And LinnStrument gets around MIDI's one-channel Pitch Bend limitations by automatically quantizing polyphonic pitch slides to semitones, while leaving solo pitch slides continuous.

LinnStrument sends standard MIDI messages over its USB or MIDI output jacks, and is configured by default to work out-of-the-box over a single MIDI channel for compatibility with every MIDI sound generator in existence, but with the advantages over a MIDI keyboard of performed vibrato, note-to-note pitch slides, polyphonic pressure sensing, and forward/backward touch control. Or if you're a piano keyboard player, do what many LinnStrument players do: place LinnStrument behind your keyboard for expressive solo performance with your right hand. Alternatively, you can light any scale and in any of 10 colors. To make it easy to find the right notes, the scale notes are lit, with all the C note pads lit in a different color and having a Braille-size bump for tactile feedback.

3) 5 octaves (on the large model) fit in a playing surface that's only 18.7 inches (475 mm) wide. 2) There are multiple instances of each pitch, permitting solo and accompaniment play in the same pitch range, and a variety of fingerings for each chord or scale. The Fourths String Layout has other advantages over the piano keyboard: 1) It's isomorphic, meaning that the same chord or scale fingering works in all musical keys. This note arrangement is called the 4ths String Layout and is fast becoming a new standard for expressive musical control, used in Ableton Push, Roli's LightPad Block, a variety of iPad apps and now over 4200 LinnStruments sold.

By default they are tuned in musical fourths (five semitones), like a bass guitar with 8 strings. You can tune the rows like a guitar, violin or however you wish.

Each row is a series of consecutive semitones, so bends and pitch slides are simple and intuitive: play a note, slide left or right to the destination note, then wiggle it for vibrato. So LinnStrument's notes are arranged as on any stringed instrument.

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