Roland FR-7x V-Accordion Demonstration of Using Customized Linked Presets

This video is solely for the purpose of demonstrating how one can use the Roland 7x V-accordion to play a wide variety of songs using custom sets programmed with linked presets. I am using only a single press of the treble tabs to change voices–no footswitch ever–and only very occasionally do I use the master bar. No external modules either, just the Roland 7x. The idea for videos demonstrating the use of the 7x was a result of numerous discussions with Linda Herman, who also plays the Roland 7x using her own customized sets–she also has posted videos showing how she uses the Roland (accordionlinda). In this video I play brief excerpts of a variety of songs using sets that I programmed for diverse styles. Every register has a linked combination of Treble, Bass, and Chord section voices, all accessed by one touch using the 14 Treble registers in each set. The video was recorded in one 15 minute session, completely unrehearsed and in “real time” in order to show the ease of locating appropriate registers for a wide variety of tunes. Instead of proceeding through each set, register by register, I’ve taken the approach I would use in a live “gig”–given a song, I decide what registers will “work.” Contrary to how I would play on a gig, however, I make multiple changes during each song, simply to show the ease of changing the combinations of sounds, which I refer to as “linked presets.” For me, this approach to playing the 7x is simplest, most accurate, and allows me to …