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Matt Mullen

"I'd have preferred for Uli to ask my permission. Even if he thinks it is legal, I question whether it is ethical": Roger Linn slams Behringer's unauthorized LinnDrum clone

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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.

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