Woodwind · Source 08

Clarinet.

Written as MIDI. Played as a clarinet.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a clarinet back on the track — woody at the bottom, clear over the break, harder where you wrote it louder.

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 break. The line crosses from the low register into the clarion mid-phrase, and the colour changes while the phrase keeps going.

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 clarinet’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

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Take 1 · Clarinet
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as clarinet. 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 clarinet 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
08ClClarinetD3–B♭6
Woodwind · Clarinet
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A clarinet take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
D3–B♭6
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Three registers, one instrument.

A clarinet overblows at the twelfth, not the octave, so its registers sound like three instruments: the chalumeau is hollow and woody, the clarion clear, the altissimo thin and reedy. A sample library records each one and hopes the seams fall between notes. Here the line crosses the break the way a player crosses it.

Louder is not only louder. Push the air and the tone hardens; back off and it goes round and sub-tone. Velocity does that here, not a fader.

Questions.

Does it follow velocity?

Yes, as tone, not only level. A high velocity comes back harder and brighter; a low one rounder.

Can I write a clarinet section?

Render each part as its own track and mix the stems. Each render is one player, so a section has the spread a stacked copy does not.

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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