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Electronic Music Gets a New Weapon With the 'LinnStrument'

by Abby Seiff on March 13, 2011 at 03:05 PM

The fellow that brought us the drum machine -- that 1980s game-changer -- is still at it. Roger Linn's LinnStrument, which you can hear in the preview video after the break, is a marvel of a modern music-maker. Arrayed in grid form, the touchpad of notes adjusts pitch, timbre and expression according to finger movement and pressure. Geeky? No doubt. But it sounds roughly like a theremin on ecstasy, and is easily one of the more beautiful things we've heard in a while. For the good stuff, skip ahead to 1:30.

Tags: design, DrumMachine, electronics, LinnStrument, music, roger linn, RogerLinn, top

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