accordion

This is a demo video for Best Service Accordions, a virtual instrument by Eduardo Tarilonte. Read more…

Koop – Koop Island Blues

While Koop’s music sounds like it’s played by a small orchestra, the music is based on samples. (Details below)

Koop is Oscar Simonsson & Magnus Zingmark. Read more…

Cool Music Instruments’ Chromaticover is slightly bizarre device that turns your synthesizer into an accordion.

The Chromaticover is a hardware chromatic keyboard, with an accordion-style mechanism for both right hand and left hand. The keyboard features magnetic MIDI sensors, with the key touch of a real accordion.

The Chromaticover sits directly on top of your existing keyboard or piano keys so you don’t loose any additional space. It has been designed to fit any keyboard: it just sits on top of the existing keys, making your instrument a fully operational chromatic keyboard.

Left hand: 120 active bass buttons
Right hand: 86 active buttons

Details at the Cool Music Instruments site.

via DeviantSynth

We’ll admit it – this video of the V-Accordion Festival sort of freaked us out with its frightening majesty.

The technology behind Roland’s V-Accordion line, though, is pretty interesting – combining everything you know and love about accordions (Italian restaurants) with a slice of MIDI-controlled synth action. It does orchestral sounds, physical behavior modeling and has MIDI out for controlling Live, your bent Casio or whatever freaky gear you get your synth on with.

Anyway – Roland has announced an accordion contest, with the grand prize being a trip to Rome to jam with the V-Accordion babes at the V-Accordion festival.

Note: they actually make no mention of V-Accordion babes in the contest rules, but if you play the accordion, you can dream.

This is a demo of the Roland FR-1 V-Accordion at NAMM 09.

Check this previous post for details/specs on the Roland FR-1 V-Accordian.

via RolandChannel