Employ extreme pitch bending and a nasal timbre with ILIO Naada Guan, a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time expression, including in-mouth reed control and a vocal-like tonality 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 reed dynamic response, growl intensity, and tonal weight in real time. Sliding across the grid allows you to bend and glide with a freedom similar to that of a bowed string instrument. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Guan requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
This in-mouth technique enables extreme pitch bending, sliding, and growling that approaches the expressive freedom of a bowed string instrument. The model captures the guan’s distinctively reedy, nasal timbre and its continuous, gesture-driven pitch vocabulary.
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.