Roger Linn, Stephan Schmitt, Carla Scaletti and Gerhard Behles

[Kevin Austin]

Four designer inventors speak briefly about themselves and their instruments.

https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/visionary-designers-and-their-instruments/

Roger Linn, Stephan Schmitt, Carla Scaletti and Gerhard Behles are all visionary designers who have created new instruments with broad commercial appeal – among other things, they are responsible for giving music makers the MPC, the Linn Drum, Reaktor software, the Kyma Sound Design System, as well as Ableton Live and Push. Straddling the worlds of software and hardware, between tools for expressive performance and environments for sophisticated sound design, their inventions have had a decisive influence on the way music is made today.

At the 2015 Loop summit, Linn, Schmitt, Scaletti and Behles sat down together to discuss their individual backgrounds, motivations and ongoing explorations in the field of instrument design.

Kevin