LinnStrument, 200 Pads, Music, Expressive MIDI, Tune like Violin or Guitar - Fresh Stock Dated February 2026

Description

LinnStrument - Like new.
This is the larger of the two models with 200 pads.
This listing comes with everything pictured; its original case, cable, letter from Roger Linn and strap connectors.
Works with every MIDI synth. MPE-compatible.
From the LinnStrument website:
Meet LinnStrument, an expressive MIDI controller for musical performance. Unlike a standard MIDI keyboard, LinnStrument senses your fingers’ subtle movements in five dimensions, enabling musical performance expression rivaling that of fine acoustic instruments.
LinnStrument's notes are arranged as on any stringed instrument. 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.
You can tune the rows like a guitar, violin or however you wish. By default they are tuned in musical fourths (five semitones), like a bass guitar with 8 strings. 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 3800 LinnStruments sold.
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. Alternatively, you can light any scale and in any of 10 colors.
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. 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.
To also perform
fully polyphonic pitch slides and Y-axis gestures
, you'll need a synth that's compatible with
MPE
(MIDI Polyphonic Expression), a new MIDI standard that uses a separate MIDI channel for each touch. It's already supported in
a long list of major software and hardware instruments
.