How Roger Linn’s Drum Machines Shaped Five Decades of Music

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• EL

  @eltrainmusic · 3 months ago (edited) · pinned

  LM-1, LinnDrum, MPC, SP-1200, 404, Maschine, FL Studio…<br><br>What was the first machine or sampler that got you making beats? (The more obscure the better!)

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• LA

  @LandupSkydown · 3 months ago

  He’s such a humble guy, so very cool.

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• DR

  @DreadinNY · 3 months ago

  I &nbsp;STILL have my MPC 60 I used with Leaders of the New School and others. But I like my MPC 3000 even MORE

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• MA

  @MakeSomething · 3 months ago

  I will keep watching, liking, commenting and subscribing until this channel blows up. These videos are so damn good.

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• ES

  @esmooth919 · 3 months ago

  I tip my hat to Roger Linn for the MPC. Seeing so many producers use it to make their music, and seeing so many people finger drumming off of it, made me want to own one as an aspiring music producer. But when I was younger, I never found those things to be affordable.

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• BO

  @BoomDocs14K · 3 days ago

  Salute to Roger Linn! I can&apos;t say it enough. Guys that had a vision to create something that would inspire others to also create, are priceless for their contributions! Having an idea and vision is one thing, but bringing that vision to life deserves the utmost respect!

• GE

  @geevee7823 · 3 months ago

  I was after the SCSI interface for the MPC60 and the Akai distribution centre in my country didn&apos;t want to stock them, so I contacted Roger through regular mail (before internet) and his professionalism and kindness was just unparalleled.

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• AV

  @avace917 · 3 months ago (edited)

  A lot of people mention the MPC as a Hip Hop machine which it definitely is. Having said that it was used for RnB just as much if not more. I remember seeing the MIDI Studio in Keyboard Magazine in various NAMM and &quot;coming soon&quot; articles. Then the MPC60 appeared. I remember I demoed one at Sam Ash on 48th St. I was still in high school. Later, I learned at a friend&apos;s house who had one. The Help button eliminated the need for a manual. It was so easy.

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• OW

  @ownyourmasters7890 · 3 months ago

  Music is simply the fabric of life!

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• ZA

  @Zactivist · 3 months ago

  First of all, GREAT video! Super well done! Secondly: What can you say about Roger Linn? What an absolute musical and inventive genius of our time. It&apos;s an absolute joy to hear him talk about the songs that his inventions made possible.

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• TE

  @tekpic04 · 3 months ago

  The early days of hip hop music on wax used the Linn and Roland machine&apos;s.<br><br>Back then, UK soundsystem from the Bristol, &apos;Bristol Wildbunch&apos; AKA Massive Attack were using Linn.

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• ST

  @StottyDrummer · 3 months ago (edited)

  I was in the thick of this all through the 80s, had one of the first Simmons SDSV (paid cash to Dave Simmons at his flat lol), then a Linndrum, then later on tried an MPC60 to run and trigger midi parts live and generate my click track but found it actually fractionally slowed down over one beat on fast tempo songs if you had too many midi patch changes on the same beat (from memory I think the midi patch changes were applied sequentially so if you had loads of midi patch changes all on the same beat it actually slowed the beat down if it couldn’t fit them all into the beat at that tempo lol) so for live work I switched to an early model fully flight cased apple Mac running an Akai S1000 with the memory maxed out plus a Syquest external hard drive, not to mention using a Fairlight extensively in the studio alongside my acoustic set up, my gorgeous Tama acoustic kit with Ludwig Bronze hand hammered Snare and Sabian cymbals, all transported in huge rolling flight cases .... phew bloody hell the 80s lol, cheers all Stotty

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