Documentation
Guides to the Accordion Player player and editor: getting started, settings, file formats, shortcuts, the piece library and answers to common questions.
- Getting startedInstalling, the first launch, the demo pieces and your first own piece, in ten minutes.
- Player guideEvery button, marking and setting of the player: playback, practice, full screen, video recording.
- Editor guideImport, layout, fingering, editing notes, markings, checking and export.
- Formats and importWhat carries over from MuseScore, MusicXML, MIDI and LilyPond, and the .accplay and .accproj files.
- Keyboard shortcutsAll the keyboard shortcuts of the player and the editor on one page.
- Piece libraryHow to open the library, play its pieces and submit your own piece for review.
- Questions and answersInstruments, left-hand systems, payment, problems with launching and sound.
The two programs in brief
Accordion Player is a free program for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, and also a web version in the browser (after you sign in). It records Full HD video without limits. It opens .accplay files and shows on a model of the accordion which buttons and keys to press, with which finger and which register, and plays the piece along with you.
Accordion Editor is a desktop program (macOS, Windows, Linux) and a web version for accounts with a subscription, in which a piece is prepared: you import the music, check and correct the layout onto buttons, add markings and save a file for the player, as well as the music in MusicXML and PDF.
Terms
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Right hand | The melody keyboard: buttons (button accordion) or keys (piano accordion). |
| Left hand | The bass keyboard of 120 buttons. |
| Stradella system | A left hand where one button gives a ready-made bass or chord: major (M), minor (m), seventh (7), diminished (dim). |
| Free bass system | A left hand where each button gives a single note, as in the right hand. Switched on instruments with a converter switch. |
| Combined (Stradella and free bass) | An instrument that has both systems and switches them during play. |
| B griff and C griff | Two arrangements of notes on the button keyboard of the right hand (and of the free-bass left). |
| Auxiliary rows | The rows of a button accordion that duplicate the notes of the main rows for convenient fingering. |
| Register | A set of voices (reeds) that sound together: clarinet, bandoneon, tutti and so on. |
| Bellows | The direction of the bellows: push (›) or pull (⌉). |
| Chord from another bass | A chord played after a foreign bass; its “own” bass is written in brackets. |