Strings · Source 17

Cello.

Written as MIDI. Played as a cello.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a cello back on the track — grain in the low strings, a singing tenor register, bowed where the notes tie.

Play it in the browser or on a track in your DAW · dø1, $12 a month with Pro
§ 01 · Hear it

Hear it.

Listen for the grain. On the low notes you hear the bow take the string; higher up the same instrument sings.

The part is the melody of After You’ve Gone — 34 notes at 138 bpm, the one the chooser on /sources plays on every instrument. This is the cello’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

17VcCelloC2–A5
Take 1 · Cello
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as cello. Nothing played, sampled or edited.

§ 02 · In your DAW

MIDI in. Audio out.

Write the part in the piano roll you already use — Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One — with dø1 on the track, or upload a .mid at /tools/sources. Notes, timing and velocity are read as written.

What comes back is a cello take: dry, close-mic, 24-bit / 48 kHz, on the track it came from. Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Render again and you get a different take.

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month: 2,000 credits, dø1 (AU and VST3) and Dø Desktop, which installs it.

Get the DAW plugin AU & VST3 · installs with Dø Desktop
17VcCelloC2–A5
Strings · Cello
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A cello take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
C2–A5
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Grain at the bottom, voice at the top.

A cello’s low strings are thick enough that you hear the bow grab them — a grain in the attack that gives a bass line its weight and that a sampler smooths away. On the A string the same instrument sings like a tenor. The range is C2–A5 and both ends are in it.

There is no legato patch. Overlapping notes render under one bow, notes with air between them get a fresh attack, a long note with rising velocity swells. The articulation is in how the part is written, which is where a cellist reads it too.

Questions.

Can it play a bass line and a melody?

Yes. It is one instrument across the range: write low for the C string’s weight, high for the A string’s voice.

Does it follow slurs and dynamics?

Tied or overlapping notes bow through; gaps re-attack; velocity drives the bow pressure.

Is it free?

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month.

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