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Interviews with Roger Linn
Instrument designer and musician Roger Linn is perhaps most famous for inventing the first drum machines (in the early 1980s) to use digitally sampled drum sounds, the LM-1 and LinnDrum. In the years since, Linn teamed up with Akai to invent the MPC-series of drum machines/sequencers, and lately Linn has turned his attention to making Continue reading
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The Sound Of Auto Tune
You know the Auto Tune sound when you hear it: it sounds artificial, electronic, not quite human enough, too perfect. Auto Tune is everywhere today, from TV commercials to hip hop to country music. It’s the Photoshop of the musical world. The technology was conceived by Andy Hildebrand, an engineer for Exxon who developed methods Continue reading
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The Hang Drum: Real and Virtual
Do you like the sounds of steel pans and gamelans? Then you might really be intrigued by the sound of the Hang, a percussion instrument created and hand-built by the Swiss company PANart (Felix Rohner and Sabina Scharer) since 2000. The Hang consists of two steel sheets welded together to make a convex shape, a little Continue reading
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