Soni Musicae DIATO Kontakt 2 version
PRESENTATIONHere is a sound bank of a small diatonic accordion,
with 21 keys on two rows at the right hand, and 8 basses at the
left, and a second stop that sounds lower. A diatonic accordion
does not produce the same notes when you push or pull the bellows,
and this makes this instrument not so easy to play... More, it has
not all the semi-tones of its 3 octaves (from D2 to E5). With this
sound bank, you can forget those drawbacks, because we have
"interpolated" the missing notes, and all the notes are played in a
same manner on a keyboard...
In order to use a sound bank of a diatonic accordion correctly,
you must know that the left keys are used to play accompaniment,
and allow to alternate basses and chords, as you can hear it in a
waltz. This instrument has 6 basses (C, D, E, F, G, A) and 6 chords
(C major, D major, E major, F major, G major and A minor). In order
to play them easily at the same time than the melody, we put them
on the two first octaves of a piano, C-A0 for basses, and C-A1 for
chords. So you can alternate basses and chords balancing fingers
from an octave to the other. It requires a big keyboard with 88
keys, like a piano, or two smaller keyboards with at least 55
keys... To make it easier to use, left keys and right keys of this
accordion are separate in different presets.
You must also know that, on the real instrument, the left keys
can be played with the first or the second stop simultaneaously,
but it is impossible to play the two stops together. It would be
useless, anyway, because the reeds used by the second stop are the
same as the ones used by the first. The second stop adds a lower
sounding reed to the first stop. Please consider this if you want
to use this sound bank in a realistic way.
SOUND ESTHETICSThis sound bank has been created according to the
following aims : we tried to produce the best sound bank possible,
without considering the final weight of it.
According to this, there is one sample for each note. Each
sample has been looped carefully to make this sound bank easier to
use. The final product weighs 135 Mb.
You may find this recording too dry, not reverberated enough. It
is a deliberate choice, because we want this sound bank to be used
in many contexts, mainly in a sequencer. So, it is possible to
modify its sound, and add some reverberation or other effects,
exactly as the user likes, what would have been impossible with a
less neutral sound (for ex : church).
LICENCE
DIATO : CONDITIONS OF USE
Copyright by Eric BRICET and Jean Yves GARET. September, 6th
2008
The soundbank Diato has been sampled by Eric Bricet and Jean
Yves Garet, in August 2008. The authors have decided to distribute
it freely to anyone who will find it useful.
The free licence grants you the right to use the soundbank
according to these conditions :
1 - The licence is granted for an indefinite period of time.
Were the obligations of this contract not respected, we could
require the user not to use the bank anymore.
2 - It is forbidden to sell this soundbank or to insert the
samples in any commercial application. It is forbidden to modify
the samples (except for a strictly personal use). However, it is
possible to create new mapping files (for any software) but this
has to be reserved for personal use, and these creations have to be
transmitted to the authors, who might distribute them freely.Public
use and recordings are accepted freely.
3 - The authors keep property and rights on the soundbank Diato
.
4 - If the user does not comply with these conditions, it could
lead to legal prosecution. The court of jurisdiction will be in
France. The french version of this contract will be applied.
Commercial distribution of this soundbank is illegal and can
lead to legal action.
5 - It is forbidden to distribute this soundbank without
permission.
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