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Diatonic Accordion
Copyright by Eric
BRICET and Jean Yves GARET contact : blanchet_1720« at » voila.fr
(Replace « at » with @)
en date du 6 septembre 2008 The sample set « Diato » has been created by Eric Bricet and Jean Yves Garet, during 2008 summer. A
diatonic accordion does not produce the same notes when you push or
pull the bellows, and this makes this instrument not so easy to play...
More, it has not all the semi-tones of its 3 octaves (from D2 to E5).
This sound bank covers C2 to E5, because we have interpolated the
missing notes (so the instrument is not "diatonic" anymore)... Moreover, we have created an optional definition which
allows a proper use of basses and chords (see sidebar) | Read before use :
To
play properly this sound bank of a diatonic accordion, you must know
that the left keys are used to play accompaniment, and allow to
alternate basses and chords. This instrument has 6 basses (C, D, E, F,
G, A) and 6 chords (C major, D major, E major, F major, G major and A
minor). We have kept this disposition.
In order to play the accompaniment simultaneously with the melody, we have put them on the first octave of the keyboard,
with this particular disposition : the basses on the white keys (except
for the B, which will be assigned to the E major chord), and the chords
on the black keys (except fot the E major chord, assigned to the B). Of course, the rest of the keyboard is normal.
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| Using this sound bank and the softwares Hauptwerk or GrandOrgue, it
is possible to play a 40 keys virtual accordion, on two
registrations : a normal 8' (2 reeds per note), and a plenum 16'+8' (3
reeds per note).
The authors have decided to give it freely to anyone who will find it useful. | | Remark
: Note that on the real instrument, it is impossible to play the two
stops together, because the reeds used by the second stop are the same
as the ones used by the first. The second stop adds a lower sounding
reed to the first stop. Please consider this if you want to use this
sound bank in a realistic way. |
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This soundbank has been
created for the softwares Hauptwerk
and GrandOrgue,
and the mapping files (extension : *.organ) are usable only with
these programs. However, the samples, in 'wav' format, are usable in
any sampling program (for ex : Kontakt, Halion, etc...). If you
create special mapping files for these programs (Kontakt, Vsampler,
Halion, GigaStudio, etc...), please transmit them to us, because it
will be suitable to distribute them freely to the community. But we
do not accept any modification of the samples themselves. In
particular, we refuse them to be reduced for an integration to a
General Midi bank, or a low quality soundbank.
It is forbidden to sell
this soundbank or to insert the samples in any commercial
application. Before downloading this sound bank, read
here the conditions of use |
DOWNLOAD
the Diato sample set, in
3 files, (90 Mb complete ; decompress all in the same directory) :
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FICHIERS DE
DISPOSITIONS
We propose 2 disposition files for this accordion :
1) diato.organ, adapted to organ midi keyboards, from C2 to E5, without basses and chords (accompaniment).
2) diato+Bas_Acc.organ : same disposition as diato.organ, but with the first octave used for basses and chords, according to the sidebar schema. |
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