Akkordica

KVR Audio Plugin Resources

  Installing and Uninstalling VST Plug-in

To install VST plug-in, follow these steps:

• The file must be in a directory where the VST host is looking for VST plug-ins.

• Unzip the file.

• Place the Akkordica.dll file into VST Plug-ins Folder of your host application.

To uninstall simply remove the Akkordica.dll file of your VST Plug-ins folder and the "User Guide and Information" and "License Agreement" PDFs files, if you also placed them there.

Version History

Software Development and Release Stages

• v1.0:  First release (General availability)

• v1.0rc1: Release Candidate.

• v0.90/0.98:  Alpha and Beta testing  period. operational testing

Plug-in Credits

Concept and Programming by Daniel Laiseca 

Evaluation & Registration

The codes for the licensed and evaluation versions of this program are identical. The DEMO VERSION is functional. You can do anything you can do with the full version; you can even save your presets. Also in the demo are some presets included to demonstrate the instruments capabilities, but not all sounds may be available. The demo restrictions are:

• - Limited key range: Some presets contains an octave available (Range: C4-B4, Notes: 12, where Middle C equals C4) They are: Anglo Concertina, Strasser Accordion, Hohner Accordion, Musette Accordion, Harmonica Vibrato and Accordina (Harmonicon).

• - Emits a noise every 10 seconds.

• The Registered Version does not have nagging sounds and their use is unlimited.

For more information see the Comparison Chart about “Limitations of the Unregistered/Demo Version” contained in zip file.

The program is a SHAREWARE. You are hereby licensed to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge but if you use this software after the evaluation period, a registration fee is required. 
Note that by registering the software, you enable us to improve it and design new features. 

The full version is available to purchase, as downloadable software, the price is US$34,90, and you can download the full version as soon as your payment is received.

Accordions (from 19th century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina and bandoneón are related; the harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family.

The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand manual, and the accompaniment, consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons, on the left-hand manual.

The accordion is widely spread across the world. In some countries (for example Brazil, Colombia and Mexico) it is used in popular music (for example Forró, Sertanejo and B-Pop in Brazil), whereas in other regions (such as Europe, North America and other countries in South America) it tends to be more used for dance-pop and folk music and as well as in regional and is often used in folk music in Europe, North America and South America. Nevertheless, in Europe and North America, some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is also used in cajun, zydeco, jazz music and in both solo and orchestra performances of classical music. The piano accordion is the official city instrument of San Francisco, California. Many conservatories in Europe have classical accordion departments. The oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning harmonic, musical. Today, native versions of the name accordion are more common. These names refer to the type of accordion patented by Cyrill Demian, which concerned "automatically coupled chords on the bass side".

The advent of the accordion is the subject of debate among researchers. Many credit C. Friedrich L. Buschmann, whose Handäoline was patented in Berlin in 1822, as the inventor of the accordion, while others give the distinction to Cyril Demian of Vienna, who patented his Accordion in 1829, thus coining the name. A modification of the Handäoline, Demian’s invention comprised a small manual bellows and five keys, although, as Demian noted in a description of the instrument, extra keys could be incorporated into the design. Numerous variations of the device soon followed.

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