Have you seen the behind the synths of deadpool or stranger things? Those rooms are full of synths I've always thought it looked like a spaceship but submarines definitely come to mind
This is a drum machine Behringer should really clone , the Tr-808 and 909 are instrumental also. The LinnDrum played a huge part in pop music and EDM . It’s often overlooked.
Behringer did a video where they mimic the sounds of Thriller but use a RD8, their TR 808 clone. The guy mentions the Linndrum and says "we should clone that" and looks away in thought as if it's a hit.
This has me reliving my childhood. Being born in 1979 the1980's was such a fun decade so when I hear any sound that harkens back to those glorious days I get engulfed with nostalgia and want to cry too. God I miss the 80's!!
Still holds well today. Great drum machine. Also you could upgrade it easy. The top just flips up and you could change the ic chips. All the best synths and drum machines were made back in the 80s.
Do you know where I can get samples from at all? I've been looking for a decent source of Linn drum plus other drum machines like the Oberheim, 808 & 909 etc if you know of any that don't cost the earth. Cheers 👍
@@JammyGit samples.kb6.de but iirc the roland/boss kits were getting deleted from his servers so he stopped re-uploading but a small donation gets you access to a huge library of drum machines. I've even donated a few kits to the cause.
I was a young man in the 80's and iam still amazed by the music. The Linn drum machine made it happen. Thank you for showing me how it wa done. Mich love to you💖🎼🤩🙏🌞.
I actually owned one of these back in the early '90's, with the MIDI upgrade....and for some crazy reason decided to SELL it when I was moving to a new place. As the dude was on his way to come and get it I was already having sellers remorse...but felt too guilty to tell him no after he arrived to buy it. (and I hate to say I listed and sold it for only $300!! Arrggg) Still one of the pieces of gear I wish I had kept around. All the real-time controls were very cool and the sound is classic.
The LinnDrum hi-hat was heard in the Kenny Loggins/Steve Perry song "Don't Fight It" (1982), Tears for Fears song "Shout" (1984) and the Rugrats/All Grown Up! song "You're a Friend to Me" (2001).
Such a crunchy sound, especially when tuned down. Love it. You're a lucky man! Interesting fact - it was never called the LM-2. The LM-1 stood for Linn/Moffett-1. Alex Moffett had left the company by the time Roger Linn made the second machine, so it was just called "Linn Drum". 😀
well the 80s already started when this device was released and i remember when it was released and it was never advertised as a rehearsal device. Just a real isntrument for some real drumwork. There were enough bands that never used drummers or combined them. It was never ment as a replacement to them,
a massive salute to howard jones, nik kershaw, hubert kah, men without hats, kajagoogoo, irene cara, eurythmics, yazoo, hayzee fanteyzee, mike oldfield, adam ant, prince, a ha, and many others; HAIL TO THE KINGS BABE😍
Bought a LinnDrum when it first came out. Of course, this was in the pre-MIDI days. Later I had Forat "MIDI-fy" it which brought it into the modern age. I donated it to the Museum of Making Music about 10 years ago. What a great instrument.
And 6 years later, Behringer have released their clone of the LM-1 / LinnDrum, complete with - according to the manual - extra sounds from the Sequential DrumTracks and Simmons SDS! I pre-ordered mine this morning (mid-December 2024) and should receive it at the end of... February. It's still worth the wait.
Each of those strikes have been heard a million times over, yet have never gotten stale at least to me. These are some of the first digital files to go viral.
The best drum machine ever, imo. I load LinnDrum samples into every sampler I’ve owned. Got them in my Digitakt right now, and Volca Sample, and my iPad.
so amazing. this thing has a groove like no other, so perfectly imperfect. we used to pay somebody by the hour to program it in the eighties. it was impossible to afford at that time.
@@andriealinsangao613 Junn's Factory JM-1, it's one of the best LinnDrum's replicas for DAW software. I strongly recommend it, if you want to start with electronic music.
bobacks yeah, and I prefer the sound of the LM-1 to the LinnDrum (LM-2), but the Vprom can also load eprom bin files from the other classic drum machines of the time!
One of my fave uses of the linn is one of the most stark and basic, in a song that almost no one knows (tragically): Julia, by the Eurythmics. It used a simple handclap from the Linn to keep time, in the slow beautiful ballad.
I think the feature i like the most besides the obvious legedary sounds and the cool look is the ability to work without a quantization. Definetly gives you alot more freedom
WHY Does Everyone Keep Going on about PRINCE 🤴 😮😮......I Was Born in 1973 and became Dangerously Addicted to Music 🎶 by the age of 8/9 and after i Experienced the Revolution of the Sony Walkman for the first time ⌚ I never took them off 😊❤❤🎉... And when I HeaR the UNMISTAKABLE SOUND 🔊 OF THE LInnDRum ❤❤🎉😊... Im Emmediatly Transported Back to 82/83 and listening 👂 to New York hip hop artists like Grandmaster Flash, Run Dmc Even all the BreakDance Groups that came out of New York and the LinnDrum was Everywhere ❤😊
I will tell you THE secret... It’s not just about sampling the sounds and playing them back in a soft synth. It is about the split millisecond timing of how all the attacks of the samples line up with each other when they are quantized. That’s what really made this machine what it is. The way the kick and snare and hit hat line up when quantized. This is a BIG deal. If Behringer is going to clone it, they had better understand this and match it up with a scope or it won’t really have the magic feel of a LinnDrum.
The greatest drum machine in the world is now free in your apple garage band with amazing acoustic kits and all the vintage drum machines and up to 32 sequencer tracks My how times have changed
This is so cool. VIntage music production gear is always so fascinating. Making music using this type of gear actually required knowledge and know how. Nowadays you don't have to know what you're doing in the least bit, just load a preset and the majority of the work is done for you.
Yea because VST's are any different.. Actually, they are by far more complex nowadays And dont act like presets didnt exist lol I bet the minority of people created patches themselves back in the days, or atleast just edited the presets.
I didn't have a Linn Drum (had an Alesis HR-16), and I used to pan the open hi-hat hard left and the closed hi-hat hard right without any reverb. it would give the drum track this pretty cool spatial presence without masking any other tracks. Sort of made the drums feel a bit more 'immediate'.
You Spin me Round (like a record) used the LM-1, as the cowbell was tuned up. Other songs which used the LM-1 are Don't You Want Me, Relax, When Doves Cry to name a few.
that length feature is something i never knew about, that would come in handy on the (Linn designed) MPC60, editing length quickly and easily is its weakest point as a (drum) sampler. Also didn't know that the accents for certain sounds were provided via the buttons themselves, and not programmed by the user. I like that and I might incorporate that same idea into some of my Linn style MPC programs
TR808, and the linndrum = the iconic asskicking pair of the 1980s. :D nearly every song that had electronic drums in the 80s had one of those two machines. Or, a Simmons drum set. :)
Forgive my dumdum question, but what's the appeal of these older, expensive machines anymore if you can sample them or source the sound for free online nowadays?
Its not a dumdum question...though a machine like this appeals to you or it does not. Maybe its nostalgia, hands on functionality...working with hardware. The extra extra authenticity of the sounds.. it stays valuable also for the record after you purchased it. I would say though that if you just as cool with having a vst or you wonder why sampling the sounds isn't the same thing then such a machine probably doesnt appeal to you...and you wont get a satisfying answer. I wouldn't break the bank for it either...but behringer is doing a cheap clone of it with sampling capabilty...I might go for that.
most people DO sample the source if they like the sound, the appeal is pretty much just owning the actual synth. You can hear him say "for its time", he knows the sounds aren't highest quality so its not exactly practical but its cool to be able to say you own this period piece
David Moufang Or Move D Used A LinnDrum LM-2 Drum Machine & A Roland TR-707 for his tracks in the present. He also used a Roland TR-808 & A Roland TR-909 in the past around the mid 1990’s. Move D brought me here.
Thank you for the awesome videos Doctor Mix. This piece of equipment is very interesting. I checked it out on Ebay and they are selling for no less than 5k. Seems like a solid investment for sure considering how many mega stars produced hits with them. Great content.
It's like the perfect drummer without the alcohol and drug issues
Yeah, you can place a bottle and a mirror covered with coke on the table next to it, no issues!
As a drummer I agree with this statement.
perfect dual for a junky mediocre dm programmer
And deviant drummer behavior. You can pass out drunk around your linn drum
HAH!!!!
Now add a ton of reverb and it will become the most 80's sound you'll ever hear.
Sometimes I put a gated reverb effect on it. It sounds great.
on that snare lmao yeah
onesyphorus Ὀνησίφορος yes Snare and toms. Kick not so often.
I suggest a vst called verbiage. Put it on the snare and teleport back to 1982.
Yes with a gate reverb haha 😜
the coolest part of your instruments, no digital display of what is going on. It feels like inside a submarine
I found an LM-1 on Ebay for $6,000. Amazing machine.
You're right though. Feels like the inside of a sub for sure. Awesome. I have an old Drumulator.
Have you seen the behind the synths of deadpool or stranger things? Those rooms are full of synths I've always thought it looked like a spaceship but submarines definitely come to mind
I've never been inside a submarine
Submarines have digital displays though
This is a drum machine Behringer should really clone , the Tr-808 and 909 are instrumental also. The LinnDrum played a huge part in pop music and EDM . It’s often overlooked.
I got it on my mpc samples
oooh that's where the samples named LN* in Fruity Loops belong to
@@vecvan Aw watching the electronic music bbs grow up *sniff*
Behringer did a video where they mimic the sounds of Thriller but use a RD8, their TR 808 clone. The guy mentions the Linndrum and says "we should clone that" and looks away in thought as if it's a hit.
TETSUOOO!!!
Really great presentation, I used to pair one of these with my DX7 and just jam for hours like it was the 1980s :)
"Like the wind"))
This has me reliving my childhood. Being born in 1979 the1980's was such a fun decade so when I hear any sound that harkens back to those glorious days I get engulfed with nostalgia and want to cry too. God I miss the 80's!!
Still holds well today. Great drum machine. Also you could upgrade it easy. The top just flips up and you could change the ic chips. All the best synths and drum machines were made back in the 80s.
What a legendary machine. I still got samples of it in my library. Such a unique sound.
F. Lashby Same. Got the samples in my Digitakt right now.
Do you know where I can get samples from at all?
I've been looking for a decent source of Linn drum plus other drum machines like the Oberheim, 808 & 909 etc if you know of any that don't cost the earth.
Cheers 👍
@@JammyGit FREE and Top quality right here www.f9-audio.com/collections/all-products/products/trinity_v1
@@JammyGit samples.kb6.de but iirc the roland/boss kits were getting deleted from his servers so he stopped re-uploading but a small donation gets you access to a huge library of drum machines. I've even donated a few kits to the cause.
Prince was a master at programming the Linn. Though I believe he had and prefered the LM-1
He used the Linndrum on 'Possessed' but everything else was pretty much an LM-1.
Lachlan Mornard and Erotic City
Also he overdub live drums
He still had his LM-1 at Paisley Park in Studio A.
He did it himself. When he let other people programme for him in later years (Kirk Johnson) the results were naff
57 years old Remeber this little " f.....kr" What a machine!!!! Thnx bro for upload Great memories Greetings from GREECE
Props not just for showing it, but also the amazing playing! Always on point
The Linndrum and the Simmons SDSV is the perfect combination for the 80'S drum sound.
Didn't have a Linndrum no more but still have the Simmons SDSV.
Best drum machine ever. If a reproduction of the Limn and the DMX came out I’d be in heaven.
Behringer is making one
Best is the 808😂
I was a young man in the 80's and iam still amazed by the music. The Linn drum machine made it happen. Thank you for showing me how it wa done. Mich love to you💖🎼🤩🙏🌞.
Roger Linn. This and the MPC wow
And now the Linnstrument!
CockatooDude mehhhh
I actually owned one of these back in the early '90's, with the MIDI upgrade....and for some crazy reason decided to SELL it when I was moving to a new place. As the dude was on his way to come and get it I was already having sellers remorse...but felt too guilty to tell him no after he arrived to buy it. (and I hate to say I listed and sold it for only $300!! Arrggg) Still one of the pieces of gear I wish I had kept around. All the real-time controls were very cool and the sound is classic.
The LinnDrum hi-hat was heard in the Kenny Loggins/Steve Perry song "Don't Fight It" (1982), Tears for Fears song "Shout" (1984) and the Rugrats/All Grown Up! song "You're a Friend to Me" (2001).
Doctor Mix was a magician in a past life. Presentation and Entertainment.
Such a crunchy sound, especially when tuned down. Love it. You're a lucky man!
Interesting fact - it was never called the LM-2. The LM-1 stood for Linn/Moffett-1. Alex Moffett had left the company by the time Roger Linn made the second machine, so it was just called "Linn Drum". 😀
Uhhhh interesting!!!!!
...Also, the Linndrum wasn't meant to completely replace drummers in songs. It was just meant as a practice/substitude machine during rehearsals.
well the 80s already started when this device was released and i remember when it was released and it was never advertised as a rehearsal device. Just a real isntrument for some real drumwork. There were enough bands that never used drummers or combined them. It was never ment as a replacement to them,
if demand for it is high enough, maybe behringer can make a decent and affordable clone of it...:)
first jupiter8
a massive salute to howard jones, nik kershaw, hubert kah, men without hats, kajagoogoo, irene cara, eurythmics, yazoo, hayzee fanteyzee, mike oldfield, adam ant, prince, a ha, and many others; HAIL TO THE KINGS BABE😍
Prince used woman on percussion and drumset...Sheila Escovedo..
Dont forget gary numan, soft cell and Thompson twins
Bought a LinnDrum when it first came out. Of course, this was in the pre-MIDI days. Later I had Forat "MIDI-fy" it which brought it into the modern age. I donated it to the Museum of Making Music about 10 years ago. What a great instrument.
Love the sound of this thing. Do you know where can I get the samples for it so I can use it in my DAW?
In probably September 2022, when I was at the Boca Raton pool, I heard the LinnDrum in some probably 1986 song.
You absolutely hit it out of the park with this video. Thank you for uploading this. I love all your videos.
I've never seen how it works, so thank you. Impressive drumming btw.
The LinnDrum was heard in the 1991 Saved by the Bell version of some song.
And 6 years later, Behringer have released their clone of the LM-1 / LinnDrum, complete with - according to the manual - extra sounds from the Sequential DrumTracks and Simmons SDS! I pre-ordered mine this morning (mid-December 2024) and should receive it at the end of... February. It's still worth the wait.
Enjoy
It‘s a clone of the LM-2, I think.
The masterpiece... and a model for all the following machines. Thank you Roger ! And thanks Dr Mix, always a plaisure.
What an awesome workflow. I can't believe we have to put up with what modern samplers and grooveboxes offer.
That delete horn, though… 😂
it's the hardest sound to work into the mix
**BAP**
Yeah- so obnoxious!!
Even though what?
*boop!*
Literally ALL Miami Bass hits wich I danced back in the days was made in this Linn Drum. Nice video!!!
You got me flowing like an 80s rapper on this!
Thanx for teaching me the Linn drums. Always wanted to learn them since I heard Peter Gabriel use them.
Each of those strikes have been heard a million times over, yet have never gotten stale at least to me. These are some of the first digital files to go viral.
The best drum machine ever, imo. I load LinnDrum samples into every sampler I’ve owned. Got them in my Digitakt right now, and Volca Sample, and my iPad.
That's amazing, that so old drum machine have got so many functions!
Should do Maniac - Michael Sambello
i dont know what/who that is, but i agree
@@onion6667 Maniac from the film Flashdance-1983
she’s a maniac, MANIAC
That was programmed on the LM1, not the LinnDrum! :)
Brilliant Sound track.... Giorgio Moroder played on quite a few songs on that Soundtrack....the guy is a genius
Why do the 1980s legendary drum machines all look so much fun!
That reminds me of the Miami Vice opening theme.
Seems Prince used the LinnDrum as well, when he had an idea for a song, which was probably 24/24/7 :)
Great, one of Prince's main instrumentation to realize mid time sound creations. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He did not use this machine.
@@SPAZZOID100 Interesting !What kind of drum machine(s) he really used instead especially along his 1999 and Purple Rain era?
Queen of Electro/Funk, Post Disco, Boogie 💯
The LinnDrum was heard in the song “The King of Wishful Thinking” (1990).
I really think the rhythm and sequencing behind this machine is what made it special, not the sounds, it has such good feel to it, has that 'bounce'.
....On a drum machine or sequencer 'that feel' is called 'Swing'.
@@RussRockwell or "dynamics" in general
so amazing. this thing has a groove like no other, so perfectly imperfect. we used to pay somebody by the hour to program it in the eighties. it was impossible to afford at that time.
Perfect for italo disco and spacesynth music. I have VST version of the LinnDrum and it's a perfect drum machine.
What's the name of the VST??
@@andriealinsangao613 Junn's Factory JM-1, it's one of the best LinnDrum's replicas for DAW software. I strongly recommend it, if you want to start with electronic music.
808: Here's some cowbells for ya!
Linn Drum: Hold my beer...
There's also a great VST/AU for LinnDrum, by ALYJAMES LAB. It's pretty accurate since it uses EPROM images.
bobacks yeah, and I prefer the sound of the LM-1 to the LinnDrum (LM-2), but the Vprom can also load eprom bin files from the other classic drum machines of the time!
That's right. I often use the DMX EPROMs.
Also want to add the Addictive Drums VST with the Reel Machines add-on, as a good contender. Great quality sounds with great options
The LinnDrum was heard in the 1989 Hess toy fire truck commercial.
One of my fave uses of the linn is one of the most stark and basic, in a song that almost no one knows (tragically): Julia, by the Eurythmics. It used a simple handclap from the Linn to keep time, in the slow beautiful ballad.
So Glad Behringer is making one of those again !
ROCK MASTER SCOTT "THE ROOF IS ON FIRE!!!!🔥
We don't need no steenking water, mang.
YES FINALY!!!!!!
The LinnDrum was heard in the song "Miracles" (1982).
a legendary machine operated by a legend
I think the feature i like the most besides the obvious legedary sounds and the cool look is the ability to work without a quantization. Definetly gives you alot more freedom
My favorite drum machine...I loved mine. That PRINCE sound...
Yeah, was really easy to use...very intuitive...and that sound...rich too
Nope. He used the LM-1.
I used to love this little baby .
Put in the low clap 👏
I was actually at a Halloween party in Roger Linn's house once. I think he played some theremin for the guests there.
Dr Mix is the master of the finger drum.
I have the Yamaha RX5 which does a similar job. But I’m waiting for the Behringer clone to come out this year hopefully.
WHY Does Everyone Keep Going on about PRINCE 🤴 😮😮......I Was Born in 1973 and became Dangerously Addicted to Music 🎶 by the age of 8/9 and after i Experienced the Revolution of the Sony Walkman for the first time ⌚ I never took them off 😊❤❤🎉... And when I HeaR the UNMISTAKABLE SOUND 🔊 OF THE LInnDRum ❤❤🎉😊... Im Emmediatly Transported Back to 82/83 and listening 👂 to New York hip hop artists like Grandmaster Flash, Run Dmc Even all the BreakDance Groups that came out of New York and the LinnDrum was Everywhere ❤😊
You make it look so easy. Now I want one. I am not a drummer. I am not a musician. But now I want one.
I just love sampling this is my music
THE C O W B E L L
The Neon Judgement used that fabulous Linn drum machine a lot !
I like how from time to time he goes like "oh actually this is good"
The LinnDrum was heard in Human (1986) where the Roland S-50 snare drum is heard.
You know its good when hw waves his hands to the beat
I will tell you THE secret... It’s not just about sampling the sounds and playing them back in a soft synth. It is about the split millisecond timing of how all the attacks of the samples line up with each other when they are quantized. That’s what really made this machine what it is. The way the kick and snare and hit hat line up when quantized. This is a BIG deal. If Behringer is going to clone it, they had better understand this and match it up with a scope or it won’t really have the magic feel of a LinnDrum.
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Ha ha! I like the way his hands move to the beats! 😄
The greatest drum machine in the world is now free in your apple garage band with amazing acoustic kits and all the vintage drum machines and up to 32 sequencer tracks
My how times have changed
This is so cool. VIntage music production gear is always so fascinating. Making music using this type of gear actually required knowledge and know how. Nowadays you don't have to know what you're doing in the least bit, just load a preset and the majority of the work is done for you.
Yea because VST's are any different..
Actually, they are by far more complex nowadays
And dont act like presets didnt exist lol
I bet the minority of people created patches themselves back in the days, or atleast just edited the presets.
😮
Men at work, down under, came to mind instantly.
your right thumb has an insane bend to it that i can only imagine comes from decades of drum pad pummeling
I didn't have a Linn Drum (had an Alesis HR-16), and I used to pan the open hi-hat hard left and the closed hi-hat hard right without any reverb. it would give the drum track this pretty cool spatial presence without masking any other tracks. Sort of made the drums feel a bit more 'immediate'.
The HR 16 has a great sound
The LinnDrum and the Fairlight.....can't get more 80's than that
I'm sooooooo jealous 😀 Awesome!👍
I had the bassline for "Newcleus - Jam On it", start playing in my head as you made that drum loop.
The Take On Me Drum from A-ha.
Lol, i remember that's Synthmania video, when he programmed "You Spin Me Right Round"
Swensen1337 hahah..yeah!
You Spin me Round (like a record) used the LM-1, as the cowbell was tuned up. Other songs which used the LM-1 are Don't You Want Me, Relax, When Doves Cry to name a few.
@@akira808state4 Actually spin me round uses a Linn 9000, snare is from the 9000. And the rest.
Always reminds me of the intro to Head Like A Hole by NIN and I Can Change by LCD. Great sound.
damn your vids are sick. a channel all about keyboards and synths is just what I needed.
You are really the Best, Dr. Mix!!
Some big names got so used to the sequencer that they actually modified the unit to control sampler machines, but this is another story...
that length feature is something i never knew about, that would come in handy on the (Linn designed) MPC60, editing length quickly and easily is its weakest point as a (drum) sampler. Also didn't know that the accents for certain sounds were provided via the buttons themselves, and not programmed by the user. I like that and I might incorporate that same idea into some of my Linn style MPC programs
Ohhh man it's sooooo 80s. I love it
great job!
Thanks DR Mix
this instrument is amazing!
New Order,I can hear here the spirit of your songs!
TR808, and the linndrum = the iconic asskicking pair of the 1980s. :D nearly every song that had electronic drums in the 80s had one of those two machines. Or, a Simmons drum set. :)
Forgive my dumdum question, but what's the appeal of these older, expensive machines anymore if you can sample them or source the sound for free online nowadays?
Its not a dumdum question...though a machine like this appeals to you or it does not. Maybe its nostalgia, hands on functionality...working with hardware.
The extra extra authenticity of the sounds.. it stays valuable also for the record after you purchased it.
I would say though that if you just as cool with having a vst or you wonder why sampling the sounds isn't the same thing then such a machine probably doesnt appeal to you...and you wont get a satisfying answer.
I wouldn't break the bank for it either...but behringer is doing a cheap clone of it with sampling capabilty...I might go for that.
most people DO sample the source if they like the sound, the appeal is pretty much just owning the actual synth. You can hear him say "for its time", he knows the sounds aren't highest quality so its not exactly practical but its cool to be able to say you own this period piece
Its for sentimental value
The LinnDrum was heard in the 1997 Sesame Street version of Macarena (1993/1995).
David Moufang Or Move D Used A LinnDrum LM-2 Drum Machine & A Roland TR-707 for his tracks in the present. He also used a Roland TR-808 & A Roland TR-909 in the past around the mid 1990’s. Move D brought me here.
I'm pretty sure Thriller was made on that.
Sounds like Thriller.
It was AYYYYY
Nope. That was an LM-1.
Wow. It just has THAT sound.
Your hands moving with the groove is great
Very nice story and demonstration which makes me discover and appreciate this monument. Thx
Thank you for the awesome videos Doctor Mix. This piece of equipment is very interesting. I checked it out on Ebay and they are selling for no less than 5k. Seems like a solid investment for sure considering how many mega stars produced hits with them. Great content.
In 8:44 the hi-hat groove is like used in "party time lover" recorded by Steve Wonder
The Linn Drum can sound really nice with a chain of Pre amp, EQ , compressor, tape, compressor, limiter. Something like that.