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
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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 1 (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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- 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 sampler 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
- Topic Starter
- 3894 posts since 31 Oct, 2002 from Montreal, Canada
The spectral view showing the frequencies is the orange background and the standard amplitude view is the blue foreground. 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 accordingly.
Here, I am using iZotope RX Advanced audio editor but there are others too that have spectral editing capabilities.
The sample is from my Patreon Reward sample pack #38.
https://youtu.be/WOCktTvIgwE
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 accordingly.
Here, I am using iZotope RX Advanced audio editor but there are others too that have spectral editing capabilities.
The sample is from my Patreon Reward sample pack #38.
https://youtu.be/WOCktTvIgwE
