hardly
the innoation came from Ikaturo Kakehashi directly and personally
to define the goal.. the initial design came from Japan, the base Programming
framework came from Japan, the core basic Sampling was partly sourced
from the archival library thet Roland had established as a core progressive
and ongoing investment
then the project was assigned to the Europe division which was based in Italy
at the old SIEL factory which Roland had purchased long ago
there was nothing physical invented that did not already exist in some form
or other product, the task being to engineer existing knowledge into the
form factor of the accordion, and working out the details to achieve this
then the audio control Model created by Luigi bruti and patented by him, regarding
how the sound is evolved and affected in real time by various modeled
factors such as reed inertia, different pressures, influence from other reeds
vibrations, etc. was grafted onto the Roland VK control programming
and that was the difference, and new innovation perhaps, done partly so that the
entire design could be protected under patent from any other company attempting
a competing product. modeling was becoming common in Amplification at the time,
and was very trendy and easy to market
this control model is not unlike that done preiously with the piano, to make the
realism more lifelike as they took into consideration of all the many things
that happen after a piano key strikes a string and the rest of the Piano colors
the eventual sound on a string by string level (previously had been globally modeled)
to follow any direction of combined development of sound as the music is played.
and vibrations build up and interact.
the V-Accordion could have been created and marketed without the Bruti patent work
using existing models grown from digital wind instrument knowledge.
the entire marketing of the device then became absolutely founded and married
onto the philosophy of the Bruti note process engineering patent
this can certainly be called innovation in some ways, it can also be called
a velvet noose. Bruti's team then had total control of final sound programming
which is where the limitations and decisions andarrogance put on the final product
became what we had to live with and work around until the end of the product
software development and the closing of the Roland facility in Aqua Viva, Picena
the widely used Roland sound core LSIC finalized and put into production
at that time and stll being used today includes all the sound work done in Aqua Viva
the other offshoot is that the final price of the V-Accordions has always had to
include Royalties to Luigi personally for his privately owned patents
much of this philosophy of interaction during sound development to
follow reality in a physical instrument was continued into the Dexibell
project which began as Aqua Viva ended, and resulted in a very expensive
digital Piano model which then seeded an entire (Vivo) Piano line for them.
they have since added a sound module and Organ, but no accordion.
Dexibell is now under the umbrella of Proel Spa
