Sounds great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRD8f5BJSsw

It has great features and layout too. Prince better giddy up and feature it on 20Ten deluxe

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he'd better order one right now

he's in dire need of sprucing up his beat programming anyway, this might help.

Roger has been working on this for a few years now, in collaboration with Dave Smith.

Awesome. I want one! And Roger has good taste in beer, too.

Roger Linn is a genius.

If any of you guys know of Bruce Forat in LA, he's a friend of mine. He was one of the original engineers working for Roger Linn, and now he's the guy the customises all the MPC's for the hip-hop producers and the main MPC repair guy in the world. He had Lil Jon's MPC in his shop last time I was there, he was customizing it to say "King Of Crunk" written on it, and adding diamonds to it. He showed me some stuff he was doing for RZA as well. Real cool guy.

Anyway Bruce has ALL the drum machines in his workshop. Customised LinnDrumm's, LM-1's.... he even built a machine himself that he sells called the Forat-9000. I believe it's a heavily modded Linn9000.

I love drum machines. This TEMPEST machine looks and sounds REALLY good.

Too kewl! I want one

I had assumed what was originally called LinnDrum 2 (later nick named the Boom Click) would never see the light of day. This is awesome news. Earlier rumors claimed it would include all of the original LM-1 sounds. I wonder if that's the case? I just shelled out big bucks for a second LM-1 (one with the front-panel tuning mod), so I'll totally kick myself if it's possible to make this sound like an LM-1.

I love how it retains the downward slope design of the LM-1 and LM-2 as well as the (faux?) wood sides.

Militant said:

Roger Linn is a genius.

If any of you guys know of Bruce Forat in LA, he's a friend of mine. He was one of the original engineers working for Roger Linn, and now he's the guy the customises all the MPC's for the hip-hop producers and the main MPC repair guy in the world. He had Lil Jon's MPC in his shop last time I was there, he was customizing it to say "King Of Crunk" written on it, and adding diamonds to it. He showed me some stuff he was doing for RZA as well. Real cool guy.

Anyway Bruce has ALL the drum machines in his workshop. Customised LinnDrumm's, LM-1's.... he even built a machine himself that he sells called the Forat-9000. I believe it's a heavily modded Linn9000.

I love drum machines. This TEMPEST machine looks and sounds REALLY good.

You know Bruce personally? Awesome guy. He did the independent sidestick tuning mod on my LM-2. I'm going to send him my second LM-1 soon. My first LM-1 had tom chips in place of the congas, so I had 4 toms (which I liked). I snagged an LM-1 with the front panel tuning mod recently, so I'm gong to have him add toggle switches so I can switch between having 4 toms and 4 congas. He's great for answering questions. His rates are pretty reasonable, too, but shipping those machines can cost way more than Bruce's work.

PicassoFace said:

I had assumed what was originally called LinnDrum 2 (later nick named the Boom Click) would never see the light of day. This is awesome news. Earlier rumors claimed it would include all of the original LM-1 sounds. I wonder if that's the case? I just shelled out big bucks for a second LM-1 (one with the front-panel tuning mod), so I'll totally kick myself if it's possible to make this sound like an LM-1.

I love how it retains the downward slope design of the LM-1 and LM-2 as well as the (faux?) wood sides.

You have a LM1? WOW! That's awesome! I would love to own one someday. Even if this new machine has the sounds, what you have is still a serious item. And obviously worth a lot more! That is so cool!

Nice..It was jus funny seing an old man making funky beats..Pretty cool though.

PicassoFace said:

You know Bruce personally? Awesome guy. He did the independent sidestick tuning mod on my LM-2. I'm going to send him my second LM-1 soon. My first LM-1 had tom chips in place of the congas, so I had 4 toms (which I liked). I snagged an LM-1 with the front panel tuning mod recently, so I'm gong to have him add toggle switches so I can switch between having 4 toms and 4 congas. He's great for answering questions. His rates are pretty reasonable, too, but shipping those machines can cost way more than Bruce's work.

Yep. It was funny how it happened actually. My cousin had talked to him and ordered some parts he needed to fix his MPC3000 because something had broken. Then, just a few months later, I was in LA making a documentary for the BBC and we had gone to Studio City to do a few interviews. Left one studio that we were in for some interviews, walked down the street a little bit and lo and behold, there we are right outside Bruce's shop. So of course, I went in, there wasn't anyone else around, the BBC folks I was with didn't even come in because they didn't even know what I was talking about or understand why I was so excited lol. So I kicked it with Bruce for about half an hour, he remembered sending the stuff to my cousin, and he showed me all the different things he was working on. He was VERY proud of the Forat-9000 machines, you could tell it was a labor of love for him. And as a hip-hop fan, it was a total blast to see machines he was customizing for RZA, Lil Jon, and other cats. He was really cool and really friendly. I finally got the BBC guys to come in and take some photos of me and him.

This was the final day I was out in LA making this documentary. So, about a week later I'm asking the BBC to give me all the photos from the trip. Somehow or other, they managed to lose ALL the photos from the final day of the trip, which is just so lame. I was so pissed off because not only was that the day I met Bruce, it was the same day I met and interviewed Quincy Jones's son, the hip-hop producer and filmmaker QD3 at his studio. So I don't have any photos of me and him, either

That's awesome that you have both the LM1 and LM2. I really hope to be able to get some of those machines myself someday. Where are you based? Have you used them on anything that's been released commercially? I would love to hear something.

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PicassoFace said:

I had assumed what was originally called LinnDrum 2 (later nick named the Boom Click) would never see the light of day. This is awesome news. Earlier rumors claimed it would include all of the original LM-1 sounds. I wonder if that's the case? I just shelled out big bucks for a second LM-1 (one with the front-panel tuning mod), so I'll totally kick myself if it's possible to make this sound like an LM-1.

I love how it retains the downward slope design of the LM-1 and LM-2 as well as the (faux?) wood sides.

it would be so cool if it had the origonal linn drum sounds

Militant said:

PicassoFace said:

You know Bruce personally? Awesome guy. He did the independent sidestick tuning mod on my LM-2. I'm going to send him my second LM-1 soon. My first LM-1 had tom chips in place of the congas, so I had 4 toms (which I liked). I snagged an LM-1 with the front panel tuning mod recently, so I'm gong to have him add toggle switches so I can switch between having 4 toms and 4 congas. He's great for answering questions. His rates are pretty reasonable, too, but shipping those machines can cost way more than Bruce's work.

Yep. It was funny how it happened actually. My cousin had talked to him and ordered some parts he needed to fix his MPC3000 because something had broken. Then, just a few months later, I was in LA making a documentary for the BBC and we had gone to Studio City to do a few interviews. Left one studio that we were in for some interviews, walked down the street a little bit and lo and behold, there we are right outside Bruce's shop. So of course, I went in, there wasn't anyone else around, the BBC folks I was with didn't even come in because they didn't even know what I was talking about or understand why I was so excited lol. So I kicked it with Bruce for about half an hour, he remembered sending the stuff to my cousin, and he showed me all the different things he was working on. He was VERY proud of the Forat-9000 machines, you could tell it was a labor of love for him. And as a hip-hop fan, it was a total blast to see machines he was customizing for RZA, Lil Jon, and other cats. He was really cool and really friendly. I finally got the BBC guys to come in and take some photos of me and him.

This was the final day I was out in LA making this documentary. So, about a week later I'm asking the BBC to give me all the photos from the trip. Somehow or other, they managed to lose ALL the photos from the final day of the trip, which is just so lame. I was so pissed off because not only was that the day I met Bruce, it was the same day I met and interviewed Quincy Jones's son, the hip-hop producer and filmmaker QD3 at his studio. So I don't have any photos of me and him, either

That's awesome that you have both the LM1 and LM2. I really hope to be able to get some of those machines myself someday. Where are you based? Have you used them on anything that's been released commercially? I would love to hear something.

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I'm in Florida. This is going to sound crazy. I'm not a musician or anything. I just became fascinated with the Linns for their Prince connection and their sheer rarity. I couldn't find an LM-1, so I finally bought an LM-2 for lack of anything else. It was DOA, and Bruce fixed it (after 3 local techs couldn't do anything with it), and he did the independent sidestick tuning mod. It really didn't sound too all that Prince like to me (save for the rimshot), but it's cool to have, and I like it for what it is.

A few months later, I found an LM-1 on eBay, and decided to buy it (even though it was a total unnecessary splurge). The guy that owned it before had a recording studio, and he sent me a list of artists who used the LM-1 in his studio. Off the top of my head, he said the LM-1 I now own was used on the Atlantic Starr song "Always", among others.

I really toy around with my Linns in my free time. I may start toying around with Garage Band or some keyboard synths and incorporate the Linn with it. I have a couple of friends who are musicians, so I might work on something with them as well. Right now, I just make simple standalone patterns. They're really not all that exciting, to be honest. I can send you links to a few if you're interested.