I've been hovering around this instrument and finally pulled the trigger and bought one today. I have no formal musical training and have had issues learning guitar due to arthritis in my hands. So I am looking forward to learning this instrument.
Hey Neil, I'm curious to hear how you're getting on with the Linnstrument. I also have hand issues and am curious how comfortable you've been with the ergonomics.
It’s great to see this evolve in the hands of musicians! As a bowed string player, and seeing several of the Linnstrument demos on yourube, I notice that vibrato tends to not be very well controlled-just wavering pitch without much center. Roger’s piece was nicer to my ears on this variable. I think one other performer in this collection also handled vibrato with more subtlety.
Thank you very much all your wonderful gear. You have produced some Beautiful equipment. I still have my Gigfx chopper, will never sell it. After I bought one I thought to myself, oh that's how Tool get some of their rhythms. I hope you are well. One more thing I love your honesty, it's refreshing. Hi from New Zealand.
I just got my Linnstrument two days ago and I am just astounded by how much it has changed my world already. I had a Roli but the Linnstrument has allowed me to escape the keyboard. Thank you SO SO SO SO much for all the amazing work you have done over your career. You are an utter legend Roger
When I saw this impressive video I started to spend more time on my Novation Launchpad than on piano. But that's not easy to play chords and melody on 8x8 pads... Hope to test a linnstrument one day 😁
I realize it’s difficult to try out a LinnStrument in the era of internet stores. However with nearly 4000 LinnStrument owners in the world, there’s a good chance that one of them lives near you and would be willing to show you his. Email me at support[at]rogerlinndesign.com and I’ll check your location for a local LinnStrument owner and if so, ask if he’d be willing to show you his. - Roger Linn
Need to get one ASAP. I mean I obviously have been following this instrument for 5+ years, but life is short and I gotta stay proactive... Thank you Mr. Linn for this wonderful invention. Much love from Russia. 💖💖💖
Thank you for your kind compliment, Andrey. It’s wonderful to see the ideas that LinnStrument embodies reaching far and wide to every corner of the globe.
@@rogerlinndesign thank you for the reaction sir! Hopefully we'll meet sometime soon (since I also happen to make some instrument projects... and more.) But yeah, not one but at least two Linnstruments...
I don't know enough about Indian music to know if this is Carnatic, but check out Salim Nair. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SkljC7ULZE8.html
Hi Roger ! Your instrument is really nice :) how does it compare to the osmose, the lumatone and the seabord grand ? I do microtonal music with VST instruments and scala scripts.
Thanks, CJ. I don’t use VSTs. I prefer the Mac so I use AU plug-ins. But the sound I used in the video is neither. It’s Apple’s “Sculpture” synthesizer, which is based on physical modeling technology and is included in both Logic and MainStage for Mac. That specific sound is part of my free sounds file for Logic or MainStage, which can be downloaded from the Recommended Sounds page on my site. The sound name is “Hammered String”. If you’re new to physical modeling synthesis, here’s an article I wrote about it, including the full video from which that excerpt was taken: synthandsoftware.com/2019/11/the-allure-of-physical-modeling/
I've just updated the notes section above with details on the sounds that I know. If you don't see the sound you're looking for, click the link for the original video and I'm sure the creator can help you.
And just when you thought the era of people showing off playing "Eruption" was over...? (anyone who's been in a guitar store during the 80's will understand!)
Really nicely designed instrument. I am wondering what layouts does it have in terms of "cell notes". I saw a guitar like "in fourths" and maybe a violin like "in fifths" but how do they translate to lets say uniform piano? Can the grid be made such as that the cells of every next (even) row is half-width in offset in relation to the odd row?
Thank you for your interest in LinnStrument. LinnStrument’s note pads are arranged in a grid, so it is not possible to implement a piano-type layout in which alternative rows are shifted horizontally 1/2 column. LinnStrument is a MIDI controller, so it sends standard MIDI messages, and MIDI defines pitches as consecutive integers 0 to 127. These are normally interpreted in the synth as 12 EDO semitones but you can configure many synths to interpret them however you wish. Further, LinnStrument’s rows alway consist of consecutive MIDI note numbers (normally semitones) and cannot, for example, be configured as consecutive scale notes, skipping accidentals. The interval between rows can be anything you wish and different for each row pair. There are 2 FAQs on the LinnStrument FAQ page, “General” tab, that give more information about this: www.rogerlinndesign.com/support/support-linnstrument-faqs
@@rogerlinndesign Thank you for the answers. I've got another question regarding vibrato. Can the movement on each cell be assigned to a pitch bend curve instead of to a vibrato? I am aware that the movement is quite short and probably won't be suitable for let's say 4 "semi-tones" in each direction left ight but I am trying to get a real pitch bend, not a slide and not a global pitch bend (wheel or bar\strip). LinnStrument is great indeed. I really would love to see whether the grid could be redesigned erouted to support a more suitable layout for the topology of the human hand (5 rows, diagonal access between cells), similar to Dreschke, Tonnetz, Janko. I hope grids of such devices can be redesigned\manufactured. The sensors of LinnSrtument are something unique from what I can see. I know that Seaboard is also a gri-like instrument beneath the surface, Continuum is too (though uses Hall sensors) and software.
@@PASHKULI Forgive me, but you have many prejudgements for someone who hasn’t played a LinnStrument. There isn’t enough space in a RU-vid post to answer them all, but all of your answers can be found on my site’s LinnStrument page or LinnStrument Support page, including my reasons for the note arrangement given at the end of this page: www.rogerlinndesign.com/support/support-linnstrument-fourths-layout
@@rogerlinndesign Yes, I would love to have first tried it. I've been thinking of getting one lately as it seems quite "guitar oriented" but not exactly. I am just deducting from only the videos I have seen. I had only tried Seaboard a few years ago and it did not seem suitable for me as it did not cover features of a normal piano-style keyboard, although it offered vibrato and slide-strips and Y movement.
@@rogerlinndesign I've been thinking of implementing a "palm muting" trigger or could it be possibly assigned to a expression pedal? Something that would muffle the notes played, rather dynamically. But it would be nice if it could be a real palm muting "feature" under the palm - if the sensors detect "big pressure area". That is why 'uniform layouts' (grid-based or other) have much potential. I hope you could get a grasp of this "palm muting" idea. I think LinnStrument could implement that even in its current state.
That’s true. Given that younger electronic musicians grew up playing music with on/off switches (MIDI keyboards, drum pads, and clip launchers), current popular music contains few examples of the type of subtle expressive touch control that is typical of acoustic instruments in earlier musical genres. The result is that electronic music has become background music, background for singers, picture or dance. I discuss that here: www.rogerlinndesign.com/support/test-page In other words, playing music with on/off switches has resulted in music that people find not interesting enough to be the focus of their attention. However, a few forward-thinking younger musicians are seeing the opportunity created by this loss and are using LinnStrument or other new expressive electronic instruments to create new music that uses expressive touch control in a new way that works in current musical styles.
@@rogerlinndesign i hope I didn’t come across as disrespectful. I have nothing but the utmost respect for your role in modern music. I’ll never forget the first time my friend let me use his Linndrum. Props to you for moving forward and coming up with new and interesting ways to create music. Who am I to even question that. Cheers and peace to you.
It’s true that Behringer provides moderate quality for low cost, but unfortunately also uses unethical business practices to do it, like registering older companies’ trademarks around the world without the permission of the original company, thereby hoping to claim that they are the original company. I don’t agree with this practice. It’s also true that while LinnStrument may look similar to low-cost on/off switch clip launcher products, it is a far more expensive engineering challenge to sense 3 dimensions plus velocity and release velocity, polyphonically, with high sensitivity and low latency, on a large playing surface. Perhaps that’s why after 8 years of LinnStrument, no one has been able to copy it or work around my patent. It’s also important to note that LinnStrument doesn’t make enough money for me to even hire one employee, so I’m not getting rich by it but rather trying to make a reasonable living while creating something that makes a contribution to musicians’ creative palette. Note that the new ROLI Seaboard Rise 2 costs more than my LinnStrument 128 with the same 4-octave pitch range, and the Haken Continuum costs $4900 for the 4-octave model and $6500 for the 5.5 octave model. So I (and 3700 LinnStrument owners) seem to feel that $1499 for the large 5-octave model and $1099 for the smaller 4-octave model is a good value. If you want expressive control in a professional quality instrument, those are your main choices.
