Vintage Accordion is a new virtual instrument based on a vintage italian accordion made in Castelfidardo in the 60s years. To realized it I made a deep study about its special sound. I love that sound and all its expressive variations!

To capture its soul I worked with amazing technical tools (from microphones to sound card, from editing software to development system)! I recorded, edited and looped almost 1300 waveforms for a total of 2GB of memory storage.

All samples are perfectly looped. I recorded all the registers of my accordion, all the keys for 4 velocity layers and 2 round robin. I adopted a filter to simulate the harmonic variation of sounds during its dynamic range. I separately recorded the key-on and key-off noises for a more realistic sound! Now I can tell: "Yes! This is its real sound!".

"Vintage Accordion" is based on an old Titano Accordion made in Castelfidardo (Italy) by Victoria in the 60s years. This instrument is one of the most acclaimed vintage accordions on the market. Its sound, with the "tube chamber" solution, allows the musicians to explore all the expressive possibilities that an accordion can produce!

I used 4 dynamic layers and 2 round-robins for each note of the instrument. A special filter modulated by expression pedal allows a great "crescendo" effect to obtain a real bellow controlled sound. A Tremolo effect is modulate by "modulation wheel"

All the samples of the Vintage Accordion are perfectly looped with "DSPQuattro" audio editing software. In this way, you can play very long notes from your instruments without interruptions. 

The 7 registers of the real accordion are implemented: Basson (16"), Bandoneon (16"+8"), Organ (16"+4"), Master (16"+8"+4"), Oboe (8"+4") and Piccolo (4"). I provide to set various presets, from left and right hand together to single register presets to manage every MIDI configuration.

Control panel with: single voice volume (16", 8" and 4"), key noises volume (key-on and key-off). Reverb on/off, time and wet/dry controls. Accordion registers are selection-able in the control panel or by Key-switches.

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System Requirements

•Vintage "Titano Accordion" implementation

•1289 Samples

•>1,8 GB Storage

•96 kHz Sample rate

•24 bit resolution

•All sample are perfectly looped

•4 velocity layers

•2 Round robin per layer

•Filter modulated by Expression (CC11)

•Tremolo effect modulated by Modulation wheel

•7 accordion registers implemented

•key-on and key-off noises

•register change noises

•Key Switch for quick register change

•Adjustable volume for each voice (16", 8", 4" and noise)

•right hand and left hand presets

•Powered by UVI Engine XT™

•Requires UVI Workstation v2.5.6 or later

•UVI.net provides UVI Workstation for free!

•UVI Falcon full Compatibility!

•Playable by Motu Machfive too (requires v3.2.1)

•PACE protection system (free iLok account required)