By elmacaco
Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:52 pm
Hey Clint, I like how you're thinking on this, I think it'll go well.
Two thoughts for now. One, no digital version, not at first. Definitely not PDF. It'll be a crime of convenience, if I was waiting for copies to become available, and my boy hits me with the PDF, I'm gonna read it, and then the hard copy becomes less of a priority. Also, it is a book about hardware drum machines in a laptop virtual instrument world. There is a certain elegance and poetry to producing an object and not a vst version, so to speak. Scans won't be as much of a problem, people are lazy and an official digital release would be much better. What you could do is later release a digital version that has video and other digital content, might be too much.
The first note repeat is on the Linn LM-1 IIRC, LinnDrum definitely. If you look at its faceplate you will see many mpc features there.
I think you could tell the story starting with roger linn designing his early drum machines. The origins of the concepts, stories of stuff that happened along the way.
His first experiments he took apart a Roland rhythm box, cr78 I think to control with his sequencer before he had the sampling parts.
Take it quick but with substance through the linn 9000, which was amazing, very ahead of its time technology wise too. I have been inside one and they have flying wires and kludgey looking fixes all over. But that added most of the main features. The sp-12 and 1200 were a refinement of the linn 9000 concept, emu was already making cheap knock off linn drums in the drumulator, the sp-12 just hit on a great balance of those features and stellar user interface.
The mpc then took it a step further in he sequencer department. I think it is probably the most popular non computer midi sequencer on earth. That is a hell of an accomplishment.
I also think you will have to include the mpc 3000. The degree is up to you. The fact that when the 3000 came out they ported the software to the older model is a great example of a manufacturers legacy support that cares about what they are making and not how much.
Also the software is so similar, that it will already be of use to 3000 owners. There are also more 3000 owners than 60, and so if you offer something to that community you will definitely sell more books.
I'll make more suggestions as I think of stuff. I have a fair bit on he technical side too, usage techniques and internal workings and repair, a lot of it is in the sticky bible here, but I can help organize it etc.
Also whoever said to do new interviews with machine specific technique questions to the big 60 users would be excellent. A window into it for those who don't use it as well.
Good luck
Two thoughts for now. One, no digital version, not at first. Definitely not PDF. It'll be a crime of convenience, if I was waiting for copies to become available, and my boy hits me with the PDF, I'm gonna read it, and then the hard copy becomes less of a priority. Also, it is a book about hardware drum machines in a laptop virtual instrument world. There is a certain elegance and poetry to producing an object and not a vst version, so to speak. Scans won't be as much of a problem, people are lazy and an official digital release would be much better. What you could do is later release a digital version that has video and other digital content, might be too much.
The first note repeat is on the Linn LM-1 IIRC, LinnDrum definitely. If you look at its faceplate you will see many mpc features there.
I think you could tell the story starting with roger linn designing his early drum machines. The origins of the concepts, stories of stuff that happened along the way.
His first experiments he took apart a Roland rhythm box, cr78 I think to control with his sequencer before he had the sampling parts.
Take it quick but with substance through the linn 9000, which was amazing, very ahead of its time technology wise too. I have been inside one and they have flying wires and kludgey looking fixes all over. But that added most of the main features. The sp-12 and 1200 were a refinement of the linn 9000 concept, emu was already making cheap knock off linn drums in the drumulator, the sp-12 just hit on a great balance of those features and stellar user interface.
The mpc then took it a step further in he sequencer department. I think it is probably the most popular non computer midi sequencer on earth. That is a hell of an accomplishment.
I also think you will have to include the mpc 3000. The degree is up to you. The fact that when the 3000 came out they ported the software to the older model is a great example of a manufacturers legacy support that cares about what they are making and not how much.
Also the software is so similar, that it will already be of use to 3000 owners. There are also more 3000 owners than 60, and so if you offer something to that community you will definitely sell more books.
I'll make more suggestions as I think of stuff. I have a fair bit on he technical side too, usage techniques and internal workings and repair, a lot of it is in the sticky bible here, but I can help organize it etc.
Also whoever said to do new interviews with machine specific technique questions to the big 60 users would be excellent. A window into it for those who don't use it as well.
Good luck
