Darryl,

If I remember correctly, there are 3 bellows tweaks on the FR-18: an adjustable air valve, a software setting for sensitivity, and a software setting for compression. The compression variable lets the instrument speak naturally or, at the other extreme, makes all notes the same volume regardless of amount of bellows movement.

I agree it doesn't sound like a Cajun accordion, but it has some good externally-mic'd 3-row and other diatonic box sounds. It's also a midi controller, which in theory lets you drive any midi-capable synthesizer with their wide range of sounds. If someone sampled a Cajun box very well, the FR-18 could control a synth into which that sample was loaded. Not that I'm aware of any pro-level Cajun accordion samples.

Russ

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