I decided to add accordions to my sonic arsenal. I am far from being a great accordion player, but I find it fun and useful to create soundscapes and sonic textures.
Last February, I was very lucky to find a vintage Excelsior Digisyzer accordion at an affordable price. It has a marvelous sound. I sometimes record while I am learning and taming it. The samples in this pack are extracted from one of these recordings.
This is a collection of a few one-shot samples and not an extensive multi-sampled pack. Not all the keys and buttons have been sampled. There are a few single notes but I mainly extracted bits that I find interesting from my sessions.
They include short sequences of notes or chord/notes combinations that sound good. Possible uses are: one-shot to spice up a piece, looped to create an ambient pulse or mood, thrown in a granular sampler or any other sample mangler.
This first offering of accordion samples is divided in 2 small packs.
- One is my Patreon reward pack 38, with 20 samples (28 MB) and exclusively available to those [who support me on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/lesproductionszvon "who support me on Patreon").
- The second has 47 samples (33.5 MB) and is a free for everyone pack, available to all from my Free Sounds page:
http://lesproductionszvon.com/freesounds.htm
I will post other examples soon.
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Improvising on Phonolyth Shoom synthesizer (iOS).
The 3 speech samples are from the [Memory Collection packs](https://lesproductionszvon.com/Memory_Collection.htm "Memory Collection packs"), sounds from public domain movies.
The first accordion sample (bass at 0:52) is from the above free mini sample pack 1:
The second accordion sample (drone at 1:15) is from my Patreon Reward pack 38.
https://youtu.be/jtgllTKbgYY
Free accordion mini sample pack - one-shot samples
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- KVRAF
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- 3894 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from Montreal, Canada
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- KVRist
- 157 posts since 1 Jan, 2015
Those accordion samples are different and great - thank you. Looking forward to messing with them. 
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
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- KVRAF
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- 3894 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from Montreal, Canada
You're both welcome and thank you for your comments!
The Digisyzer is a fantastic accordion:
Excelsior is a top accordion brand and this model is a high-end full acoustic accordion with an integrated control panel that connects to an external tone generator. The tone generator not only provides accompaniment but also tones that can be played from the accordion. The generator has 4 audio outputs. I’ve read it was made by Kawai.
It dates from the early 1980s and pre-MIDI, it uses a proprietary control interface system.
Note that the one I bought didn’t have its tone generator, so I could not test this feature. And the samples are fully acoustic and unprocessed except for some noise reduction.
Glad you enjoy them!bagpipe200 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm Those accordion samples are different and great - thank you. Looking forward to messing with them.
The Digisyzer is a fantastic accordion:
Excelsior is a top accordion brand and this model is a high-end full acoustic accordion with an integrated control panel that connects to an external tone generator. The tone generator not only provides accompaniment but also tones that can be played from the accordion. The generator has 4 audio outputs. I’ve read it was made by Kawai.
It dates from the early 1980s and pre-MIDI, it uses a proprietary control interface system.
Note that the one I bought didn’t have its tone generator, so I could not test this feature. And the samples are fully acoustic and unprocessed except for some noise reduction.
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- KVRAF
- 2590 posts since 19 Mar, 2008 from germany
Mmh ... it will be difficult to put together a playable multisample
from this. There are only very few pure tones.
In any case: thank you for your samples!
from this. There are only very few pure tones.
In any case: thank you for your samples!
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- KVRAF
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- 3894 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from Montreal, Canada
You're welcome!
True that it is impossible to put together a playable multisample from this. I am just experimenting with the accordion and was looking to extract fun bits that create a mood (like the ones I named pulse) and sounds to process and mangle.
I will likely release more, and maybe longer, pulsing sounds. I may, at some point, do a proper sampling session, meaning playing one key or button at once, in isolation. But even if I do, it will not be soon.
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- KVRAF
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- 3894 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from Montreal, Canada
In this video, I have imported a sample from the mini pack in Tardigrain granular synth to create a deep drone sound.
This sampler is available on the iPad and is mainly played and controlled via the touchscreen.
The stripes (keys) at the bottom of the screen are the playing surface. The lighter grey ones are those that are held. The synth responds to the movement of the fingers on each key. This movement is shown by the black thin crosshairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj7BfyaZwA
This sampler is available on the iPad and is mainly played and controlled via the touchscreen.
The stripes (keys) at the bottom of the screen are the playing surface. The lighter grey ones are those that are held. The synth responds to the movement of the fingers on each key. This movement is shown by the black thin crosshairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj7BfyaZwA
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- KVRAF
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In this video I am using a sample from the Patreon Reward pack 38 to demonstrate an example of spectral audio editing in iZotope RX Advanced audio editor.
The spectral view showing the frequencies is the orange background and the standard amplitude view is at the forefront in blue. Lower frequencies are at bottom of the window and zones where specific frequencies have more amplitude are in brighter orange.
With traditional audio editing, when a time region is selected, any edit is applied to all frequencies. With spectral editing, specific frequencies can be edited, for instance cut or boosted, without affecting the other ones that are at the same time. But of course the overall level of the processed region will change.
https://youtu.be/WOCktTvIgwE
The spectral view showing the frequencies is the orange background and the standard amplitude view is at the forefront in blue. Lower frequencies are at bottom of the window and zones where specific frequencies have more amplitude are in brighter orange.
With traditional audio editing, when a time region is selected, any edit is applied to all frequencies. With spectral editing, specific frequencies can be edited, for instance cut or boosted, without affecting the other ones that are at the same time. But of course the overall level of the processed region will change.
https://youtu.be/WOCktTvIgwE
