Experiences with Linnstrument

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Just wanted to post my experiences with Linnstrument...

1. It is a "new" instrument and takes some time to adjust the global settings to playing styles
2. Depending upon the patch and sound characteristics, a swipe or sweeping kind of motion to create pitch bends provides great results; i.e. brass sounds where the pitch bend begins with darker tone color and then swells quickly to a brighter sound - have had great results with patches/plugins that use the Z axis mapped to a controller to adjust the timbre. On the opposite side, when doing guitar bends, sometimes the initial unbended sound needs more emphasis than the resolution. Reverse the playing technique.
3. Sometimes it is best to turn off some of the dimensions of the Linnstrument; i.e. Trillian with the acoustic bass sound set to "All" - has pitch variances built into the patch and etc.
4. The Linnstrument is great to pick up and play when you need an idea to "fill a hole", "extend an idea" and etc. Since it is so responsive, you naturally touch the instrument based upon what you "feel the music needs" and if the controllers are mapped to the patch/plugin settings, it can be very creative.
5. Wonderful new ideas can be found by using the "channel per row" setting with some default Omnisphere patches that contain pitch bends in the patches/samples when setting up a "multi".
6. The WaveMapper and WaveGenerator plugins by Wolfgang Palm respond well to "voice per channel".
7. Lots of patches and sounds made for wind controllers are very responsive when setting the Z axis to controller #2 (the Y and Z axis can be set to any controller)
8. It is easy to "bring patches to life" by mapping the "Y" axis controller to the filter cutoff of the patch. Mapping "Y" to the filter cutoff will result in constantly slight variances in timbre. Works very well when the values of the controller data can be adjusted to the amount of filter effect in the patch. Have had great success using NI's Massive in this area.
9. Mapping Linnstrument controller data to Bigwig native instrument parameters is quite easy and provides a plethora of possibilities.
10. Apple Logic is an appropriate DAW to use when multiple MIDI channels per patch/per track is needed. (Requires a plugin on the track that can respond to multiple MIDI channels)

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