Roger Linn Design

News

6/3/21: I just released a new compilation of LinnStrument owner videos: "The LinnStrumentalists, volume 2".
6/1/21: There are now 3000 LinnStruments (total of both models) out in the world.
11/10/20: Ableton Live 11 adds MPE compatibility.
11/10/20: ROLI has released Equator 2. Equator is one of my (Roger's) favorite MPE-compatible synths and now includes an expanded sample library, granular synthesis, and lots of improvements all around.
11/10/20: The GeoShred 5 iPad app from MoForte now includes 6 of Audio Modeling's SWAM physically-modeled acoustic instruments as in-app purchases for only $15 each or $75 for all 6. That's an incredible value for the best violin, cello, tenor sax, flute, clarinet and oboe sounds on the market for expression play from LinnStrument.
One of my favorite synths is Surge. It's highly versatile and full-featured, MPE compatible and very expressive, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, is open source, and it's FREE. Learn more and download it here.
I (Roger) wrote three articles for synth guru Geary Yelton's new online magazine Synths & Software:
1) An article about Physical Modeling synthesis, including a video
2) A discussion of the Fourths String Note Layout used in LinnStrument, Roli Blocks, Ableton Push, GeoShred app and more.
3) A comparison of the design approaches of the current MPE instruments.

The tradition continues.