I wanted to make this since I first dreamed of making sounds for a Linn drum back in 1999. That was to have daft punk sounds in the Linn drum. Then I had a great idea to add my hero J Dilla sounds to a Linn drum. So I made stacked sounds, and put them one chip.

This is the exact drums Daft Punk sampled for Da Funk, J-Dilla Drums, and Elektron Sounds inside the Linn drum. I made the EPROMs using a Oberheim Prommer. It was not an easy task. But I took layered drums. Sampled them, stacked them, then sampled them agsim as a one shot,turned them to binary, then program them for the Linn drum. So it’s like a room full of people clapping. But it sounds like the 8 Simmons Clap trap.

I loved daft punk growing up. I’m from Detroit. I use to hang around J-Dilla at the time. I owned a Linn drum since I was a teenager. It was my dream to program sounds for a Linn drum. I spent thousands of hours programming a Linn drum and often times wondered how to make my Linn drum sound like daft punk. Well I did it. Instead of using a SP-1200, these are the sounds inside a Linn drum.

Kick and snare are the daft punk drums.

The hat is Machine drum.

Kicks from a machine drum are in the toms and congas.

The J Dilla claps and snares are the same exact method J Dilla would use on his Drums. After reading the book “dilla time” I was inspired to make the drums a little bit off. If you look at the actual original binary files of the Linn Drum on a spectral graph or analyze the way form, you will notice that the drums are not perfect. Prince always said you need air to make it an instrument so I gave the samples a little bit of room in the beginning so it kind of sounds off but it’s not off because you can program the timing with the pitch now exactly like a clap trap, which is ironic because that’s what I heard where the Drum clap originally came from.

If you done want the machine drum hats. I can reprogram them with 4 different J Dilla sounds. (I made a bunch I will post on reverb another time)