Roger_Linn wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 3:41 pm
My wife just asked me what I was reading. I told her I’m reading a conversation between WasteLand, John the Savage and Killmaster.
WasteLand, John the Savage and Killmaster walked into a bar...
John the Savage wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 8:01 am
^This.
What makes for a professional instrument goes way beyond theoretical potential. The LinnStrument meets the needs of touring musicians: i.e. it can handle the rigors of the road, interface directly with all manner of peripheral equipment (and be configured accordingly), and can be played with the level of proficiency that seasoned musicians expect and otherwise require of a real instrument.
Not to be confused with the fun factor of tinkering with consumer-grade products, like Roli Blocks. It’s simply a different league.
Cheers!
i shall not argue that they are in a different league. and this is the linnstrument forum, but this subthread i also follow, to know what is out there. and others, who have more MPE controllers, or from one brand...
the fun factor of tinkering. ok. than i have fun with the factor of tinkering..
never failed on me, yet.. the blocks.. and with the apps.. for the lightpad M blocks.. o well...
of course i knew of the bad units. why did i decided for roli? i could only answer that after that i owned 3 of them, seaboard + 2 lightpad M blocks.
they give me the control, the expression that i need.
they aren't for the road, indeed. and i am not a seasoned musician.
and i see the quality and the capabilities of the linnstrument. if budget allowed..., but i also need other stuf...
i patch from scratch (or make presets from scratch, i saw a purist discussion once..), i work from sounds. with sounds (of course)..
so, i also make my own MPE patches. is my music consumer-grade, a fun factor of tinkering. or are the patches, repeat the sentence.
i am not the judge (although my thesis was about; judgment..).
a pity that physical music stores, don't have a lot of MPE 'boards', or nothing, and that a physical store, o well, there aren't many, anymore.
i can understand why you call the linnstrument a professional instrument, it is. i did only see vid's, and they are impressive. i like it.
but my experience with the blokjes (dutch word...), let's say, i discovered undiscovered terrotiry of expression, with the right synths; like LION, Crusher-X, Kaivo, Aalto, Generate, Voltage Modular, Vast Dynamics Vaporizer 2, Pigments 3, Delta-V audio Spacecraft, Biotek 2, Vital Pro, Blade 2, Softube Modular, Cypher 2, Quanta, etc. o yes, MSoundFactory (what an implementation of MPE, by the way). and ableton live 11 suite also is a experimental playground, if you use it that way, and third party experimental M4L instruments, with MPE. and of course bitwig studio (have them both, amongst others..).
the way you play a linnstrument can not be compared, a bit perhaps with the lightpad M blocks, perhaps. i use them also for playing MPE, of course. and it depends on what i want, and the sound needs, which i choose seabord or blocks or both. but the seaboard is also quite expressive, it isn't that smaller than a seabord rise. strangely...
so for me, they extended the possibilities, richness in sounds/patches, one patch that can change radically of timbre, that one patch can fill a whole track...
and if i had a linnstrument, or could work with it for some weeks, i will think, roli? what's that, but in the mean time, the setup i have now, gives so much, and i have mastered it in my own way.
me thinks, that is the goal.
like the linnstrument. a layout that for me, a non-musician, also tempts me.
but in the end it is all, how do use the stuff you have.
TL;DR, i know. i am an entusiastic student of music, i learn everyday. i am limited, but still...