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Originally Posted by fanriffic   WOW-many thanks for sharing Carl!!!
I've been saying I would start a prince production thread for a while but haven't yet got round to it as yet...
Any more info would be much appreciated-Sign o the times is a f@£$%ng classic album,and production wise constantly still amazes me.. 
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Happy to share!
There are alot of people who want to get those LM-1 sounds but owning a working LM-1 and dragging it around is not an option.If you want to give up a bit of authenticity for more affordability and portability and you want to sample one I suggest...Renting an LM-1 from sst studio rentals or bruce forat.
Plugging the LM-1(not the mix out) into an API pre if handy(api eq is nice if handy....560 graphic).If you have comps and eq's,Make a batch of samples without processing and one with.
Sample the separate soft and hard hits off the machine.The DAC in the lm-1 voice card has more beef in the sound on the louder hits.
Record a sample playing with as many tuning variations as possible to capture how it plays off that machine capturing the punchy 8 bit dac overload and aliasing.Avoid using your sampler for the tuning unless it's very minor.
You will need to experiment... add a few milliseconds of dead air at the front of the samples here and there...mostly the snare.10ms seems to be a good start.
I tried to make an LM-1 Refill for Reason but havent mastered the refill process but I can load the samples into the redrum player and get by in a pinch.