Naada Tenor Sax for GeoShred Studio

JAZZ'S DEFINING SOLO VOICE, NOW POLYPHONIC AND UNDER YOUR FINGERS

Realism that follows your every move. Naada Tenor Sax puts a physically modeled tenor saxophone inside GeoShred Studio, where embouchure dynamics, breath character, growl, subtone, and vibrato respond directly to pressure and gesture on the playing surface. The instrument is fully polyphonic, supporting chords and layered tenor sax voices 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 Tenor Sax runs inside GeoShred Studio, placing the tenor saxophone's full expressive range on GeoShred's multi-row continuous pitch surface. Slide across the grid to move from the rich, warm low register through the projecting middle range and into the bright altissimo as a continuous gesture; press into the surface to shape embouchure dynamics, breath character, growl intensity, and vibrato depth in real time. Because the instrument is polyphonic, you can sustain tenor sax pads while soloing above, voice full saxophone chords, or layer independent lines across the range. GeoShred's integrated FX rack adds EchoMT, Reverb, and AmpCab processing directly in the signal chain.

What's Inside Naada Tenor Sax:

• GeoShred's continuous pitch surface with fretless glide, portamento, and chromatic access across the tenor sax's full range including altissimo.
• Polyphonic performance: sustain harmonic pads under solo lines, voice chords, or layer independent phrases simultaneously.
• Direct access to tenor sax model parameters including embouchure dynamics, breath character, growl, subtone, and vibrato.
• 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.

Conical Bore, Complete Harmonic Spectrum

The tenor saxophone is a conical-bore, single-reed instrument made of brass, pitched in Bb. Its conical bore produces a more complete harmonic series than the cylindrical clarinet, giving the tenor a rounder, more open quality across its range. The lower register is rich and full; the upper register bright and penetrating. 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.

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 Tenor Sax requires GeoShred Studio ($50), a separate required purchase.

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