. Thanks Alex.
Cheers Peter!
The LinnDrum bass drum was heard in the song "Peek-a-Boo!" (1982).
Thank you for the sample pack!
I didn’t think you could make a LinnDrum sound any better
But then you got to turnin them knobs and boyyy it made me fall for the Linn all over againn 😍🔊💕👂
Hi Alex Excelent video and Thank you very much for the Free Sample Pack!
Did you know : everyone knows that / ulterior motives? This used by linndrum machine, the song is lostwave/lostmedia