Roger Linn

Roger Linn is a developer of electronic musical instruments, mainly for drum machine [ ˌ dɹʌmkəm pju tɚ ː ], but also for effects pedals. Its products have been used for many famous recordings. He is also an accomplished guitarist and music producer.

Roger Linn was known for the first programmable sample-based drum machine (1979 ), the Linn LM -1, produced by his own company, Linn Electronics, based in Tarzana, Los Angeles County, California. The samples come from drummer James Gadson. The LM-1 's successor, LinnDrum and Linn 9000, were typical of the 1980s music. Examples of the LM-1 can be found on Ballad of Dorothy Parker and When Doves Cry by Prince.

Linn Electronics closed in 1986 when Linn Production Center Akai MPC models was hired by Akai for the development of their Music Akai MPC 60 to 3,000. Most Linn Products used the then-new technology for MIDI sync and connect to electronic musical instruments such as keyboards and some former computer.

In 2008, Roger Linn developed a drum machine there still as LinnDrum II announced ( previously BOOMCHIK in 2007) along with Dave Smith. Dave Smith himself had his announcement 2008 as too hasty and comes to Winter NAMM 2011 with the finished product under the name TEMPEST.

Products

Examples:

• Linn LM-1
• LinnDrum
• AdrenaLinn - guitar effects pedal
• LinnDrum II

Musical career

Roger Linn also had success as a songwriter, with hits for Eric Clapton ( "Promises ", 1979) and Mary Chapin Carpenter ( " Quittin 'Time ", 1991), and toured as a guitarist with pianist and songwriter Leon Russell in the 1970s.