Roland's Virtual Accordions part 1 of 9
Recently, I enjoyed an evening with the Roland Virtual Accordion,
and thought I’d share my impressions with you. This is not a full
review, as I did not have the instrument in my shop for a teardown
or close physical exam.
This article represents my personal views only.
There are basically two models, from which all variants are derived.
The two platforms share several things in common, significantly in
the Bass and Chord modes. In the Tradition of the Roland Virtual
Harpsichord, they have studied and included a whole raft of variants
so that Students and fanatics alike can have the chance to access
6 different stradella Key patterns as well as 5 freebass modes.
This alone is kinda awesome, and i feel in the Spirit of how Roland
and Mr. Kakehashi have always done things. The average student
would never be able to afford all those different varieties... only a
select few have that kind of opportunity in a lifetime. But in the
VR accordion, you can explore essentially a roomful of
free reed instruments.
There was not time to map into the details, so i'm not sure if the
individual tuning of notes feature extend to the bass as well,
but if i could run 3 rows of Bass with one counter an octave off
the prime, and let's see... i'll take major minor and diminished for
the chords... You all know the first song i'm gonna do is
"Purple Haze"
copyright VHM Co. MMVII all rights reserved contact accordion@att.net
On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 8:24:32 PM UTC-7, Ventura wrote:
Roland's Virtual Accordions part 1 of 9
Recently, I enjoyed an evening with the Roland Virtual Accordion,
and thought I’d share my impressions with you. This is not a full
review, as I did not have the instrument in my shop for a teardown
or close physical exam.
This article represents my personal views only.
There are basically two models, from which all variants are derived.
The two platforms share several things in common, significantly in
the Bass and Chord modes. In the Tradition of the Roland Virtual
Harpsichord, they have studied and included a whole raft of variants
so that Students and fanatics alike can have the chance to access
6 different stradella Key patterns as well as 5 freebass modes.
This alone is kinda awesome, and i feel in the Spirit of how Roland
and Mr. Kakehashi have always done things. The average student
would never be able to afford all those different varieties... only a
select few have that kind of opportunity in a lifetime. But in the
VR accordion, you can explore essentially a roomful of
free reed instruments.
There was not time to map into the details, so i'm not sure if the
individual tuning of notes feature extend to the bass as well,
but if i could run 3 rows of Bass with one counter an octave off
the prime, and let's see... i'll take major minor and diminished for
the chords... You all know the first song i'm gonna do is
"Purple Haze"
copyright VHM Co. MMVII all rights reserved contact accordion@att.net
This very interesting. I'm in the "sure would like to try one, but don't want to spend thousands just to see" camp. For now I'll stick with my "real" piano accordion made 40+ years ago. At least I can fix that one!
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