Naada Dizi for GeoShred Studio

The Dimo Membrane's Buzzing Brightness, Shaped By Continuous Breath And Gesture

The realism of physics, the joy of live playing. Naada Dizi places a physically modeled Chinese bamboo flute inside GeoShred Studio, where the dizi's distinctive membrane buzz, breath-driven dynamics, and bright penetrating tone respond directly to pressure and gesture on the playing surface. The instrument is fully polyphonic, supporting chords and layered melodic lines simultaneously.

Works with MPE controllers, wind and breath controllers, and GeoShred Control, a free iPhone and iPad companion app that delivers a multi-touch expressive surface for live performance.

Naada Dizi runs inside GeoShred Studio, placing the Chinese bamboo flute's bright, penetrating voice on GeoShred's multi-row continuous pitch surface. The dizi's most distinctive feature is the dimo membrane that vibrates sympathetically to produce a buzzing tonal character found in no Western flute. Slide across the grid to shift between registers; press into the surface to shape breath intensity and control the membrane's activation. Because the instrument is polyphonic, you can layer multiple dizi voices, voice chords, or sustain held tones while tracing ornamental lines above. GeoShred's integrated FX rack adds EchoMT, Reverb, and AmpCab processing directly in the signal chain.

What's Inside Naada Dizi:

• GeoShred's continuous pitch surface with fretless glide, portamento, and chromatic access across the dizi's full register range.
• Polyphonic performance: layer multiple voices, voice chords, or sustain tones under independent melodic lines.
• Direct access to dizi model parameters including breath dynamics, membrane buzz character, and tonal shaping.
• Integrated FX rack with EchoMT, Reverb, and AmpCab available as part of the performance signal chain.
• Full controller support: MPE controllers, wind and breath controllers, GeoShred Control companion app.
• AccelMatrix Naada physical modeling engine generating each note as a continuous acoustic simulation.

A Membrane That Sings

The dizi is a Chinese transverse bamboo flute with a history spanning over 2,000 years, central to Chinese folk, theatrical, and court music since the Tang and Song dynasties. What sets it apart from all other flutes is the dimo, a thin membrane of reed or bamboo skin stretched over a dedicated hole between the embouchure and the finger holes. This membrane vibrates sympathetically with the air column, adding a buzzing brightness fundamental to the dizi's tonal identity. The model captures both the membrane's characteristic resonance and the timbral contrast between the instrument's lower and upper registers.

GeoShred Studio and GeoShred Control

GeoShred Studio operates as a VST3, AU, or AUv3 plugin inside major DAWs, or as a standalone application. Its isomorphic surface is tuned in perfect fourths, providing a layout where melodic intervals repeat consistently across rows. Pressure and gesture are mapped continuously to instrument parameters, making the surface a direct conduit for expression rather than a series of on/off triggers.

GeoShred Control is a free companion app for iPhone and iPad that connects via USB, adding a second multi-touch expressive surface for live performance. MPE hardware controllers and wind or breath controllers connect directly to GeoShred Studio as well.

GeoShred Studio Required. Running Naada Dizi requires GeoShred Studio ($50), a separate required purchase.

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