He means in firmware.
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Thanks, as always, for the replies!
Awesome. Iāve heard other people say they donāt need envelopes and thatās a great endorsement. Thanks!
Good to hear!
OK. Cool. Thanks for the confirmation.
@jasonw22: any experience playing a Linnstrument? In the absence of one to demo, Iām collecting as many anecdotes as I can.
Unfortunately, no. Iām very very tempted to buy one. The only thing preventing me from pulling the trigger is this:
I can wait on the Linnstrument, theyāll make more. But itās very rare to find a Continuum at that priceā¦
EDIT: But I think Iāve got to let the Continuum go. I bought a guitar about a month ago and will be taking a classical guitar class at the local community college. Thatās enough practice and expense for a while.
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Oh man. Yeah, I saw that. You taking the plunge?
No. Just edited the post. Gonna stick with my new guitar and give the bank account some rest.
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I believe this boils down to technique. You can achieve very slow and control pitch bends and parameter mods on the Linnstrument. Aftertouch gives almost as much control as some of the very good keyboards controllers. But, to achieve the precision you seem to be after will take practice and control - but is doable.
You might also want to look into the Continuum.
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Doable with some study is exactly what I was hoping to hear.
Thanks and happy new year!
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The last couple of firmware updates have been pretty stellar. The velocity response has improved dramatically since I received by device at the end of the summer. Itās still not like playing a piano, and I suspect it never will be, and probably shouldnāt be, but itās a lot more playable nowadays.
The most recent update also allows you to greatly increase the dynamic range of the sensor; before the update I was able to reach the maximum pressure output very easily (too easily in my opinion), but the update allows you to set the device so that a much greater force is needed to max out the output. While this may be slightly less ergonomic, I feel it greatly increases the expressive range of the instrument.
In this regard, I think the pressure response of the linnstrument is very well suited for slow modulations (especially since the last update), and you could definitely accomplish this with the x axis response. The y axis is a little bit tricky, in my opinion. I find this modality to be the most difficult to play with meaningfully, but I expect this will improve with practice.
The pressure can be easily set on the linnstrument to output 7 or 14 bit CCs, which is what Roger is referring to in the quote posted earlier. I have found 7 bits to be adequate, but itās definitely nice to have the 14 bit option.
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Oh! Iām happy to be corrected on this point! 
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It was in a pretty recent update. The excellent support and continued development are definitely among my favorite things about the linnstrument.
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I probably shouldnāt have, but I played a Haken Continuum at NAMM yesterdayā¦ daaaaaamn. I know what I am getting nextā¦
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I realise it was probably a relatively brief experience playing the Continuum at NAMM, but how would you compare it to the Linnstrument? What makes you want to buy one?
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Itās just incredibly responsive in every dimension and feed great to play. The onboard DSP synthesizer sounds great too.
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Thanks to advice from this community and then a trade, I now have a linnstrument. Itās a real joy to play, especially with MPE synths (A Modor and Deckardās Dream). Iām wondering if anyone here has encountered good exercises for practicing with it? Could be sheet music, tab, whatever, just curious if anyone here has encountered or invented a disciplined way to improve their playing. If so, let me know!
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I get great mileage out of practicing the Linnstrument as if it were a guitar. Same scales/exercises, etc.
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Thanks! thatās helpful, do you use all the same chord voicings? This is the part of the linnstrument that I feel is trickiest.
My hand has a hard time making the same chord shapes, rotated 90 degrees, as I would use to play chords on the guitar. Obviously, itās easy enough if I use two hands. But then I feel like Iām kind of not taking advantage of the spacious layout of the keys and when attempting something like a left hand bass/chords and right hand melody kind of thing, It feels a little tricky/cramped to play one-hand chords. Iām trying to figure out other, more vertically splayed forms of familiar chords but havenāt gotten there yet.
Apologies if this doesnāt fit into the āwhat are you doing withā¦ā prompt of the thread, but as this seems to be one of the Linnstrument hubs in the forum ā does anyone have experience using both a Linnstrument and a Sensel Morph? Iām curious about the differences in physical sensitivity / configurability between these two.
I currently have a Morph, and while itās really responsive in some ways, I feel like the lighter-pressure-responsiveness needs tuning that Senselās apps donāt provide. For example, the āsensitivityā seems to control a pressure threshold after which a note on or off is sent, rather than defining a curve or something like a velocity delta. The result for me is that it takes more pressure than I expect to trigger a note-on, and a note-off comes sooner than Iād like. Does the Linnstrument exhibit problems like this when playing with light pressure?
I have been using 16 of the pads for cc-control. This works really well!
I am still only scratching the surface of my Linnstrument, but my favorite things are:
The layout: As a guitar player I never got comfortable with the piano layout of midi kayboards.
Pitch bend: Even in monophonic mode being able to slide and use vribrato is SO nice!
After touch/expression: Like mentioned before, using 16 pads to mirror 16 knobs is great.
I am demonstrating it 40 minutes into this interview: https://youtu.be/iZut6Ksv5I0?t=2440