YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
After 10 months and over 250 hours of dedicated time, my MIDI Accordion has finally come to life! Check it out!
Now that I know my implementation works, I’m excited to share this project page with everyone to inspire other accordionists/musicians/programmers/tinkerers/etc. to do the same. If you want to build your own MIDI accordion, check out the Project Overview page or the GitHub Readme to get started.
A huge thank you to everyone who inadvertantly contributed to this project by sharing all the software and tutorials I used to make it happen. It was a very fun project, and I learned a lot. Special thanks to Dmitry Yegorenkov for the original project and initial inspiration of which this entire endeavor is based - I literally would not have even thought this project could be feasible without your work.
I’m not done yet, though - there are still a bunch of bells and whistles I can add to enhance this accordion’s ability as a MIDI instrument, and I’m super excited to design and implement them. But first, I’m going to take some time to enjoy the fruits of my labor…