About Roger Linn Design

Roger Linn Design is a small company in Berkeley, California that is engaged in the design of products for the electronic musical instrument industry. We currently manufacture and distribute our own product, the AdrenaLinn III Guitar Effects Processor, and also design for other companies in the musical products industry. Roger Linn Design is comprised of Roger and Ingrid Linn, with help from a handful of consulting engineers in the San Francisco bay area.

 

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About Roger Linn

Roger Linn is a designer of electronic music products, best known for his invention of the LM-1 Drum Computer, the first programmable, sampled-sound drum machine in 1979. Manufactured by his company Linn Electronics, the LM-1 and its successors the LinnDrum and Linn9000 provided the drums for countless hit records during the 1980s by artists including Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Devo and Bruce Hornsby, and are considered a major influence on the music of the era.

In 1988, he designed the innovative MPC60 MIDI Production Center for the Japanese Akai Company, with the brand Roger Linn Design appearing on the product’s front panel. Combining a sampling drum machine with a real-time MIDI sequencer, this product gradually became the industry standard in the production of hip-hop, rap, dance and related music styles throughout the 1990s, and has been credited as a significant influence in the birth of hip hop music itself. This was followed in 1994 with the enhanced MPC3000 and others, and the MPC product line is still successful nearly 20 years later. In addition to these designs for Akai, he also designed products for a variety of companies during the 1990s, including the Japanese Roland company.

In 2002, he returned to manufacturing his own products—as well as his love of the guitar—with the release of a groundbreaking guitar effects product called AdrenaLinn. Used on hit recordings by John Mayer, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more, and winning numerous international music product awards, AdrenaLinn transformed a guitarist’s tone by using variety of innovative rhythmic filtering methods, all in sync to an internal drumbeat. This was followed in 2003 by the enhanced AdrenaLinn II. In 2005, he designed a similar product for the M-Audio company called Black Box, combining many of AdrenaLinn's guitar effects with a computer recording interface, and with the Roger Linn Design brand appearing on the front panel. In 2007, he released the third generation AdrenaLinn III.

Apart from his music product career, Roger is a guitarist and songwriter, having co-written hits for Eric Clapton ("Promises", 1979) and Mary Chapin Carpenter ("Quittin' Time", 1991), and having toured as a guitarist with the pianist and songwriter Leon Russell in 1976 at age 21. He currently resides in the hills of Berkeley, California and occasionally performs around the San Francisco bay area on guitar and mandolin. You can see him playing traditional Italian songs on mandolin at Berkeley's Caffe Trieste on the 1st and 3rd Monday evenings of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. He also hosts the Rog Mahal Concert Series at his home, providing an intimate venue for creative musicians of various styles of music. If you're interested in hearing the music of his father, the late composer and professor of music Robert Linn, please visit www.robertlinn.org.

 

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About Ingrid Linn

Ingrid Linn holds a masters in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technical University in Munich, Germany, as well as a degree in business administration. Her primary responsibilities are development of high level DSP algorithms for our products, as well as general management of the company.

 

 

 

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