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Amplification/Midi
Rob Lands:
At Sidmouth Scotland Accordions had a stand and were showing their MidiRig accordion electronic systems. As someone who has almost no knowledge of miking up a melodeon (I do have an old microvox system from the 1990's) I was wondering if anyone has experience of their systems. They told me they were moving to providing melodeon systems as well as PA, I know they can have midi output and the instrument can have reeds in (or physically taken out), they said they could supply and convert boxes. Looking at their website they seem to have a miking option as well. Probably not for me but I was intrigued. They did have a live system in a BC (type) box that I had a little try on. The websites are www.Midirig.com and www.ScotlandAccordions.co.uk
David Summers:
So by midi, do you mean they could detect every button push? I guess for a melodeon speed and pressure not needed; but still thats alot of wiring ...
Tone Dumb Greg:
--- Quote from: David Summers on August 20, 2019, 11:15:23 AM ---So by midi, do you mean they could detect every button push? I guess for a melodeon speed and pressure not needed; but still thats alot of wiring ...
--- End quote ---
Key pressure may just be switching but bellows pressure and direction is everything.
I have never heard of a simple mod to midi a melodeon. I suspect they mean adding audio pickups.
Rob Lands:
Nope, its the full job, bellows movement and "buttons". The miking is something I didn't see at Sidmouth but think is mentioned on the website.
Chris Brimley:
Looking at the details in the Scotland Accordions website, it looks like you need a midi accordion to work the midi controller - otherwise, if it uses microphones from a reeded accordion, what's the point? There's an example on their website of a Roland FR1B for sale, which gives you a midi output, and this may have a similar system to the FR18, but they seem to want to pair it up with audio speakers, so I'm not quite sure they are actually correcting the poor sound quality of the FR18 at source. Still, worth looking into.
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