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Overview

Name | Version: Accordion 1.1
Author: presbycusis
Device Type: Instrument
Description: A physical model of an accordion. The patch uses a purpose-built external called freereed~ which does fancy maths to model the vibration of a reed. It's polyphonic - 5 voices.

Accordion takes MIDI inputs for frequency (note) and bellows pressure (velocity). If bellows pressure is too high or too low the reed doesn't vibrate. In the middle it makes surprisingly little difference to the level or tone.

Other Controls:
Response - time in ms for pressure to ramp up at the beginning of a note and down at the end.

Reed Q and System Q - represent damping in the reed and the rest of the system. To sound, System Q must be a lot less than Reed Q (try about 1/5 to start with). Then change them to see changes in tone.

Plate thickness: 0 to 1 representing thickness of the plate that the reed sits in. Start about 0.07 and try changing.

Version 1.1: New build of the external freereed~ that should be more stable across machines.

Details

Live Version Used: 8.1.5
Max Version Used:
Date Added: Nov 08 2010 21:26:21
Date Last Updated: Nov 24 2010 15:31:09
Downloads: 3613
ⓘ License: AttributionShareAlike
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Files

Device File: Accordion.amxd
 


Comments

crashed my mac
Posted on November 13 2010 by stanzarossa | Report Issue
stanzarossa: Sorry about that - would you mind posting some details so I can investigate? (It was developed on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard)
Posted on November 14 2010 by presbycusis | Report Issue
doesn't seem to come with the freereed external - is it properly frozen?
Posted on December 22 2010 by wetterberg | Report Issue
Oops, sorry I've taken so long to see the above post. It seems to work OK for me - at least, I removed all references to freereed~ on my machine (I think) and downloaded, and it re-instated it. However this is the first time I've included a purpose-written external. Does anyone else have problems downloading?
Posted on February 07 2011 by presbycusis | Report Issue
Hi, would you like to share the source code of freereed~ please ?
It's to make a 64bit version.
Cheers.
F./
Posted on May 28 2019 by eltnet | Report Issue
No sound is coming threw it...What should I do?
Posted on April 04 2020 by dragonforce | Report Issue

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