but there is the rub
what specialized chips are used in an Accordion ?
as in Roland's case, the oriiginal chipset that included the core samples, the
sub silicon assemblies (like the FX circuitry and logic) and the specialized
re-write of some pre-used (from other roland instruments) operational programming
they made their own, of course, since it is unique to the line of products
(every Roland accordion ever built has used the same chipset.. different models
come about from the limitation of enabled features)
Proxima would have had a similar initial chipset they developed, which perhaps
did take a longer time to design (as they had a hill to climb, not having the
resources of Roland or other musical instrument manufacturers available
beyond that core, specialized chipset, you need a microprocessor, a bunch of Memory,
a selection of peripheral modules (like bluetooth/wireless component, or a MIDI soundset,
and some Digital Analog Convertors) and some simple analog audio processing
there are lots of places to source those commonalities, including European and Taiwanese
chipmakers
the shortage caused by dependence on China and Covid would be minimal for
a specialized project like a digital accordion
i mean. my God, you could do it entirely on the Auduino platform if you got desperate
seriously, their bodywork was a done deal what ? 5 years ago ? there should
be a storage room with 15,000 proxima accordion shells if you just made one per day
while you were waiting for R&D to finish the software and get it burned onto a chipset
the speakers? also can be sourced with an italian speaker maker... who needs the
Eminence China branch ?
so i remain "not convinced"