• 4/8/22: Mobile Musician did a very nice article abut me in their April 2022 issue. You can download it here.
• 11/15/20: I did a video interview for Italy's SoundMIT 2020 electronic music conference.
• 11/2/20: I did a video interview (part 1, part 2) for Church Studio Legends, a video series about the history of Leon Russell's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I discuss working with Leon Russell in around 1975 when I was around 20 years old, and how I learned many things from him.
• 10/6/20: I did a video interview about working at the age of 20 as a recording engineer and guitarist for the musician Leon Russell, and my occasional work at Leon's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 5/11/20: I was interviewed about "Designing Instruments" for Music Hackspace.
• 5/9/20: I was interviewed for the video BeatPPL podcast.
• 6/1/20: I was interviewed by the Audio Modeling company, makers of my favorite software wind and bowed-string instruments.
• 8/2019 - 11/2019: 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.
• 7/3/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by Music Radar, discussing MPE controllers, future synth stars, and the non-secret of the MPC’s swing.
• 3/8/2019: I (Roger) was a judge at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with judges Ge Wang and Pamela Z, we picked 3 winners from 14 finalists. Here's a video of the public performance of the 14 finalists, as well as the announcement of the winners and my summary description (at 2:07) of each of the 14 finalists' instruments.
• 2/20/19: I (Roger) did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session.
• 1/24/19: Article in Reverb.com: "Prince's Drum Machine: How His Use of the Linn LM-1 Heralded a New Age of Pop Rhythm Creation"
• 1/13/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by drummer Stewart Copeland for the BBC documentary "Stewart Copeland...on Drums".
• 7/7/18: Here's a very nice documentary about my LM-1 Drum Computer.
• 6/19/18: Video interview at Cutoff Music Store in Barcelona.
• 5/29/18: Video of presentation at Foothill College in the Los Altos Hills of Silicon Valley.
• 4/16/18: An article in Vox about my MPC drum machines and their effect on music.
• 2/26/18: For techy listeners, here's a podcast interview that I did with Embedded.fm, about making LinnStrument and embedded (hardware/software) products in general.
• 11/29/17: Electronic Musician magazine: "Remembering David Wessel: The Breakfast Club"
• 11/22/16: Here's a video of my (Roger's) keynote address at Audio Developers 2016 Conference in London, presented by ROLI. I talk about three trends in music and how developers can take advantage of them.
• 6/29/16: I was interviewed on the UK's Juno Plus about saving the note, OOC players vs. musicians, mandolin, modular synths & more.
• 5/30/16: I (Roger) was interviewed on Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle, a music industry podcast, talking about my early career as a musician and the influence of my products on music. My part starts at 9 minutes in.
• 4/1/16: Video of Roger's LinnStrument presentation at Superbooth 16 in Berlin.
• 3/15/16: Interview on KVR Audio with Roger about LinnStrument and developing music products.
• 1/13/16: Mark Vail conducts video interviews with Roger for megasynth.de.
• 8/15/17: "Roger Linn on Drum Samples, Prince, and Unlocking Virtuosity in Electronic Music" in Reverb.com.
• 10/22/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Roger Linn on MIDI Instrument Design"
• 10/21/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression"
• 5/12/15: Sweetwater's video interview of Roger during Gearfest 2015
• 5/12/15: Video of Roger, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim in "The Inventors of Synth" at Sweetwater's Gearfest 2015.
• 11/8/14: See video of Roger demoing LinnStrument at Music Expo SF 2014.
• 9/30/14: Roger interviewed in Forbes magazine about LinnStrument
• 8/13/14: See Sonic State's live video interview with Roger about LinnStrument.
• 8/7/14: Read Harper's article "Virtualsity, Inventing the instruments of the future" about Roger, LinnStrument and the new expressive electronic instruments.
• 3/20/14: Roger interviewed by coolhunting.com.
• July 2, 2013: Interview with AttackMagazine.com: "ROGER LINN ON SWING, GROOVE & THE MAGIC OF THE MPC’S TIMING".
• March 10, 2013: Roger and Dave Smith interviewed by Ean Golden of DJ TechTools.
• March 8, 2013: At SAE (Study Audio Engineering) San Francisco, Roger speaks about Tempest and LinnStrument, and Carson Day or Dave Smith Instruments demos Prophet 12. (Video)
• 10/23/2012: Roger interviewed in hammarica.com
• 9/27/2012: Roger appears in four events during the Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington, including a live interview with Resident Advisor. Here's a video of Roger's talk with Carl Craig on the evolution of drum machines.
• 5/5/2011, "New Musical Instruments" events at Stanford's CCRMA (pics, video), UC Berkeley's CNMAT (pics, video), SF Music Hackday (video 1, video 2) and SF MusicTech (pics, video).
• 3/7/2011, Interview with Roger and Dave Smith at Red Bull Music Academy event in San Francisco (pics) (video segment of Roger demonstrating LinnStrument)
• 2/12/2011, Roger receives Technical Grammy Award with acceptance speech video and photos
• 2/1/2011, Video segment by local San Francisco NBC TV station about Roger and Grammy award
• 1/20/2011, fan site for band Human League, interview with Roger
• 7/2/2010, KVR Audio, interview with Roger in "Developer Focus" section
• 5/17/2010, SF Music Tech, panel discussion on "The Future of Musical Instruments" with Roger, David Wessel, Max Mathews, John Chowning and Ge Wang (video summary, full video part 1, full video part 2)
• May 2008, BBC Radio 2, "Third Reich & Roll" narrated by Stephen Fry, (Roger's segment starts at 8:29 into the recording)
• June 2, 2007, BBC Radio 4, "From Berkeley to the Bronx"
• January 2007, Remix, "Mr. MPC: Roger Linn"
• October 2006, Dazed & Confused magazine (UK), "Doctor Beat"
• June 1, 2006: Video interview by George Peterson with the Dead Presidents Society: Roger & Ingrid Linn, Max Mathews, Tom Oberheim, David Wessell, Dave Smith, Keith McMillen, Jaron & Lena Lanier and almost Don Buchla.
• September 2005, San Francisco Bays' East Bay Express, "The Italian Job"
• 2005, Event at AudioMidi in Los Angeles with Roger, Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle. (Video)
• January 20, 2005, NAMM.org, Video: Roger talks about Dave Smith as part of NAMM's Oral History Program
• 2003, Sonic State, "The Daddy of the MPC and the modern drum machine"
• October 2002, NPR's radio show Morning Edition, "TechnoPop - The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music; Part 6 - The Triumph of the Amateurs" (Roger's interview starts at 6:15 into the segment.)
• June 2002, Sound On Sound, "Designer Drums - The Return Of Roger Linn"
• May 15, 1976, Roger (with yellow shirt and cowboy hat) playing guitar on Saturday Night Live with Leon Russell.
• 4/8/22: Mobile Musician did a very nice article abut me in their April 2022 issue. You can download it here.
• 11/15/20: I did a video interview for Italy's SoundMIT 2020 electronic music conference.
• 11/2/20: I did a video interview (part 1, part 2) for Church Studio Legends, a video series about the history of Leon Russell's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I discuss working with Leon Russell in around 1975 when I was around 20 years old, and how I learned many things from him.
• 10/6/20: I did a video interview about working at the age of 20 as a recording engineer and guitarist for the musician Leon Russell, and my occasional work at Leon's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 5/11/20: I was interviewed about "Designing Instruments" for Music Hackspace.
• 5/9/20: I was interviewed for the video BeatPPL podcast.
• 6/1/20: I was interviewed by the Audio Modeling company, makers of my favorite software wind and bowed-string instruments.
• 8/2019 - 11/2019: 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.
• 7/3/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by Music Radar, discussing MPE controllers, future synth stars, and the non-secret of the MPC’s swing.
• 3/8/2019: I (Roger) was a judge at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with judges Ge Wang and Pamela Z, we picked 3 winners from 14 finalists. Here's a video of the public performance of the 14 finalists, as well as the announcement of the winners and my summary description (at 2:07) of each of the 14 finalists' instruments.
• 2/20/19: I (Roger) did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session.
• 1/24/19: Article in Reverb.com: "Prince's Drum Machine: How His Use of the Linn LM-1 Heralded a New Age of Pop Rhythm Creation"
• 1/13/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by drummer Stewart Copeland for the BBC documentary "Stewart Copeland...on Drums".
• 6/19/18: Video interview at Cutoff Music Store in Barcelona.
• 5/29/18: Video of presentation at Foothill College in the Los Altos Hills of Silicon Valley.
• 4/16/18: An article in Vox about my MPC drum machines and their effect on music.
• 2/26/18: For techy listeners, here's a podcast interview that I did with Embedded.fm, about making LinnStrument and embedded (hardware/software) products in general.
• 11/29/17: Electronic Musician magazine: "Remembering David Wessel: The Breakfast Club"
• 11/22/16: Here's a video of my (Roger's) keynote address at Audio Developers 2016 Conference in London, presented by ROLI. I talk about three trends in music and how developers can take advantage of them.
• 6/29/16: I was interviewed on the UK's Juno Plus about saving the note, OOC players vs. musicians, mandolin, modular synths & more.
• 5/30/16: I (Roger) was interviewed on Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle, a music industry podcast, talking about my early career as a musician and the influence of my products on music. My part starts at 9 minutes in.
• 4/1/16: Video of Roger's LinnStrument presentation at Superbooth 16 in Berlin.
• 3/15/16: Interview on KVR Audio with Roger about LinnStrument and developing music products.
• 1/13/16: Mark Vail conducts video interviews with Roger for megasynth.de.
• 8/15/17: "Roger Linn on Drum Samples, Prince, and Unlocking Virtuosity in Electronic Music" in Reverb.com.
• 10/22/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Roger Linn on MIDI Instrument Design"
• 10/21/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression"
• 5/12/15: Sweetwater's video interview of Roger during Gearfest 2015
• 5/12/15: Video of Roger, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim in "The Inventors of Synth" at Sweetwater's Gearfest 2015.
• 11/8/14: See video of Roger demoing LinnStrument at Music Expo SF 2014.
• 9/30/14: Roger interviewed in Forbes magazine about LinnStrument
• 8/13/14: See Sonic State's live video interview with Roger about LinnStrument.
• 8/7/14: Read Harper's article "Virtualsity, Inventing the instruments of the future" about Roger, LinnStrument and the new expressive electronic instruments.
• 3/20/14: Roger interviewed by coolhunting.com.
• July 2, 2013: Interview with AttackMagazine.com: "ROGER LINN ON SWING, GROOVE & THE MAGIC OF THE MPC’S TIMING".
• March 10, 2013: Roger and Dave Smith interviewed by Ean Golden of DJ TechTools.
• March 8, 2013: At SAE (Study Audio Engineering) San Francisco, Roger speaks about Tempest and LinnStrument, and Carson Day or Dave Smith Instruments demos Prophet 12. (Video)
• 10/23/2012: Roger interviewed in hammarica.com
• 9/27/2012: Roger appears in four events during the Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington, including a live interview with Resident Advisor. Here's a video of Roger's talk with Carl Craig on the evolution of drum machines.
• 5/5/2011, "New Musical Instruments" events at Stanford's CCRMA (pics, video), UC Berkeley's CNMAT (pics, video), SF Music Hackday (video 1, video 2) and SF MusicTech (pics, video).
• 3/7/2011, Interview with Roger and Dave Smith at Red Bull Music Academy event in San Francisco (pics) (video segment of Roger demonstrating LinnStrument)
• 2/12/2011, Roger receives Technical Grammy Award with acceptance speech video and photos
• 2/1/2011, Video segment by local San Francisco NBC TV station about Roger and Grammy award
• 1/20/2011, fan site for band Human League, interview with Roger
• 7/2/2010, KVR Audio, interview with Roger in "Developer Focus" section
• 5/17/2010, SF Music Tech, panel discussion on "The Future of Musical Instruments" with Roger, David Wessel, Max Mathews, John Chowning and Ge Wang (video summary, full video part 1, full video part 2)
• May 2008, BBC Radio 2, "Third Reich & Roll" narrated by Stephen Fry, (Roger's segment starts at 8:29 into the recording)
• June 2, 2007, BBC Radio 4, "From Berkeley to the Bronx"
• January 2007, Remix, "Mr. MPC: Roger Linn"
• October 2006, Dazed & Confused magazine (UK), "Doctor Beat"
• June 1, 2006: Video interview by George Peterson with the Dead Presidents Society: Roger & Ingrid Linn, Max Mathews, Tom Oberheim, David Wessell, Dave Smith, Keith McMillen, Jaron & Lena Lanier and almost Don Buchla.
• September 2005, San Francisco Bays' East Bay Express, "The Italian Job"
• 2005, Event at AudioMidi in Los Angeles with Roger, Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle. (Video)
• January 20, 2005, NAMM.org, Video: Roger talks about Dave Smith as part of NAMM's Oral History Program
• 2003, Sonic State, "The Daddy of the MPC and the modern drum machine"
• October 2002, NPR's radio show Morning Edition, "TechnoPop - The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music; Part 6 - The Triumph of the Amateurs" (Roger's interview starts at 6:15 into the segment.)
• June 2002, Sound On Sound, "Designer Drums - The Return Of Roger Linn"
• May 15, 1976, Roger (with yellow shirt and cowboy hat) playing guitar on Saturday Night Live with Leon Russell.
• 4/8/22: Mobile Musician did a very nice article abut me in their April 2022 issue. You can download it here.
• 11/15/20: I did a video interview for Italy's SoundMIT 2020 electronic music conference.
• 11/2/20: I did a video interview (part 1, part 2) for Church Studio Legends, a video series about the history of Leon Russell's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I discuss working with Leon Russell in around 1975 when I was around 20 years old, and how I learned many things from him.
• 10/6/20: I did a video interview about working at the age of 20 as a recording engineer and guitarist for the musician Leon Russell, and my occasional work at Leon's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 5/11/20: I was interviewed about "Designing Instruments" for Music Hackspace.
• 5/9/20: I was interviewed for the video BeatPPL podcast.
• 6/1/20: I was interviewed by the Audio Modeling company, makers of my favorite software wind and bowed-string instruments.
• 8/2019 - 11/2019: 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.
• 7/3/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by Music Radar, discussing MPE controllers, future synth stars, and the non-secret of the MPC’s swing.
• 3/8/2019: I (Roger) was a judge at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with judges Ge Wang and Pamela Z, we picked 3 winners from 14 finalists. Here's a video of the public performance of the 14 finalists, as well as the announcement of the winners and my summary description (at 2:07) of each of the 14 finalists' instruments.
• 2/20/19: I (Roger) did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session.
• 1/24/19: Article in Reverb.com: "Prince's Drum Machine: How His Use of the Linn LM-1 Heralded a New Age of Pop Rhythm Creation"
• 1/13/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by drummer Stewart Copeland for the BBC documentary "Stewart Copeland...on Drums".
• 6/19/18: Video interview at Cutoff Music Store in Barcelona.
• 5/29/18: Video of presentation at Foothill College in the Los Altos Hills of Silicon Valley.
• 4/16/18: An article in Vox about my MPC drum machines and their effect on music.
• 2/26/18: For techy listeners, here's a podcast interview that I did with Embedded.fm, about making LinnStrument and embedded (hardware/software) products in general.
• 11/29/17: Electronic Musician magazine: "Remembering David Wessel: The Breakfast Club"
• 11/22/16: Here's a video of my (Roger's) keynote address at Audio Developers 2016 Conference in London, presented by ROLI. I talk about three trends in music and how developers can take advantage of them.
• 6/29/16: I was interviewed on the UK's Juno Plus about saving the note, OOC players vs. musicians, mandolin, modular synths & more.
• 5/30/16: I (Roger) was interviewed on Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle, a music industry podcast, talking about my early career as a musician and the influence of my products on music. My part starts at 9 minutes in.
• 4/1/16: Video of Roger's LinnStrument presentation at Superbooth 16 in Berlin.
• 3/15/16: Interview on KVR Audio with Roger about LinnStrument and developing music products.
• 1/13/16: Mark Vail conducts video interviews with Roger for megasynth.de.
• 8/15/17: "Roger Linn on Drum Samples, Prince, and Unlocking Virtuosity in Electronic Music" in Reverb.com.
• 10/22/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Roger Linn on MIDI Instrument Design"
• 10/21/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression"
• 5/12/15: Sweetwater's video interview of Roger during Gearfest 2015
• 5/12/15: Video of Roger, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim in "The Inventors of Synth" at Sweetwater's Gearfest 2015.
• 11/8/14: See video of Roger demoing LinnStrument at Music Expo SF 2014.
• 9/30/14: Roger interviewed in Forbes magazine about LinnStrument
• 8/13/14: See Sonic State's live video interview with Roger about LinnStrument.
• 8/7/14: Read Harper's article "Virtualsity, Inventing the instruments of the future" about Roger, LinnStrument and the new expressive electronic instruments.
• 3/20/14: Roger interviewed by coolhunting.com.
• July 2, 2013: Interview with AttackMagazine.com: "ROGER LINN ON SWING, GROOVE & THE MAGIC OF THE MPC’S TIMING".
• March 10, 2013: Roger and Dave Smith interviewed by Ean Golden of DJ TechTools.
• March 8, 2013: At SAE (Study Audio Engineering) San Francisco, Roger speaks about Tempest and LinnStrument, and Carson Day or Dave Smith Instruments demos Prophet 12. (Video)
• 10/23/2012: Roger interviewed in hammarica.com
• 9/27/2012: Roger appears in four events during the Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington, including a live interview with Resident Advisor. Here's a video of Roger's talk with Carl Craig on the evolution of drum machines.
• 5/5/2011, "New Musical Instruments" events at Stanford's CCRMA (pics, video), UC Berkeley's CNMAT (pics, video), SF Music Hackday (video 1, video 2) and SF MusicTech (pics, video).
• 3/7/2011, Interview with Roger and Dave Smith at Red Bull Music Academy event in San Francisco (pics) (video segment of Roger demonstrating LinnStrument)
• 2/12/2011, Roger receives Technical Grammy Award with acceptance speech video and photos
• 2/1/2011, Video segment by local San Francisco NBC TV station about Roger and Grammy award
• 1/20/2011, fan site for band Human League, interview with Roger
• 7/2/2010, KVR Audio, interview with Roger in "Developer Focus" section
• 5/17/2010, SF Music Tech, panel discussion on "The Future of Musical Instruments" with Roger, David Wessel, Max Mathews, John Chowning and Ge Wang (video summary, full video part 1, full video part 2)
• May 2008, BBC Radio 2, "Third Reich & Roll" narrated by Stephen Fry, (Roger's segment starts at 8:29 into the recording)
• June 2, 2007, BBC Radio 4, "From Berkeley to the Bronx"
• January 2007, Remix, "Mr. MPC: Roger Linn"
• October 2006, Dazed & Confused magazine (UK), "Doctor Beat"
• June 1, 2006: Video interview by George Peterson with the Dead Presidents Society: Roger & Ingrid Linn, Max Mathews, Tom Oberheim, David Wessell, Dave Smith, Keith McMillen, Jaron & Lena Lanier and almost Don Buchla.
• September 2005, San Francisco Bays' East Bay Express, "The Italian Job"
• 2005, Event at AudioMidi in Los Angeles with Roger, Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle. (Video)
• January 20, 2005, NAMM.org, Video: Roger talks about Dave Smith as part of NAMM's Oral History Program
• 2003, Sonic State, "The Daddy of the MPC and the modern drum machine"
• October 2002, NPR's radio show Morning Edition, "TechnoPop - The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music; Part 6 - The Triumph of the Amateurs" (Roger's interview starts at 6:15 into the segment.)
• June 2002, Sound On Sound, "Designer Drums - The Return Of Roger Linn"
• May 15, 1976, Roger (with yellow shirt and cowboy hat) playing guitar on Saturday Night Live with Leon Russell.
