
Last month, German gear manufacturer Behringer announced the release of LM Drum, an unauthorized sort-of-remake of the LinnDrum, the iconic drum machine designed by Roger Linn of Linn Electronics and released in 1982.
A landmark product in the history of music technology, LinnDrum was the successor to the Linn LM-1, itself the first drum machine to use samples of real drums and the first to quantize the user's playing. Both the LM-1 and LinnDrum became hugely popular with musicians throughout the '80s, featuring in songs from Michael Jackson, Prince, Gary Numan and many more.