Synthesist John Schussler shared this audio demo of Praetereo Versio, a free, third-party random looper for Noise Engineering’s Versio platform.
Noise Engineering describes Versio as “a shapeshifting effects platform”. It’s a hardware effects platform for Eurorack that lets you load a variety of firmware, letting you use the module in a variety of ways.
Praetereo Versio decides at random whether or not to record, creating a soundscape that’s “reminiscent of the source audio without quite being it”.
Guitarist, songwriter and instrument designer Roger Linn (LinnDrum, MPC, Tempest) shared this video, telling the story of the creation of the LinnStrument.
Linn discusses the impetus for creating the LinnStrument, the instrument’s design, and the actual physical construction of the instrument.
LinnStrument is a unique expressive MIDI controller that builds on stringed instrument performance technique. The instrument senses your fingers’ subtle movements in five ways:
Strike Velocity
Pressure (Z)
Left-right (X)
Front-back (Y)
Release Velocity
This enables for much more expressive control than is possible with most MIDI controllers.
The LinnStrument, along with the Haken Continuum, showcases the expressive potential of moving beyond traditional MIDI controllers and has paved the way for more expressive keyboard synthesizers, like the Expressive E Osmose and Ashun Sound Machines Hydrasynth.