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Flint · 10-11-2008, 09:26 PM

I saw one today; specifically a Roland V-Accordian. I was at the Celtic Heritage Festival. Coolest thing ever... for... accordian players.

I've drooled over the Roland V-Drums for years. They use virtual sound modeling--much like if you wanted to test a new airplane design without actually building it, you'd get a computer to mock up the physics. For the V-Drums, you could say, give me a seven-ply birch shell, 10" by 10", with a coated head, close-mic'd with an AKG or whatever, in a large room with concrete walls, and it would "model" that sound and spit it out. Same for V-Guitar, which has MIDI pickup that converts your guitar to a manipulable signal that can be tuned differently or "model" different amps, or layered instruments. And now... the same can be achieved... for accordian players.

10-11-2008, 09:26 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Digital Accordian I saw one today; specifically a Roland V-Accordian. I was at the Celtic Heritage Festival. Coolest thing ever... for... accordian players. I've drooled over the Roland V-Drums for years. They use virtual sound modeling--much like if you wanted to test a new airplane design without actually building it, you'd get a computer to mock up the physics. For the V-Drums, you could say, give me a seven-ply birch shell, 10" by 10", with a coated head, close-mic'd with an AKG or whatever, in a large room with concrete walls, and it would "model" that sound and spit it out. Same for V-Guitar, which has MIDI pickup that converts your guitar to a manipulable signal that can be tuned differently or "model" different amps, or layered instruments. And now... the same can be achieved... for accordian players. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**