Roland FR3 Jam-Cathie Travers

first jam session with my new FR3; hooked up to a Korg X5 and [ancient but fabulous] two Yamaha TX7's...transmitting on three MIDI channels; bass-box setup as standard stradella. Still learning how to control the beast...and having lots of fun :-)

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• Indie
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• Jazz
• accordion
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• Roland
• V-accordion
• FR7
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[rodrigovilleda]

Hi Cathie, wow congrats!, help me with a thing. im trying to buy the fr3bs and you are the only person that i find in utb with your own fr3 so i have a cuple of questions. first do i need another thing to can play my accordion? forced to buy an amplifier or a midi controller? or just can i playit out of the box like plug and play? and how you recommend it commpared with an real analog accordion like the piginis series? tnku and real congrats you rock!

[AccordionJo]

hi Rodrigo, FR3s has amp+speakers on-board, also many accordion samples and a few orchestral instrument samples too. Like all digital instruments it bears very little resemblance to an acoustic instrument...with digital - EVERYthing is incremental, whereas anything analog is curvacious and sensual :-) Anyway, you can certainly plug+play with the 3S.

[ze8520]

wow...

I never saw anything like this

grat great great Cathie....

you're awsome....very talent...

congratulations friend... * *

[AccordionJo]

Hi, and thanks for watching Jose. Digital gadgets are pretty cool...I like playing around with different soundworlds :-) Best wishes for your own playing!!

[chriskar5]

Fantastic!!! Absolutely awesome. You are a keyboard genius. Thank you for sharing :o)

Chris

[AccordionJo]

Thanks Chris. I've had the FR3 a couple of months now and am starting to really enjoy it as a MIDI controller - the bellows are a very intuitive physical means of sending MIDI data to other digital sound sources.

[JoeTube8809]

Heya, strange i came across this, its the sort of stuff i play to myself, but i didnt think it would be anywhere out there! You are brilliant my friend, would be great to jam sometime!!...if you happen to watch my vids, disregard the irish stuff, i was quite bored lol. i will post some more vids so watch my space!! Regards, Joe

[AccordionJo]

hi Hideshi, sorry for my ignorance - I don't know Mike Ratridge. Bellows movement is needed for all the treble keyboard sounds; on the bass-box when using 'orchestral' bass sounds it's not necessary to move the bellows, but it is necessary for the accordion sounds on the bass-box.

[hideshikibi]

this video is more Rock ! than other your videos. i feeled Mike Ratridge's play ???is it strange? roland accordion is very good than i immagined. but i have one qestion ..if don't move bellows, it can not sound?

[AccordionJo]

hi Mattis, in the faster part it's the on-board clarinet sample, mixed with a slightly metallic string-like patch on a Yamaha TX and a plucked sound from a Korg X5; just before that it's the on-board harmonica mixed with other sounds from the TX and X5.

CT