Roger Linn Design

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6/5/20: Want to learn how to create your own electronic musical instrument? Let me teach you. In July, I'm co-teaching an online workshop for Stanford's CCRMA computer music school.
6/1/20: I was interviewed by the Audio Modeling company, makers of my favorite software wind and bowed-string instruments
5/11/20: I was interviewed about "Designing Instruments" for Music Hackspace.
5/9/20: I was interviewed for the video BeatPPL podcast.
New LinnStrumentalist Fontaine Burnett has released two wonderful video demonstrating skilled two-handed piano-style jazz play: "Distances" and "For McCoy".
Over 2200 LinnStruments have been sold, including both LinnStrument and LinnStrument 128.
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.
I (Roger) recently co-taught a workshop (with Sasha Leitman) at Stanford's CCRMA called "Designing Physical Interactions for Music". A very bright and creative group, and a wonderful experience.
I (Roger) was interviewed by Music Radar, discussing MPE controllers, future synth stars, and the non-secret of the MPC’s swing.

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