I'll cast my vote for accordion also, but I don't think 2 votes will have much impact!
Seriously, that's a nice idea. I'm currently using the Garritan World Instruments accordion, both concert and French versions, and it's not too bad although lacking in the dynamics area. I'm also using Insert Piz Here's midiChords to allow playing chords with my wind controller, but it would be nice to have that capability built into the instrument itself. Even keyboard players might like 1-finger chords like a real accordion's left hand.
Of course you'd need a number of presets, at least the equivalent of Garritan's concert, French, concertina, and Italian musette versions.
Similar physical sound source but usually played with a lot more dynamic expression and using more physical control by position of the hands/fingers and (really interesting multi-tone effects !) tong and lips, and therefor benefiting more from the SWAM technology vs a sample library: Blues Harp.
dickbarbour wrote:
Even keyboard players might like 1-finger chords like a real accordion's left hand.
Being (an uneven) keyboard player I don't see how "1-finger" should work on a usual keyboard (instead of a two-dimensional knob-keyboard. You need to define as well the chord-kind as the base-key.
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Seriously, that's a nice idea. I'm currently using the Garritan World Instruments accordion, both concert and French versions, and it's not too bad although lacking in the dynamics area. I'm also using Insert Piz Here's midiChords to allow playing chords with my wind controller, but it would be nice to have that capability built into the instrument itself. Even keyboard players might like 1-finger chords like a real accordion's left hand.
Of course you'd need a number of presets, at least the equivalent of Garritan's concert, French, concertina, and Italian musette versions.
Dick
-Michael
Being (an uneven) keyboard player I don't see how "1-finger" should work on a usual keyboard (instead of a two-dimensional knob-keyboard. You need to define as well the chord-kind as the base-key.
-Michael