Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Timing

Re:Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Ti... by leviathant on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:45PM (#34445369)

Can you talk a little bit about the origin of the sequencer in the Tempest? As in, did you start from scratch, were you looking to emulate a particular preexisting model? I recognize that the Tempest was built on different hardware than anything that I presume Roger had ever worked on, but I imagine he contributed to some conceptualization that you then had to translate into a functioning OS.

A long time ago now, I wrote a crude Javascript emulation of a Boss DR-110, and when I got to the sequencer part, I threw in the towel because it seemed to be a step beyond the "hobby" level of effort I was willing to commit, lol.

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Re:Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Ti... by IAmPym on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:15PM (#34446988)

I did the whole thing from scratch. I was not trying to emulate anything in particular, I was working with what we had in the hardware to optimize. We basically pushed the chip to its limits without going heavily into assembly, although if I were to do it again (WHEN I do it again...) it'll be way better =)

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