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Vintage Accordion

Vintage Accordion is a new virtual instrument based on a vintage Italian accordion made in Castelfidardo in the ’60s.

“To realize it I made a deep study about its special sound. I love that sound and all its expressive variations! To capture its soul I worked with amazing technical tools (from microphones to sound card, from editing software to development system)!  I recorded, edited and looped almost 1300 waveforms for a total of 2GB of memory storage. All samples are perfectly looped. I recorded all the registers of my accordion, all the keys for 4 velocity layers and 2 round robin. I adopted a filter to simulate the harmonic variation of sounds during its dynamic range. I separately recorded the key-on and key-off noises for a more realistic sound! Now I can tell: “Yes! This is its real sound!” Enjoy it!” – (Paolo Principi)

Technical Specifications

World Musette

World Musette consists of a collection of “musette” sounds from all over the world: from America to Italy, from France to North Europe and more.
The Musette Accordion Sound is based on 2 or 3 voices: the main 8″ voice and 1 or 2 8″ detuned voices.
Each kind of Musette has its own detune values, from 4 cents to 23 cents.
World Musette implements 7 programs: 6 different kinds of Musette with registers for a total of 20 different Musette sounds and 1 Left Hand program for accompaniment.

Bandoneon

Bandoneon consists of a Philological reproduction of an historic Alfred Arnold Bandoneon made in Germany in the 50s!
His typical sound is based on 2 reeds (Zinc) for each note.
PSound Bandoneon has been sampled in 4 layers with 2 round robin for a total of 440 samples (1 GB storage)