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by ozymandiax 443 days ago
My favourite computer... timing instruction placement on the drum. Juergen is actually planning to make a batch of kits later this year!
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My late father was a maintenance technician for those things. He hated it when programmers did smart instruction placement to optimize drum timing. When the drum speed was a little off, they called him to calibrate it so their programs would run fast again.