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KeysFla
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What I found interesting, Paul mentioned the iPad Pro can connect wirelessly. Verses getting extra video touchscreen…
I keep seeing huge advantages in a keyboardist being able to free up the left hand to play with the settings, play with the portamento or make changes to voice selection all mid-song and many other things.
Realistically, how much could an accordionist copy these moves/changes? It sounds good, but IMHO an accordionist cannot and never will have that level of freedom, and if one removes that from the picture, we are seeing a lot of the shiney stuff disappear.
So, does that mean that it is not for accordionists? Nah, not really. Assuming you like the sounds in addition to the accordion, yes there are many things that an accordionist will not be able to do, but the sounds/styles are all there and **IF** this is your thing, can make a single person sound like many... which, in the end, is what is the true end goal of using an arranger.
One had better be VERY technically comfortable, able to devote a lot of time for programming the songs to sound as they want, a great ear and be not too shabby a player, becuase an aranger won't make a bad accordionist good.
Finally, there is also the danger of being too reliant on the tech. I make it a BIG point to not play my arrangers on more than perhaps 20% of my music. Making it a 50/50 thing would not be a bad idea for sure, because what if you are asking to turn off all that tech... and just PLAY?
I also now see one big challenge if I wanted to go this direction... I would now need TWO iPads, one for the music and one for the control surface of the arranger... thats a lot of complexity to add (not surprisingly, its not something that I would be afraid of... lol)
Realistically, how much could an accordionist copy these moves/changes? It sounds good, but IMHO an accordionist cannot and never will have that level of freedom, and if one removes that from the picture, we are seeing a lot of the shiney stuff disappear.
So, does that mean that it is not for accordionists? Nah, not really. Assuming you like the sounds in addition to the accordion, yes there are many things that an accordionist will not be able to do, but the sounds/styles are all there and **IF** this is your thing, can make a single person sound like many... which, in the end, is what is the true end goal of using an arranger.
One had better be VERY technically comfortable, able to devote a lot of time for programming the songs to sound as they want, a great ear and be not too shabby a player, becuase an aranger won't make a bad accordionist good.
Finally, there is also the danger of being too reliant on the tech. I make it a BIG point to not play my arrangers on more than perhaps 20% of my music. Making it a 50/50 thing would not be a bad idea for sure, because what if you are asking to turn off all that tech... and just PLAY?
I also now see one big challenge if I wanted to go this direction... I would now need TWO iPads, one for the music and one for the control surface of the arranger... thats a lot of complexity to add (not surprisingly, its not something that I would be afraid of... lol)
