Bringing the shehnai's piercing double-reed voice and ornamental vocabulary to your fingertips, ILIO Naada Shehnai is a virtual instrument for the GeoShred Studio platform that offers real-time expression, including reed dynamics, continuous meend pitch slides, and ornamental gamak articulations 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 intensity, vibrato depth, and dynamic weight. Sliding across the grid allows you to trace meend pitch glides between notes. Use GeoShred Studio's integrated FX rack for sweetening your performance with reverb, amp simulation, echo, and more. Naada Shehnai requires GeoShred Studio (sold separately) to function, which is available in AU, AU3, VST3, or standalone formats for macOS only.
At softer dynamics, the instrument reveals a warm, nasal delicacy shaped by continuous embouchure variation. The model captures the shehnai’s characteristic ornamental language, where meend slides, rapid gamak oscillations, and murki grace-note clusters are not isolated techniques but a continuous flow of pitch movement between structural tones.
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.