According to a 2002 SOS article/interview, trying to support the Linn 9000 with a company as small as they were was what took the company under:
http://www.soundonsound.c...erlinn.asp

In the mid 80s, when Roger Linn liquidated Linn Electronics, the excess inventory was acquired by the Forat brothers (Bruce & Ben) who started their own company.
They started doing modifications on existing LinnDrums (MIDI ports, etc.) and eventually designed their own drum machine.

At the time, I worked for a company in the same industrial complex as Linn Electronics (along with 360 Systems, makers of early digital keyboards and the MIDI-Bass).
I got my LinnDrum from Ben Forat as a trade for allowing them to borrow my Roland 808 to sample sounds to use in their first drum machine.

It appears that they're doing limited production runs on their LinnDrum MIDI Kits: www.forat.com




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Tribal Records

Lets not forget that the Linn Electronics' last ever drum machine, the Linn 9000, is the direct ancestor of the entire Akai's MIDI/Music Production Center (MPC) series, beginning with the MPC 60. Roger Linn helps co-design it.

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It's too bad because they really did have the best electronic kick sound. It was the most advanced tech for the time but that's more or less what I thought, they had a great product but struggled to make it marketable.

I remember my friend Scott dreaming about saving up three grand to get one. I forget what the 808 cost on its release but seems to me it was way more affordable, something a bedroom musician could actually afford. Roland's electro drums were also way cheaper than Simmons drums and probably put them out of business too.

Those analog Linn and Simmons sounds were really cool, something physical about them that the later electro drums don't have. A Linn kick drum through a good PA feels like a kick in the teeth, it's like the difference betwen vinyl and MP3.

theAudience said:

According to a 2002 SOS article/interview, trying to support the Linn 9000 with a company as small as they were was what took the company under:
http://www.soundonsound.c...erlinn.asp

In the mid 80s, when Roger Linn liquidated Linn Electronics, the excess inventory was acquired by the Forat brothers (Bruce & Ben) who started their own company.
They started doing modifications on existing LinnDrums (MIDI ports, etc.) and eventually designed their own drum machine.

At the time, I worked for a company in the same industrial complex as Linn Electronics (along with 360 Systems, makers of early digital keyboards and the MIDI-Bass).
I got my LinnDrum from Ben Forat as a trade for allowing them to borrow my Roland 808 to sample sounds to use in their first drum machine.

It appears that they're doing limited production runs on their LinnDrum MIDI Kits: www.forat.com




Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

I hung out with Bruce Forat at his shop in Studio City a few years back. Such a cool guy. He showed me all the MPC's he was customizing for various hip-hop artists, Lil Jon's was in there at the time being painted red with "King Of Crunk" written on it in diamonds. RZA had one in there too with the Wu Tang logo on it.

He also showed me the Forat 9000 machine that he had made. Very cool.

Militant said:

I hung out with Bruce Forat at his shop in Studio City a few years back. Such a cool guy. He showed me all the MPC's he was customizing for various hip-hop artists, Lil Jon's was in there at the time being painted red with "King Of Crunk" written on it in diamonds. RZA had one in there too with the Wu Tang logo on it.

He also showed me the Forat 9000 machine that he had made. Very cool.

Bruce is a great guy. Haven't been down to his place in a while.

Which reminds me that I have something for him.



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Tribal Records

Bruce Forat has been a great friendly help, even over the phone.

Have you guys seen the new Linn Drum?

http://davesmithinstrumen...s/tempest/

It.is.AWESOME.

Mutts

Why even mess with trying 2 aquire 1 these days?

The entire set can be found in Kontact 5 from Native Instruments.

muttley said:

Have you guys seen the new Linn Drum?

http://davesmithinstrumen...s/tempest/

It.is.AWESOME.

Mutts

......and I missed out buying one! I've never knew anything about it until weeks ago from reading THIS:

http://www.vintagesynth.c...empest.php

[img:$uid]http://www.vintagesynth.com/dsi/dsi_tempest.jpg[/img:$uid]

Graycap23 said:

Why even mess with trying 2 aquire 1 these days?

The entire set can be found in Kontact 5 from Native Instruments.

Plently of FL Studio users & Orion users can tell you that Linn Drum samples are THE easiest to find after spending enough time web surfing.

TonyVanDam said:

muttley said:

Have you guys seen the new Linn Drum?

http://davesmithinstrumen...s/tempest/

It.is.AWESOME.

Mutts

......and I missed out buying one! I've never knew anything about it until weeks ago from reading THIS:

http://www.vintagesynth.c...empest.php

[img:$uid]http://www.vintagesynth.com/dsi/dsi_tempest.jpg[/img:$uid]

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/search.php?s=tempest&Go=Search