Melodeon

Name: Melodeon
Price: 9.99 USD
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Egert-Olger Lattemaa

Button accordion

$9.99

1 Rating
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Egert-Olger Lattemaa
Language

EN
English
Size

61.9
MB

A collection of diatonic accordions for practice and play. Authentic look and sound. Includes 12 accordion sounds. Built-in songbook with hundreds of titles and scale tutorials.

Ratings & Reviews

1.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Not good for iPads!
Jun 23

NemoNepersonne
I got this to practice two-row button melodeon in GC, as found on a Hohner Erika. I love how this app lets me set up a large variety of reed tones and a huge number of keys. However, it somehow changes my iPad Pro to vertical only, and there is no easy exit. Once I managed to get out, but was stuck in Vertical. The next try, I couldn’t get out at all! In both cases, I ended up turning off the iPad, then restarting. In both cases the iPad reverted to its correct format. But I’m not going to use it again. This has been out for at least 11 years, but its controls seem circa 1990. Why is it so rudimentary? Why isn’t it set to work well with iPads? I’m out $10, for which I received ten minutes of frustration.
Not good for iPads!
Jun 23

NemoNepersonne

I got this to practice two-row button melodeon in GC, as found on a Hohner Erika. I love how this app lets me set up a large variety of reed tones and a huge number of keys. However, it somehow changes my iPad Pro to vertical only, and there is no easy exit. Once I managed to get out, but was stuck in Vertical. The next try, I couldn’t get out at all! In both cases, I ended up turning off the iPad, then restarting. In both cases the iPad reverted to its correct format. But I’m not going to use it again. This has been out for at least 11 years, but its controls seem circa 1990. Why is it so rudimentary? Why isn’t it set to work well with iPads? I’m out $10, for which I received ten minutes of frustration.
Doesn't sound very good at all, frustrating to play.
09/20/2013

Seisiuneer
I think the bottom line with this app is that it just doesn't sound very good or demonstrate any real care by the developer for actual players of the instrument. Sure it has a lot of layouts in one app (in reality most players only play one or two button layouts/tunings at most anyway) and is fairly responsive, but at the end of the day it just sounds very tinny and artificial, only made worse by the odd sounding reverb (notes get cut off like it's a sustain rather than true spatial reverb) and dry/wet options. There are some other fundamental usability issues particularly with the two-row accordions on the iPhone version that are very frustrating to play and make them useless for traditional Irish players. The biggest difference between this and the Hohner-branded SqueezeBox apps is that on the Hohner apps every note is indvidually recorded from a real instrument and optimized for best sound, giving a very realistic experience. This app sounds to me like all the sounds are synthetically generated.I think most players will find this app very unsatisfying to play. Save your money.
Doesn't sound very good at all, frustrating to play.
09/20/2013

Seisiuneer

I think the bottom line with this app is that it just doesn't sound very good or demonstrate any real care by the developer for actual players of the instrument. Sure it has a lot of layouts in one app (in reality most players only play one or two button layouts/tunings at most anyway) and is fairly responsive, but at the end of the day it just sounds very tinny and artificial, only made worse by the odd sounding reverb (notes get cut off like it's a sustain rather than true spatial reverb) and dry/wet options. There are some other fundamental usability issues particularly with the two-row accordions on the iPhone version that are very frustrating to play and make them useless for traditional Irish players. The biggest difference between this and the Hohner-branded SqueezeBox apps is that on the Hohner apps every note is indvidually recorded from a real instrument and optimized for best sound, giving a very realistic experience. This app sounds to me like all the sounds are synthetically generated.I think most players will find this app very unsatisfying to play. Save your money.
1 row accordion not included
09/26/2021

Dballcaus
The photo does not match the app. I downloaded the app for the 1 row accordion, as shown in the photos, but there is no option for that.
1 row accordion not included
09/26/2021

Dballcaus

The photo does not match the app. I downloaded the app for the 1 row accordion, as shown in the photos, but there is no option for that.
Bad update
10/07/2017

Mlineguy1991
The sound sort of improved but now it resets all the settings every time it's closed which is ANNOYING!
Bad update
10/07/2017

Mlineguy1991

The sound sort of improved but now it resets all the settings every time it's closed which is ANNOYING!