Woodwind · Source 07

Flute.

Written as MIDI. Played as a flute.

Write the line in your piano roll and get a flute back on the track — air in the tone at a whisper, bright and effortful at the top.

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 air. The soft notes carry breath; the long note in the middle of the phrase holds one stream of it instead of restarting.

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

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Take 1 · Flute
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as flute. 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 flute 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
07FlFluteC4–C7
Woodwind · Flute
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A flute take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
C4–C7
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Air is the instrument.

Flute tone is breath shaped by an open hole, which is why a sampled flute gives itself away the moment two notes are tied: the recording cannot know the second note was slurred. Here the phrase is rendered whole. Tied notes connect; detached notes get a fresh attack. The note lengths you wrote decide which.

The first octave is soft and easily covered. The third carries over an orchestra and takes real pressure. Both are in the range, C4–C7, and the render keeps the difference — write high and it sounds like work, because it is.

Questions.

Does it add breaths and vibrato?

Breath and air are part of the tone and follow the phrasing you wrote. Vibrato follows the register and the dynamic, not a dial.

Can I give it a flute I like?

Yes. Drop up to 30 seconds of a flute recording on the TIMBRE well and the part is played in that tone.

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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