Everything the player and the editor can do

The full list of features of both programs. Each is described in detail in the documentation, and what is free and what is paid is in the plan comparison.

Player

Instruments

  • Button accordion, B griff: 106 buttons, 5 rows
  • Button accordion, C griff
  • Piano accordion: 41 keys
  • 120 Stradella basses
  • Free bass with a mirrored layout

Display

  • Front view and the performer’s view
  • Highlighted presses and hints ahead of time
  • Finger number in the corner of the button, and finger colour
  • Duplicates on the auxiliary rows
  • Zoom: see the buttons close up, the picture stays sharp
  • Registers of both hands, left-hand mode

Note lanes and notation

  • Note lanes floating toward the instrument
  • Staff under the instrument
  • Dynamics, slurs, staccato, accents
  • Bellows, chord names, basses in brackets
  • Leland font, as in MuseScore

Practice

  • A–B loop on chosen bars
  • Tempo 25–200% in steps of 25%
  • Metronome with an accent
  • A bar of count-in before the start
  • Sound and display for each hand separately

Settings

  • Labels: notes, fingers, none
  • Octave numbering: school and scientific
  • Full screen with a 0–10 s delay
  • Ukrainian and English
  • Everything is remembered

Video

  • Recording your playing with sound
  • Full HD: 1920×1080 horizontal, 1080×1920 vertical
  • MP4 (H.264 + AAC) or WebM, 30 frames per second
  • A caption with the title and the site, and a link to our site at the bottom
  • Choosing where to save

Account and browser

  • The player works without an account; in the browser it is free after you sign in
  • The editor in the app, and in the browser with a subscription
  • Sign-in through the browser, devices are visible in your account
  • One trial period per account

Editor

Import

  • MuseScore 3–4: .mscz, .mscx
  • MusicXML: .musicxml, .xml, .mxl
  • MIDI: .mid
  • LilyPond: .ly
  • Choosing hands for each staff or track

Layout

  • Automatic choice of buttons and basses
  • Stradella, free bass, mixed left hand
  • Switching the mode by hand, bar by bar
  • Fingering with six preferences
  • Registers from the score

Editing

  • Piano roll and staff in sync
  • Adding, moving, changing duration
  • Buttons by clicking the instrument
  • Fingers with the keys 1–5
  • Undo and redo

Markings

  • Staccato, accent, slur, enharmonic spelling
  • Bellows: push and pull
  • Dynamics pp–ff, crescendo, diminuendo
  • Chord names: M, m, 7, dim, custom
  • Notes in brackets (a chord from another bass)

Ornaments and loudness

  • Trill, mordent, turn, tremolo, grace note
  • Performance variants, collapsing into one note
  • Loudness curve (MIDI dynamics)
  • Dynamic markings build the curve by themselves
  • Registers bar by bar for each hand

Export

  • Player file .accplay
  • Several instruments in one file
  • MusicXML 4.0 with accordion markings
  • PDF A4: title, subtitle, author, tempo, copyright
  • Project .accproj to keep working

Site

After you sign in, the whole player is available right on the site, in the browser, with nothing to install, and with an editor subscription the editor too.

Open the playerOpen the editorPiece library

Apps in the browser and the library

  • The whole player in the browser for signed-in users: your own .accplay files, demos, practice, video recording
  • The editor in the browser with a subscription: import, automatic fingering, export
  • The same look and features in the browser and in the apps (LilyPond only in the desktop app)
  • A closed library of pieces approved by editor users
  • Playing pieces in the web player on the site: buttons, fingers, registers, staff
  • Search by title, composer and arranger
  • Submitting your own pieces for review right from your account
  • Access: a library subscription, an editor subscription, or a year after buying the editor
  • Downloading .accplay files for the apps, mobile ones too, for library and editor subscribers

What of this is free?

The whole player, video recording included, is free. Only the editor is paid: by subscription or once, with a trial period.

Prices and comparisonDownload the player