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Roger Curtis Linn is an American designer of electronic musical instruments and equipment. He is the designer of the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and the MPC sampler, which had a major influence on the development of hip hop.
Roger Linn Design specializes in forward-thinking instruments that challenge traditional styles of musical expression. Meet LinnStrument. An multi-touch expressive MIDI controller for musical performance.
A Music Keyboard for the Modern Era. Meet LinnStrument, an expressive MIDI controller for musical performance. Unlike a standard piano MIDI keyboard's on/off switches, LinnStrument senses your fingers’ subtle movements in five ways, enabling musical performance expression rivaling that of fine acoustic instruments.
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.
Jul 2, 2013 · How important are a few milliseconds? When it comes to sequencers, they can mean the difference between a perfect groove and a sloppy mess. We talk to drum machine pioneer Roger Linn to discover the secrets of perfect musical timing and find out why the swing of his MPC sampler series remains so highly rated.
Mar 1, 2017 · In this episode of The Current's Prince Remembered podcast (download it from iTunes here), LM-1 inventor Roger Linn explains why he's a Prince fan, how Prince got that signature "knocking" noise, and why he stuck with the LM-1 for so long.
Aug 15, 2017 · The driving drum track — a heartbeat like no other — came courtesy of California guitarist Roger Linn’s pioneering Linn LM–1 Drum Computer, a 1980 invention that today, we’d simply call a drum machine.
