I would like somebody to suggest me any good vsti or sample cd/dvd with good
accordion samples.
I need a Flaco Jimenez or Los Lobos style.

Thanx

Buenaventura Durruti wrote:
I would like somebody to suggest me any good vsti or sample cd/dvd with good
accordion samples.
I need a Flaco Jimenez or Los Lobos style.

Thanx

I usually use stock Roland general midi patches. The style you're
talking about uses a sharper tuning, which translates into more of that
"vibrato-ey" sound. You can approximate that if you need to by adding
chorusing, or recording 2 identical tracks, and making 1 of them
slightly sharper than the other.

Or, for somewhere between $4k & $5k USD, you can get this from Roland:

http://www.roland.com/products/en/FR-7/index.html

It looks amazing, and sounds incredible from the online demos I've
seen. But you need to be a real accordionista to want one. :-)

singproinc wrote:
Buenaventura Durruti wrote:
I would like somebody to suggest me any good vsti or sample cd/dvd with good
accordion samples.
I need a Flaco Jimenez or Los Lobos style.

Thanx

I usually use stock Roland general midi patches. The style you're
talking about uses a sharper tuning, which translates into more of that
"vibrato-ey" sound. You can approximate that if you need to by adding
chorusing, or recording 2 identical tracks, and making 1 of them
slightly sharper than the other.

Or, for somewhere between $4k & $5k USD, you can get this from Roland:

http://www.roland.com/products/en/FR-7/index.html

It looks amazing, and sounds incredible from the online demos I've
seen. But you need to be a real accordionista to want one. :-)

If you can play a synth, you can probably play an accordion without too
much of a learning curve. And a used accordion will run you only about
$100 plus shipping on ebay...

Actually, the Roland MIDI accordion could be nice for playing samples
of non-keyboard instruments like strings, flutes and trumpets. One
advantage the accordion has is its ability to change volume in subtle
ways after you press a note -- by changing bellows pressure. I've had
some fun multitracking Bach keyboard suites on voice at a time on
(acoustic) accordion. It allowed an unusually expresssive performance,
since I could crescendo into some of the harmonic tensions rather than
having them fade away after the keypress. (These recordings are on the
recent Unseen Cinema DVDs, the film "Tree Trunk to Head," if anyone out
there is an avant garde cinema fan....)

Rodney Sauer
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
www.mont-alto.com

"Buenaventura Durruti" wrote in message
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I would like somebody to suggest me any good vsti or sample cd/dvd with
good accordion samples.
I need a Flaco Jimenez or Los Lobos style.

Thanx



It's Cajun - I was on a session once with Jo-el Sonnier, another US Cajun
player, who actually layered his parts to get it sounding even more
mangled... might be worth splitting a clean sound across two tracks, then
doing a slight pitch shift on one.

Here in France, it's common for certain players to order their instruments
set-up this way, with the reeds slightly out of pitch, the equivalent of
honky-tonk piano tuning.

RM

Thanx to everyone. I´ve found this little vsti in
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1318.html that might work. It seems to sound not
too classic and mellow. I have to try it out.
I´ll try this slightly-out-of-tune trick.

Have a nice day:-)

Roger Moss wrote:
"Buenaventura Durruti" wrote in message
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I would like somebody to suggest me any good vsti or sample cd/dvd with
good accordion samples.
I need a Flaco Jimenez or Los Lobos style.

Thanx




It's Cajun - I was on a session once with Jo-el Sonnier, another US Cajun
player, who actually layered his parts to get it sounding even more
mangled... might be worth splitting a clean sound across two tracks, then
doing a slight pitch shift on one.

Here in France, it's common for certain players to order their instruments
set-up this way, with the reeds slightly out of pitch, the equivalent of
honky-tonk piano tuning.

RM



Flaco is his own thing. It's not particularly Cajun. I beleive
he significantly thins the reeds. The Tex-Mex/Norte style o'
squeezebox is more based on oom-pah-pah polka stuff than
on Cajun. *Much* more. The predominantly German-settled
central part of Texas ( around Neu Braunfels ) had a
lotta beer-hall music happening, and it cross pollinated
with traditional Mexican styles to be
El Norte/Tex Mex. Weird, but true

I am not sure, but I think the thinner reeds are for
attack purposes - the thing just doesn't play fast
enough otherwise. In Norte, the accordion is mainly
about antiphonal filligree - it's gotta be quick.

There are several free .sf2 files on http://www.sf2midi.com/
Dunno if they're any good. Search for "accordion"

Flaco is like Bill Monroe or something. A real
innovator.

--
Les Cargill

"Les Cargill" wrote in message
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Flaco is like Bill Monroe or something. A real
innovator.

He is certainly an innovator, but he's also following strongly in the
footsteps of his father, Santiago Jimenez, who was something of a patriarch
of Conjunto players. Arhoolie put out a CD of 78 reissues a while back,
over-processed but still worth hearing. Flaco's brother, Santiago Jr., is
also superb, rather more traditional in sound, and incredibly soulful. I'm
prejudiced -- Santiago Jr. was my introduction to this great music.

Peace,
Paul

The "Peti" from Luigi at DASH is excellent. I use it whenever I need ANY
type of accordian and do not have an actual live player here.

http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com

http://dashsignature.com


--
Regards,

Ted Perlman
Producer-Arranger-Composer-Guitarist

www.tedperlman.com