Roger Linn’s single-tab discipline fuels a lifetime of musical invention

The Verge interviews Roger Linn, the inventor behind the MPC, LM-1, and LinnDrum, who credits decades of innovation to keeping things simple and focused—often with just one browser tab open. He recounts how MPC and LinnDrum shaped 1980s music, how LinnStrument pushed MIDI polyphonic expression years before the standard, and shares his go-to tools (MacBook Pro, Rhino3D) and hobbies like VR mini golf and Vision Pro.