The ILIO Naada Collection IV bundles ten physically modeled solo instruments from Western musical traditions, utilizing the AccelMatrix Naada physical-modeling engine for real-time acoustic simulation. This collection includes trumpet, baritone and tenor sax, French horn, clarinet, harmonica, double bass, acoustic guitar and bass, and oud.
Delivering a bright, direct voice, ILIO Naada Trumpet is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time the full dynamic range of this instrument, from pianissimo to fortissimo, via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid you can shape lip tension dynamics, breath articulation, mute timbres, and vibrato, letting you push from a soft, veiled tone into full brass projection. By sliding across the pitch surface you can utilize smooth glissandi and pitch inflections. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting brass section chords, layered horn lines, or sustained notes under independent solo phrases. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Trumpet requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
Trumpets in their most primitive forms appear in the archaeological record of ancient Egypt, Scandinavia, China, and the Aztec civilization; the valved chromatic trumpet emerged in 1818 and quickly became the soprano lead voice of the brass section. The model captures the full dynamic arc from a contained pianissimo to a blazing fortissimo.
GeoShred Control connects an iPhone or iPad via USB to serve as a dedicated multitouch performance surface alongside GeoShred Studio. MPE-compatible hardware and wind or breath controllers also connect directly for hands-on expressive control.
Covering the full range of tones, from the brightening upper register to the full, dark low register down to the Low-A extension, ILIO Naada Baritone Sax is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers fretless glide, portamento, and full chromatic access via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can shape embouchure control, breath dynamics, and tonal weight in real time. You can engage in fully polyphonic playing, allowing you to anchor bass lines under harmonic pads, voice chords, or layer independent phrases simultaneously. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Baritone Sax requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
A low-A extension key on most modern instruments reaches below the standard low B-flat. In jazz, Harry Carney anchored the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s reed section for nearly half a century, while Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams demonstrated the baritone’s capacity as a lyrical and technically agile solo voice. The instrument provides the harmonic foundation for saxophone sections in big bands and concert ensembles alike.
Wind and breath controllers, which align naturally with the clarinet’s breath-driven acoustic behavior, connect directly to GeoShred Studio, which is built from the ground up for continuous multidimensional input. GeoShred Control pairs over USB with GeoShred Studio, putting a free multitouch iOS surface in a performer’s hands during live play.
From the rich, warm low register through the projecting middle and into the bright altissimo, ILIO Naada Tenor Sax is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers fretless glide, portamento, and full chromatic access via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can shape embouchure dynamics, breath character, growl intensity, and vibrato depth in real time. You can engage in fully polyphonic playing, allowing you to sustain harmonic pads under solo lines, voice chords, or layer independent phrases simultaneously. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Tenor Sax requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
Extended techniques central to jazz performance vocabulary, including subtone (partial embouchure engagement for a breathy low register), growl (simultaneous humming through the instrument), and altissimo (harmonics above the standard range), are not discrete playing modes but continuous variations of the same acoustic mechanism. From Coleman Hawkins establishing the tenor as a jazz solo voice in the 1930s, to John Coltrane extending its vocabulary in the 1960s, the tenor sax remains the dominant saxophone in jazz, rock, R & B, and film scoring.
Wind and breath controllers, which align naturally with the clarinet’s breath-driven acoustic behavior, connect directly to GeoShred Studio, which is built from the ground up for continuous multidimensional input. GeoShred Control pairs over USB with GeoShred Studio, putting a free multitouch iOS surface in a performer’s hands during live play.
Enjoy the dynamic range and warm tone of a conical-bore horn with ILIO Naada French Horn is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time opened-to-stopped timbral variation and vibrato via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can move from a distant, contained pianissimo into full brassy fortissimo. By sliding across the grid, you can engage in smooth legato and glissandi. You can also utilize fully polyphonic playing, supporting voiced horn section chords, layered and sustained pads, or hold pedal tones under independent melodic lines. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada French Horn requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
Its three or four rotary valves direct airflow through additional tubing to change pitch, while the player’s right hand inside the bell continues to shape tuning and timbre. This dual role as both a brass and a woodwind-blending voice made the horn a crucial element in orchestral writing. The model captures the instrument’s capacity for both distant, floating pianissimo and powerful, open fortissimo, along with the timbral contrast between open and stopped bell positions.
Wind and breath controllers, which align naturally with the clarinet’s breath-driven acoustic behavior, connect directly to GeoShred Studio, which is built from the ground up for continuous multidimensional input. GeoShred Control pairs over USB with GeoShred Studio, putting a free multitouch iOS surface in a performer’s hands during live play.
Defined by continuous pitch bend shaped by the oral cavity and intimate breath dynamics, ILIO Naada Harmonica is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time breath-driven dynamics, pitch bending, and the free reed's characteristic tonal warmth via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid you can shape breath intensity and reed response. By sliding across the pitch surface you can bend into and between pitches with the fluidity of a blues harp player working the low end. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting full chords, layered octave doubles, or sustained rhythm parts under independent solo lines. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Harmonica requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
Bending notes by altering the shape of the oral cavity and tongue position is a defining technique, central to blues, folk, country, and jazz harmonica playing. The model captures the free reed’s tonal warmth, its continuous pitch-bend capability, and breath-driven dynamic range, from a soft reedy whisper, to a full, driving blow.
GeoShred Control connects an iPhone or iPad via USB to serve as a dedicated multitouch performance surface alongside GeoShred Studio. MPE-compatible hardware and wind or breath controllers also connect directly for hands-on expressive control.
Offering the characteristic tonal shifts that define this woodwind, ILIO Naada Clarinet is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time embouchure dynamics and register transitions via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can invoke embouchure, dynamics, reed behavior, and vibrato depth. By sliding across the pitch surface, you can move through the dark chalumeau, the break, and the bright clarion registers. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting voiced clarinet chords, layered independent lines, or the ability to sustain one register while phrasing in another. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Clarinet requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
GeoShred Control connects an iPhone or iPad via USB to serve as a dedicated multitouch performance surface alongside GeoShred Studio. MPE-compatible hardware and wind or breath controllers connect directly for hands-on expressive control.
Access the bright, projecting tone of a steel-string guitar with ILIO Naada Acoustic Guitar, a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time strummed chords, fingerpicked patterns, and expressive melodic lines via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid you can shape dynamics and attack. By sliding across the pitch surface you can glide between positions for hammer-ons, pull-offs, and expressive bends. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting chord voicings, arpeggiated patterns, and multivoice fingerstyle textures. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Acoustic Guitar requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
GeoShred Control connects an iPhone or iPad via USB to serve as a dedicated multitouch performance surface alongside GeoShred Studio. MPE-compatible hardware and wind or breath controllers also connect directly for hands-on expressive control.
Access warm, woody tone and natural-sounding, low-register phrases with ILIO Naada Acoustic Bass, a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers body resonance and organic decay via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can shape attack and dynamics. By sliding across the pitch surface, you can create smooth bass movement or hold multiple notes for chordal bass voicings. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting double stops, chord comping, and layered acoustic bass textures. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Acoustic Bass requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
GeoShred Control connects an iPhone or iPad via USB to serve as a dedicated multitouch performance surface alongside GeoShred Studio. MPE-compatible hardware and wind or breath controllers also connect directly for hands-on expressive control.
Enjoy punchy fingerstyle lines, chordal voicings, and sustained low-end phrases with ILIO Naada Bass, a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers the electric bass's full tonal range via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid, you can shape attack dynamics and sustain. Sliding across the grid creates legato bass lines and can be used to hold multiple notes for chordal bass voicings. You can also engage fully polyphonic playing, supporting double stops and multi-note bass textures. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Bass requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
Place the warm, fretless voice of the Middle East's foundational string instrument with ILIO Naada Oud, a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time microtonal maqam inflections and continuous pitch ornaments via GeoShred Studio's multi-row continuous pitch surface. With advanced AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling, each note is generated as a continuous acoustic event.
By pressing into the grid you can shape pluck attack and body resonance, while moving across the rows shifts the register across the instrument's double-course string range. By sliding across the pitch surface you can glide between microtonal positions to trace the ornamental melodic language of maqam. You can also engage in fully polyphonic playing, supporting sustained bass drones under melodic phrases, voiced chords, or layered, independent, and simultaneous melodic lines. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Oud requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
The deep, pear-shaped body with its rounded back of thin stave strips produces a tone that is warmer and rounder than its European descendant, the lute. The model captures this fretless continuous pitch capability alongside the resonant body response that gives the oud its characteristic depth and sustain.