Linn Drum and embarassment

The was a time when using the Linn Drum was a cool thing.
Looking more like a sound mixer this machine generated about 16 tracks of sampled percussive noises.

Here is the inventor Roger Linn that changed popular music over night with 1 invention.

This is what it does

A short background about this machine is documented here:

Mikel Rouse did a whole album using Linn Drum. The guy programmed every beat making this album somewhat classical. He has a long list of music release:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel_Rouse

Many pop songs from 80's used Linn Drum. I

n this short history of production. You would know Queens Radio Gaga or Prince's music and a whole lot of other famous acts.

Here Phil Collin is doing some work on Lin. drums with Genesis.

So this is how it is programmed:

 

This machine basically make the user classical upon programming them.

The original drum sample was taken mostly from Peter Frampton's drummer Art Wood who was a friend of the inventor.  Art Wood himself worked on sound engineering:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939552/

Riger Linn is latest venture is a midi controller:

http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html

 

He also made guitar pedals called AdrenaLinn III

http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/adrenalinn-iii.html