• 7/26/24: I did a "3 questions" text interview with Synth History about designing music products and more.
• 7/10/24: I did a live video interview with the UK's Sonic State.
• 5/2/24: I was interviewed by Drake Music in London, which specializes for musicians with disabilities.
• 4/25/24: I was interviewed in Paris by my friend, the French jazz pianist and author Laurent de Wilde.
• 4/8/22: Mobile Musician did a very nice article abut me in their April 2022 issue. You can download it here.
• 11/15/20: I did a video interview for Italy's SoundMIT 2020 electronic music conference.
• 11/2/20: I did a video interview (part 1, part 2) for Church Studio Legends, a video series about the history of Leon Russell's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I discuss working with Leon Russell in around 1975 when I was around 20 years old, and how I learned many things from him.
• 10/6/20: I did a video interview about working at the age of 20 as a recording engineer and guitarist for the musician Leon Russell, and my occasional work at Leon's Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 5/11/20: I was interviewed about "Designing Instruments" for Music Hackspace.
• 5/9/20: I was interviewed for the video BeatPPL podcast.
• 6/1/20: I was interviewed by the Audio Modeling company, makers of my favorite software wind and bowed-string instruments.
• 8/2019 - 11/2019: I (Roger) wrote three articles for synth guru Geary Yelton's new online magazine Synths & Software:
1) An article about Physical Modeling synthesis, including a video
2) A discussion of the Fourths String Note Layout used in LinnStrument, Roli Blocks, Ableton Push, GeoShred app and more.
3) A comparison of the design approaches of the current MPE instruments.
• 7/3/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by Music Radar, discussing MPE controllers, future synth stars, and the non-secret of the MPC’s swing.
• 3/8/2019: I (Roger) was a judge at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with judges Ge Wang and Pamela Z, we picked 3 winners from 14 finalists. Here's a video of the public performance of the 14 finalists, as well as the announcement of the winners and my summary description (at 2:07) of each of the 14 finalists' instruments.
• 2/20/19: I (Roger) did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session.
• 1/24/19: Article in Reverb.com: "Prince's Drum Machine: How His Use of the Linn LM-1 Heralded a New Age of Pop Rhythm Creation"
• 1/13/19: I (Roger) was interviewed by drummer Stewart Copeland for the BBC documentary "Stewart Copeland...on Drums".
• 7/7/18: Here's a very nice documentary about my LM-1 Drum Computer.
• 6/19/18: Video interview at Cutoff Music Store in Barcelona.
• 5/29/18: Video of presentation at Foothill College in the Los Altos Hills of Silicon Valley.
• 4/16/18: An article in Vox about my MPC drum machines and their effect on music.
• 2/26/18: For techy listeners, here's a podcast interview that I did with Embedded.fm, about making LinnStrument and embedded (hardware/software) products in general.
• 11/29/17: Electronic Musician magazine: "Remembering David Wessel: The Breakfast Club"
• 11/22/16: Here's a video of my (Roger's) keynote address at Audio Developers 2016 Conference in London, presented by ROLI. I talk about three trends in music and how developers can take advantage of them.
• 6/29/16: I was interviewed on the UK's Juno Plus about saving the note, OOC players vs. musicians, mandolin, modular synths & more.
• 5/30/16: I (Roger) was interviewed on Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle, a music industry podcast, talking about my early career as a musician and the influence of my products on music. My part starts at 9 minutes in.
• 4/1/16: Video of Roger's LinnStrument presentation at Superbooth 16 in Berlin.
• 3/15/16: Interview on KVR Audio with Roger about LinnStrument and developing music products.
• 1/13/16: Mark Vail conducts video interviews with Roger for megasynth.de.
• 8/15/17: "Roger Linn on Drum Samples, Prince, and Unlocking Virtuosity in Electronic Music" in Reverb.com.
• 10/22/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Roger Linn on MIDI Instrument Design"
• 10/21/15: Electronic Musician magazine: "Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression"
• 5/12/15: Sweetwater's video interview of Roger during Gearfest 2015
• 5/12/15: Video of Roger, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim in "The Inventors of Synth" at Sweetwater's Gearfest 2015.
• 11/8/14: See video of Roger demoing LinnStrument at Music Expo SF 2014.
• 9/30/14: Roger interviewed in Forbes magazine about LinnStrument
• 8/13/14: See Sonic State's live video interview with Roger about LinnStrument.
• 8/7/14: Read Harper's article "Virtualsity, Inventing the instruments of the future" about Roger, LinnStrument and the new expressive electronic instruments.
• 3/20/14: Roger interviewed by coolhunting.com.
• July 2, 2013: Interview with AttackMagazine.com: "ROGER LINN ON SWING, GROOVE & THE MAGIC OF THE MPC’S TIMING".
• March 10, 2013: Roger and Dave Smith interviewed by Ean Golden of DJ TechTools.
• March 8, 2013: At SAE (Study Audio Engineering) San Francisco, Roger speaks about Tempest and LinnStrument, and Carson Day or Dave Smith Instruments demos Prophet 12. (Video)
• 10/23/2012: Roger interviewed in hammarica.com
• 9/27/2012: Roger appears in four events during the Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington, including a live interview with Resident Advisor. Here's a video of Roger's talk with Carl Craig on the evolution of drum machines.
• 5/5/2011, "New Musical Instruments" events at Stanford's CCRMA (pics, video), UC Berkeley's CNMAT (pics, video), SF Music Hackday (video 1, video 2) and SF MusicTech (pics, video).
• 3/7/2011, Interview with Roger and Dave Smith at Red Bull Music Academy event in San Francisco (pics) (video segment of Roger demonstrating LinnStrument)
• 2/12/2011, Roger receives Technical Grammy Award with acceptance speech video and photos
• 2/1/2011, Video segment by local San Francisco NBC TV station about Roger and Grammy award
• 1/20/2011, fan site for band Human League, interview with Roger
• 7/2/2010, KVR Audio, interview with Roger in "Developer Focus" section
• 5/17/2010, SF Music Tech, panel discussion on "The Future of Musical Instruments" with Roger, David Wessel, Max Mathews, John Chowning and Ge Wang (pic).
• May 2008, BBC Radio 2, "Third Reich & Roll" narrated by Stephen Fry, (Roger's segment starts at 8:29 into the recording)
• June 2, 2007, BBC Radio 4, "From Berkeley to the Bronx"
• January 2007, Remix, "Mr. MPC: Roger Linn"
• October 2006, Dazed & Confused magazine (UK), "Doctor Beat"
• June 1, 2006: Video interview by George Peterson with the Dead Presidents Society: Roger & Ingrid Linn, Max Mathews, Tom Oberheim, David Wessell, Dave Smith, Keith McMillen, Jaron & Lena Lanier and almost Don Buchla.
• September 2005, San Francisco Bays' East Bay Express, "The Italian Job"
• 2005, Event at AudioMidi in Los Angeles with Roger, Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle. (Video)
• January 20, 2005, NAMM.org, Video: Roger talks about Dave Smith as part of NAMM's Oral History Program
• 2003, Sonic State, "The Daddy of the MPC and the modern drum machine"
• October 2002, NPR's radio show Morning Edition, "TechnoPop - The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music; Part 6 - The Triumph of the Amateurs" (Roger's interview starts at 6:15 into the segment.)
• June 2002, Sound On Sound, "Designer Drums - The Return Of Roger Linn"
• March 1982, Modern Drummer, "The Drum Computer-- Friend or Foe?", pages 18, 19, 20, 21 and 100.
• May 15, 1976, Roger (with yellow shirt and cowboy hat) playing guitar on Saturday Night Live with Leon Russell.
