From 1906 the brothers Kiselevs' factory in Tula began to produce bayans with the three-row free-bass left keyboard. In 1900 in Moscow Russian master Bakanov made a garmon with piano keyboards for both right and left hands each w/ 30 Keys from C to F. The problem was solved in the early 1900s by adding three rows of chromatically ordered single notes next to the standard bass. However, while that setup worked well for major and minor music accompanied by many chords, the performer would only have access to about a major seventh of bass notes while playing, or two octaves with a timely shift of registers. This feature makes it incredibly easy to lay down live accordion performances using both hands to play.By the year 1900, the Stradella bass system had principally reached its current construction with 120 buttons over six rows. The Kontakt keyboard is split into right and left hand playable ranges indicated by the blue keys.Ī real accordion has a very distinctive style of playing which you can easily emulate by using the on-board chord sequencer within Sonokinetic Accordion. Sonokinetic Accordion is controlled in a very similar way. Traditionally these are used to underpin the right hand’s melody. The left hand will perform bass notes and chords on a rank of buttons. Above this keyboard there are ‘register’ buttons, which create a particular tone by utilising different sets of reeds. The player’s right and left hands have very different functions: The right hand will normally play a melody on a piano style keyboard. This creates the accordion’s characteristic pumping sound. His two arms will grip either side of the accordion and squeeze and release to push air through the bellows and reeds. This will allow you get the most out of the instrument and help to make your ‘accordion’ performance more realistic.Īn accordion of this type is usually worn around the player’s neck, positioned in front of his chest. If you have the sequencer active, it will play one of the preset patterns, or you can program your own, using the interface.īefore we look at the functions of Sonokinetic Accordion it’s useful to know a little about how a real-life accordion is played. The Kontakt script has a built in chord analyser, so it will automatically choose the right button sample for the chord you play.
#Free bass accordion method full
The sequencer allows you to make full use of all the playing styles of a real accordion and do so very intuitively. Making these patterns accessible to keyboard players would demand more than just mapping the recorded sounds to the keys, so we’ve integrated a sequencer into the Sonokinetic Accordion.
This method of playing explains the often quite complex and challenging patterns played with apparent ease by even mediocre accordion players. The way the instrument is laid out allows for a great deal of flexibility, allowing you to play all kinds of chords with just one button in the left-hand section, and switching between bass notes along the cycle of fifths really easily. Then of course came the challenge of making all of this accessible from a master keyboard, and that’s when we realised how ergonomically ingenious a real accordion actually is. We also recorded short attack notes for all the basses, at different velocities. For the basses side we captured samples with and without the extra low octave. We started by recording all tones the instrument made, in all registers. We are very proud of the finished product and believe that it will empower lots of people to make MIDI recorded accordion tracks that sound like they were played under a bridge along the river Seine. The accordion brings a breath of fresh air and evokes feelings of romance, passion and nostalgia.Īs with other Sonokinetic instruments, we focused on getting a ‘real’ sound instead of a ‘perfect’ sound, as you can hear from the demo tracks skilfully created by our demo composers. The instrument can provide you with a very nice ‘couleur locale’ whenever you need to give a song that French twist.
The accordion is an instrument that has been on our ‘to do’ list for quite some time. Sonokinetic proudly presents ‘Accordion’.
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