Here are the best of Roger Linn's products from his former company, Linn Electronics, and afterwards. Click on an image to see a larger image of the product.

Linn Electronics LM-1 was the world's first programmable sampled-sound drum machine. Announced in 1979, this first product of Linn Electronics started a revolution in 1980s popular music. Originally sold for $5,000 each, only about 500 were ever made, but those 500 owners were a "who's who" of the music industry. The 18 fixed drum sounds were mostly recorded by local L.A. session drummer Art Wood, and sampled at only 28 kHz using an 8 bit non-linear format. Cymbals weren't included due to the high cost of long sounds. The operating system allowed both real-time loop recording of rhythm patterns as well as step entry, and introduced innovations such as quantize, swing and creating songs by chaining patterns together.

Released in 1982 as the successor to the LM-1, the Linn Electronics LinnDrum originally sold for $3,000 and about 5000 units were produced. Providing the rhythm tracks of many 1980s hit records, the LinnDrum expanded upon the LM-1 by adding crash and ride cymbals, greater sample lengths, changeable sounds (by opening the lid and changing sound chips in sockets!) and five live drum trigger inputs.

Released in 1984, the innovative Linn Electronics Linn 9000 combined a sampling drum machine with a multi-track MIDI sequencer. Improving upon the LinnDrum, it also included user sampling, touch-sensitive drum pads, a programmable hihat decay slider, an alphanumeric LCD display, a programmable mixer and SMPTE sync. Originally sold for $5,000 ($7,000 fully expanded), about 1100 units were produced. The last units were sold in February of 1986, when Linn Electronics closed its doors due to strong competition and the growing pains of a small business.

After the close of Linn Electronics, Roger Linn formed an alliance with Akai Corporation of Japan to design products similar to those of Linn Electronics. The first result of that collaboration was the Akai MPC60 MIDI Production Center, a full-featured sampling drum machine and MIDI sequencer released in 1988. Similar in concept to the Linn 9000, it featured a large 8 line LCD display, up to 26 seconds of 12 bit non-linear sampling at 40 kHz sampling rate, 16 simultaneous voices, 2 MIDI inputs and 4 MIDI outputs. In 1991, the MPC60 was succeeded by the MPC60-II, internally the same machine but with a headphone jack and a less expensive case design. Known for its warm sound and exceptional rhythmic feel, the MPC60 and MPC60-II live on today with the addition of the version 3.10 software upgrade and the Marion Systems SCSI hard disk interface, both sold by none other than Roger Linn Design.

Released in 1988, the Akai ASQ10 Digital Sequencer was essentially the sequencer section of the MPC60, without the sound generator or drum pads.

Released in 1994, the Akai MPC3000 MIDI Production Center improved uponthe MPC60 byadding stereo sampling, 16 bit linear 44.1 kHz sampling up to nearly 6 minutes, effects, dynamic digital filters, 32 voices, multiple drum sets inmemory, a SCSI port, andmore. The MPC3000 is the last product of the Akai/Roger Linn collaboration. In 1997, Akai released the less expensive MPC2000. Although the MPC2000 draws substantially from Roger Linn's MPC60and MPC3000 design ideas, Roger Linn was not involved in the design of the MPC2000.

Released in December of 2001, the AdrenaLinn Guitar Effects Processor introduced the concept of rhythmic modulation, filter and sequencing effects that play in perfect synch to an internal drum machine or to MIDI clock, all in a low-cost stomp box. AdrenaLinn combined a variety of modulation effects that played in synch to the internal drum machine. Winning numerous awards worldwide, AdrenaLinn also included beat-synched delay and guitar amp modeling.

Released in August of 2003, AdrenaLinn II improved upon the original AdrenaLinn model with more and improved guitar amp models, more delay time, more effects, and a simpler user interface.