Thank you really much Roger. I am really proud and thankful for being included in the clip together with these great musicians. And thank you for giving us such great instrument. :)
I enjoyed the way Connor played. He was one of the few that utilized its polyphonic capabilities. The way he played during his segment reminded me of something I’ve tried doing on GarageBand, emulating what the Toto keyboard players did during the synthesizer feature in “Rosanna”.
OK, I'm officially saving up. Also, I know the flashing lights in Zakka's video are a refresh rate thing, but I kinda like that as a feature option. :)
Hi Aaron- if you like flashing lights, LinnStrument has a variety of animations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bpn6wZm67_w.html You can also program in custom text that scrolls across the playing surface, called “audience messages”.
Easily the best playing surface on the market. Great compilation, Roger. Great playing, fellow LinnStrumentalists. That reminds me, I've been meaning to finish editing some performance videos of my own... Best laid plans, as they say (sheepish grin). Cheers!
@@kinnectar820 They're not as easy to compare as you might think. About the only thing they do have in common is that they're both MPE controllers, otherwise playing them is a vastly different experience. The LinnStrument suites me better, because it's basically a "fretboard" of sorts, and I'm a career guitarist, so it was a relatively natural transition. The Continuum, on the other hand, while it is laid-out like "keyboard", it can't really be played like a traditional keyboard, so it really is its own instrument with a unique feel. To that end, if you're coming from a strings background, I highly recommend the LinnStrument; and if you have a piano background, well... At very least you'll know where all the notes are on the Continuum; but a new technique will need to be developed. Both are well-designed, well-built, and well-supported instruments, so you really can't go wrong there. A couple big differences: 1) the LinnStrument is generally more configurable as a playing surface and as a MIDI controller, and has better hardware connectivity. 2) The Continuum has a build-in sound engine, and therefore can be used as a standalone instrument; whereas the LinnStrument is just a controller, and therefore must be plugged into a synth or sound module if it's to make any noise. Anyway, I hope that helps. Cheers!
Let's Linndify the string instrument as a surface controller. A entirely different take on the design of a guitars fretboard area, sides and back of the neck, pickups and pickguard too. A open source based thinktank to collaborate concepts into viable products with futureproofing in mind.
I have one of your Linndrums and it was built to stand the test of time. Its built about as solid as anything in design for a drum machine, which made sense if placement of them within the proximity of the average drummer that doesnt use a guitar pick or fingerdrumming, instead of sticks haha. Tactile durable 3M self healing damage proof surfaces of different durometers gradients, that can have types of sensors embedded for easy access for string instrument players. This deserves further focus on for muscial applications. I liked hearing the guitar interpretations, how the MPE was working for them with the LinnStrument, and noticed that perhaps they required a fair bit of skill in order to pull their performances of guitar emulation, and it was close to what they wanted to achieve, yet not exactly as much as how a responsive stringed instrument can be ultilized. However, as you being Roger Linn already understand, there is definitely room for innovation with stringed instruments and other shapes of surface controllers as well, and it would be interesting if you were involved in such type of a stringed instrument development.
He’s a extraordinarily skilled and inventive player, who happens to value the fourths string layout on LinnStrument, which he also uses on his popular (and very cool) GeoShred app for iPad.
Want! I shall be practising shapes on a paper version in readiness! Um... so this can be tuned guitarwise E (closest) ADGBE (furthest) +2 spare rows? Heck... utterly wonderful! Love the demos.
LinnStrument can be used to emulate so many natural instruments (all of them, really), the mind boggles at what kind of abstractly-conceived physically-impossible instruments could be devised. I imagine coupling the playing surface with a hybrid (sampled+modelled) sound generation module like the Dexibell Vivo SX7 loaded with tones created from scratch on a computer would be amazing!
I'm still unsure of this. While some sounds so sound like they have expression there are still a lot that still sound like a regular pad controller with over the top pitch bend and false vibrator if you get what I mean. I'm not sure if it's the sounds picked or the playing or still the limitations of the small pad sizes causing quick lift off
I’d say some people have developed better performance expression skills than others, just as some violinists have better vibratos than others. Also, some of the video segments were included because they demonstrate skilled piano-style play that doesn’t include any continuous expression. Regarding the pad size, the pads are sized and spaced at the average spacing of human fingers, and the same as on a full-size computer keyboard. I think the videos demonstrate that people have no trouble with the pad size, and larger pads wouldn’t permit the same density of chord voicings or scale fingerings. I’d say that if you see any LinnStrument video that demonstrates what you think is high-quality expressive touch response, then that shows that LinnStrument is capable of it. And if, for example, you hear a performed vibrato that you don’t think sounds good, it’s likely that the performer’s skills are not focused on performing a skilled vibrato. Keep in mind that many synth players come from MIDI piano keyboards, which are essentially little more than on/off switches, so these things take time for people to learn.
Amazing. I have a full size Linnstrument on order and am excited to get my hands on it. Maybe someone can answer one question I have. Is it possible to play two synths as one MPE polysynth using the Note Per Channel setting? Can Note Per Channel be limited to just two channels?
Thanks for ordering a LinnStrument. The answer to your question is yes. In Per-Split Settings, set MIDI Mode to Channel Per Note. Then set your Per Note Channels to your two desired channels. This will give you a two-note polyphonic MPE performance setup, with one of your touches/channels going to one of your synths and the other touch/channel going to your other synth. This in further explained on the Panel Settings page, Per-Split Settings tab, in the MIDI Mode and MIDI Channels sections: www.rogerlinndesign.com/ls-per-split-settings.html And I’m here for you if you need help. - Roger
Hello Roger. Thank you for answering my question! I'm looking forward to experimenting with different combinations of monosynths and paraphonic synths. I had looked through all the documentation on your site and watched your excellent tutorials, but nowhere did I see it mentioned whether you could reduce the number of channels if desired. Only that you could change them. No doubt this will be obvious when I have my hands on the unit! I did manage to find a video of Gaz playing an Analog Four with the Linnstrument utilizing four channels in Channel Per Note so I had an inkling. Thank you for confirming my suspicions. Best wishes!
I love the concept of the video, but why in the hell did you choose some of the ones you chose to play for so long? Some of them were just god awful! And the ones that were the best, you played for like 5 seconds!
