![]() ![]() It is still my favorite use of a drum machine, ever. The first time I ever heard a digital drum machine -a Linn LM-1 (and possibly even the first recording of one)- was on Herbie Hancock's "Textures," from Mr. If you really wanna capture the spirit of an early Prince recording I might recommend starting there just take whatever drum sounds you have at your disposal and funk 'em up! You stand as much of a chance of coming up with something really cool as you do starting with old Prince sounds, IMO. Hell, not even repeatable tempo! When Prince -or anyone- used a drum machine, it was "set it up for the session, lay it down, and you're done." There was no coming back to fix or change it next week (although you could, using FSK sync to replace the drum track entirely). That was "back in the day," when there was no recalling of drum tunings, FX settings, EQ. But a sample of a LinnDrum -even using groove templates- gets you no closer to the real thing than does a sample of a piano. If I thought they could be comprehensively sampled I'd list 'em all on eBay right now. I used to own the Akai MPC60 and Roland TR-808, and have worked with a dozen more. I currently own a Linn LM-1, a Linn 9000, an Oberheim DMX, an Akai MPC3000, and a Roland R8m and a Dynacord something-or-other (the latter two not actual drum "machines"). Some of theses machines were idiosyncratic, living beasts. There are two Akai MPC60 sets listed but the MPC60 came with four sets of sounds and, as sampler themselves, I might argue that they cannot really be said to "have" sounds. And the collection of Linn LM-1 sounds includes a crash cymbal but, due to memory constraints, the LM-1 didn't have one. The Linn LM-2 is listed, as well the LinnDrum. Taking a quick peak at the warbeats library. A coupla things to consider, about the massive collection at warbeats and about samples of drum machines in general. ![]()
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