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The Linn 9000 is an electronic musical instrument manufactured by Linn Electronics as the successor to the LinnDrum. It was introduced in 1984 at a list price of $5,000, ($7,000 fully expanded) and about 1100 units were produced.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Roger Linn Design )〕 It combined MIDI sequencing and audio sampling (optional) with a set of 18 velocity and pressure sensitive performance pads, to produce an instrument optimized for use as a drum machine. It featured programmable hi-hat decay, 18 digital drum sounds, a mixer section, 18 individual 1/4" outputs, an LCD display, 6 external trigger inputs and an internal floppy disk drive (optional).〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Total Trash. The Linn 9000 Home Page )〕 The Linn 9000 had innovative and groundbreaking features〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Total Trash. The Linn 9000 Home Page )〕 and would influence many future drum machine designs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Total Trash. The Linn 9000 Home Page )〕 But chronic software bugs〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Polynominal )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Total Trash. The Linn 9000 Home Page )〕 led to a reputation for unreliability and contributed to the eventual demise of Linn Electronics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Polynominal )〕 The Linn 9000 would get a new lease on life when Forat Music and Electronics purchased Linn's remaining assets,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Forat Electronics - History )〕 fixed all of the bugs,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Vintage Synth Explorer )〕 added new features〔(【引用サイトリンク】Electronics ) have since re-invented the Linn 9000 themselves and released the Forat F9000">work=Vintage Synth Explorer )〕 and dubbed it the Forat F9000. ==History== The Linn 9000 would be Roger Linn's first attempt to create an integrated sampling/sequencing/MIDI work station. He would draw heavily on the Linn 9000 and the Sequential Circuits Inc. Studio 440 when he designed the Akai MPC60,〔〔 released in 1988. The Linn 9000 was plagued with problems from the beginning.〔〔 On early models, the power supply over-heated the CPU and had to be replaced under warranty. The original Linn 9000 operating system was mostly written in an esoteric high-level programming language called FORTH'' with some machine language. In early versions, some of the FORTH code produced unacceptable delays in user interface functions and was rewritten in machine language. But the operating system had numerous bugs and it was common for the machine to lock-up and lose data. Linn attempted to debug, rewrite and enhance the operating system. But the 64K code space memory segmentation in the Intel 8088 was perceived as an insurmountable limitation on memory that left no room for new features. Further software development was abandoned. The flawed Linn 9000 operating system was also used in the LinnSequencer, a rack mount 32 track hardware MIDI sequencer introduced by Linn Electronics in 1985. As a result, both machines earned a reputation for being notoriously unreliable. In addition, the same operating system was used in the LinnDrum Midistudio, a rack mount version of the Linn 9000 that was planned to be the successor to the 9000, but was never released. These issues contributed to the eventual demise of Linn Electronics in 1986.〔〔 Forat Music and Electronics purchased Linn's remaining assets,〔 completely reinvented the Linn 9000,〔 fixed all of the bugs〔 and dubbed it the Forat F9000; released in 1987. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linn 9000」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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