geoffwright Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael sam wild Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Hi Geoff Is it anything like Mike Eykins app for IPhone? Any link to a web site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Hi Geoff Is it anything like Mike Eykins app for IPhone? Any link to a web site? Just search Google. http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=1147 Interesting indeed! I thought Wakker made a similar midi concertina instrument? There is not enough demand for concertinas for Roland to bother with it, through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Hersh Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Hi Geoff Is it anything like Mike Eykins app for IPhone? Any link to a web site? Just search Google. http://www.rolandus....?ProductId=1147 Interesting indeed! I thought Wakker made a similar midi concertina instrument? There is not enough demand for concertinas for Roland to bother with it, through. Here is the information about the Wakker Midi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jggunn Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I think that the S-Wave concertina is close to what you have in mind. There is a website you can google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Kruskal Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=1147 Well this looks very cool. Roland has made a name for itself for creative instrument modeling in interesting packages. Ever try a Handsonic? http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.php?ProductId=199 These features would be great in a 38 button Anglo concertina. PBM (Physical Behavior Modeling) Noises stopping-reed growl, closing valve noise, left button noise Individual reed simulation hysteresis threshold, expression curve, pressure-variant filter, pressure-variant pitch deviation Reed sound wave switching by bellows acceleration, by note repetition speed Musette tuning Micro tuning presets 15 (Dry, Classic, F-Folk, American L/H, North Europe, German L/H, D-Folk L/H, Alpine, Italian L/H, French, Scottish) Effects reverb 8 types chorus 8 types, rotary (Slow/Fast) for organ sounds Panel controls Knobs VOLUME Panel switches 4 treble registers + ORCHESTRA/ORGAN button, SET/FUNCTION register, 3 bass registers, ORCH. BASS button, ORCH. CHORD button, LEFT REGISTER button, KEY/DEMO button, USER PROGRAMbutton, DRUMS button, TABLATURE button, POWER button Operation modes ORCHESTRA/ORGAN modes Solo, Dual Key 12 possible keys (C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, Tablatures 12 types, Bass On/Off Octave Down, 0, Up (for Treble and Orchestra/Organ), 4 User Program memories[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jggunn Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Hi Geoff Is it anything like Mike Eykins app for IPhone? Any link to a web site? Just search Google. http://www.rolandus....?ProductId=1147 Interesting indeed! I thought Wakker made a similar midi concertina instrument? There is not enough demand for concertinas for Roland to bother with it, through. Here is the information about the Wakker Midi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jggunn Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I think that Wim has, at least temporarily, suspended manufacture of the midi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
box_player Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 That Roland . . . I think I'm in love. If only I had a first-born child to sell to get one! However, one minor drawback -- like a solid-body electric guitar, it appears to need an amp to make itself heard. I'd really like one that sounded like an ordinary 3-row diatonic when not plugged in, and then had a cable-plug-activated interface that brought the whole thing to digital life when possible. Still, there must be a small, poorly guarded neighborhood bank around here somewhere. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cboody Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Just looking at the spec for the brand new Roland fr-18 digital button box. Looks a great idea. 3 rows and you can configure it to any keyboard layout you fancy. How long before we get a digital concertina - 4 rows and you can configure it however you want. Design your own keyboard. Anyone fancy the idea? Hasn't Roy Whitely already pretty much done this?? http://www.accordionmagic.com/Video.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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