Roger Linn & Dave Smith – Tempest

2011-11-22
by Peter M. Mahr
Roger Linn & Dave Smith - Tempest

Roger Linn & Dave Smith - Tempest

What would be the music world without Roger Linn’s LM-1 and SCI’s Prophet 5? The latter was developed by Dave Smith and John Bowen. Since then many years passed by and the three gentlemen developed new and exciting instruments. Some of them disappeared like their developers but fortunately the latter celebrate a come back with new instruments. Roger Linn teamed up with Dave Smith to developed Tempest, an analog drum machine. Listen to Roger Linn explaining some of the features in the following Video.

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Es muss Mitte der 70er Jahre gewesen sein, als ich das erste Mal “Switched on Bach” von Walter/Wendy Carlos gehört habe. Seitdem haben Elektronische Musik und Synthesizer nichts an Faszination und Vielfalt in ihren Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten für mich verloren. Der Haptik wegen und wohl auch bedingt durch meine Wurzeln, gebe ich nach wie vor Hardware den Vorzug, selbst wenn die Qualität so mancher Plug-Ins mittlerweile beeindruckend ist. Die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre haben eine neue Generation an Klangschaffenden und Musikern hervorgebracht, die wie es scheint nun wiederum der Faszination der alten analogen Instrumente erliegen. Genau in diesem Spannungsfeld soll sich der Inhalt unseres Magazins wieder finden. ________________________________________________________ It must have been the middle of the 70′s when I first heard “Switched on Bach” by Walter/Wendy Carlos. Since then, electronic music and synthesizers have lost none of their fascination and variety in their means of expression for me. Because of the tangibility of it and probably also due to my roots, I still prefer hardware, even if the quality of some plug-ins is now impressive. The developments of recent years have spawned a new generation of sound professionals and musicians, who seem to again succumb to the fascination of old analog instruments. It is precisely in this area of tension that the content of our magazine can be found.