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I finally pulled the trigger on the LinnStrument. My Sticking has recently taken a big jump in my ability and I felt guilty whenever I'd return to keyboards. I've long been looking at the LinnStrument, and Jeremy Cubert has convinced me of both the utility and expressiveness in the LinnStrument. That and 2-year no-interest financing at Sweetwater! :mrgreen:

I've resolved to not touch a piano-style keyboard controller for at least until the end of this calendar year, a good five months. Any and all keyboards and MIDI data will be entered and manipulated with nothing but the LinnStrument, a mouse, and any one of my Sticks using Jam Origins MIDI Guitar (and Bass).

My 200-key LinnStrument arrives tomorrow! I will probably do an unboxening video and then rock it out some. Cheers!
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html

Demo at NAMM by Roger Linn.


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And now comes another distinct alternative in the form of the LinnStrument. Its designer, Roger Linn, is a serial innovator. He designed the first programmable, sample–based drum machine in 1979, which arguably changed forever several fundamental aspects of music production. Since then he’s worked with Akai on their MPC workstations, put out the ground–breaking range of AdrenaLinn guitar effects processors, and more recently collaborated with Dave Smith Instruments on the Tempest drum machine. The LinnStrument is his latest product, which once again looks set to challenge the status quo. It aims to deliver a degree of expressivity and real–time performance potential that isn’t normally associated with moving–key controllers and synths. Roger says he’s on a mission to “save the note”, in a world where computer–based producers increasingly deal in the currency of pre–packaged loops and patterns, at the expense of soulful, individual musical performances. Could this new controller really turn things around?


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Heh I am excited for you Steve! Awesome news, although I am going to do a bit of research before I pick up another midi controller - haha I have a few of 'em and I don't want to add to the collection unless it solves some musical things that the others don't...

I must say though, I quite enjoy my Seaboard Rise Block and Lightpad block and I really like the idea of controlling Logic ProX instruments via the Linnstrument's 3D parameters in a 'string' type of layout. I do a lot of midi stuff, and being able to enter things into a DAW or a notation software in realtime with a controller that has a logic that closely resembles my main instrument.

One thing that annoyed me a bit about the blocks, is having to have the blocks app running alongside my DAW. I am curious to know how the LInnstrument runs with Logic ProX, and if it can do it on it's own, or if it has it's own app and sound samples and whatnot. I'd also like to know if there is a dedicated rackmount midi sound module that might work with it so that if I want to play the thing live, I don't have to drag my MacBook and all that stuff... (Already have a lot of gear to drag around...)

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Congratulations! You will love it, and find your Stick skills will come in handy!


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I've bought one of the first Linnstruments right after they came out and play it all the time. Fantastic unique instrument that stands on it's own merits. Your Stick skills will be immediately obvious in the right hand. Left hand i a bit different, but it's the only other instrument I know of (besides the Stick) where one hand can easily reach across greater than two octaves. You get that same beautiful advantage of some really wide chord voicings.

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Is the bracket to attach it to my Grand Stick available yet?? :)

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Jayesskerr wrote:
Heh I am excited for you Steve! Awesome news, although I am going to do a bit of research before I pick up another midi controller - haha I have a few of 'em and I don't want to add to the collection unless it solves some musical things that the others don't...

I must say though, I quite enjoy my Seaboard Rise Block and Lightpad block and I really like the idea of controlling Logic ProX instruments via the Linnstrument's 3D parameters in a 'string' type of layout. I do a lot of midi stuff, and being able to enter things into a DAW or a notation software in realtime with a controller that has a logic that closely resembles my main instrument.

One thing that annoyed me a bit about the blocks, is having to have the blocks app running alongside my DAW. I am curious to know how the LInnstrument runs with Logic ProX, and if it can do it on it's own, or if it has it's own app and sound samples and whatnot. I'd also like to know if there is a dedicated rackmount midi sound module that might work with it so that if I want to play the thing live, I don't have to drag my MacBook and all that stuff... (Already have a lot of gear to drag around...)

Keep us posted!

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Congratulations! You will love it, and find your Stick skills will come in handy!

Karma wrote:
I've bought one of the first Linnstruments right after they came out and play it all the time. Fantastic unique instrument that stands on it's own merits. Your Stick skills will be immediately obvious in the right hand. Left hand i a bit different, but it's the only other instrument I know of (besides the Stick) where one hand can easily reach across greater than two octaves. You get that same beautiful advantage of some really wide chord voicings.

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Thanks, guys!

Ah, that should be one immediate advantage over regular keyboards. I'm a chordy guy and I like big, two-handed chord spreads. That should be easier on the Linnstrument.

There's some pretty cool videos on the Linnstrument site. I even saw a couple that said they were "adapted from the Chapman Stick." I'm watching people really get two hands on it but not have to travel very far. There'd be a lot more "hand movement" if it were a traditional keyboard. You also have a lot of repeated notes among the 200 pads on the Linnstrument. That should make for some more efficient ergonomics and give more options for hand positions than a traditional keyboard.

Yeah, there'll be a learning curve, but that's one thing that I'm counting on--that the learning the 4ths on the Linnstrument will both leverage my Stickness and improve my ability to express myself in a 4th-tuned string concept on both instruments.

Comes on the FedEx truck in a couple of hours.

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I've recently got one of these - great fun, and intuitive for stick players


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