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Chinese Dizi Virtual Instrument
Whisper of Loong brings the expressive beauty of the Chinese Dizi into your DAW with unmatched realism and flexibility. The Dizi, a bamboo transverse flute, is known for its unique membrane-enhanced tone—clear, bright, and full of emotion. This virtual instrument captures the solo-focused Qudi style of Dizi, renowned for its ability to deliver fluid melodies and intricate performances like flutter-tongue, rapid finger pops, and glissandos with natural finesse.
Recorded with 10 microphones and powered by a custom-built engine, Whisper of Loong gives you deep control over spatial tone and nuanced articulations. With real-sampled vibrato, advanced legato transitions, and expressive MIDI CC control, it responds like a living instrument. Add in convolution reverb from iconic Chinese locations and a powerful effects rack, and you have a deeply expressive Dizi plugin ready for traditional, cinematic, or experimental music production.
Dizi
A Dizi is a Chinese transverse flute-like instrument made of the bamboo trunk. Unlike similar instruments, Dizi has a bulrush-made membrane that vibrates with airflow, making up its uniquely clear and bright sound. Dizi is an incredibly expressive instrument. Besides its smooth and beautiful melodic parts, Dizi can be played with a rich set of performances, such as rapid finger-popping, tongue-flutter, and airflow vibrato, allowing Dizi to play the most complex solo parts.
There are two major variants of Dizi: Qudi (literally melodic Dizi), which is usually used for playing solo works as the primary instrument of complex work, and it is what is presented here in Whisper of Loong; and Bangdi (literally opera Dizi), with its very bright sound, is usually served as the accompanying instrument of traditional Chinese opera.
Adjustable Sound Field
When samples were recorded, 10 different microphones were used with different positions to capture the spatial and reverb characteristics of Dizi. All these channels were mixed down to four channels: Yin, Yang and far stereo. The volumes of these four channels were adjustable in software, making it possible to obtain most various tone.
Performances
By controlling airflow and finger, Dizi has a very rich set of performances such as mordent, finger pole popping, trill, flutter, vibrato, staccato and gliss. All these performances can be triggered in Whisper of Loong software, making it most adjustable Dizi virtual instrument.
Realistic Expressions
Whisper of Loong has real-recorded expressions that are freely controllable. With the control of MIDI CC, it can express tone changes like a real Dizi performance.
Gliss
With three different speeds of real-recorded gliss samples and sample synthesis technique, Whisper of Loong can perform gliss at freely adjustable speed.
Self-developed Vibrato Engine
Real-sample-based LFO engine making Whisper of Loong performs vibrato that is both realistic and adjustable.
Sampling Engine
Self-developed sampling engine with better sound quality, more powerful disk buffer streaming/sampling compression technology, and brand-new sound fusion technology.
Legato
Three-Body Technology recorded the sound between legato notes in two speeds, and apply them according to playing speed in software. In addition, they recorded "popping legato" that are specific in Chinese Dizi.
Convolution reverb
At the beginning of Chinese Traditional series development, we started to record the convolution reverb samples from spectacular places, famous natural and historical heritages in China. Thus you can simulate Whisper of Loong being played at the Great Wall or Terracotta Army site.
Effect Rack
From the Heavier7Strings' effect rack: Compressor, EQ, Chorus and Ping-Pong delay are included, allowing to create more flexible sounds.
Pattern Library
Complete pattern library allowing to manage your works and ideas easily, with rich preset of patterns that can be updated in the future. And you could create your own pattern by dragging MIDI clips inside.
Presets
Various presets from Chinese traditional to experimental to the edge.
Features
- Authentic Qudi-style Chinese Dizi virtual instrument
- Real-sampled performances: flutter, trill, mordent, gliss, and more
- Adjustable multi-mic sound field with Yin, Yang, and far stereo channels
- Custom vibrato engine based on real Dizi playing
- Legato transitions recorded at multiple speeds, including Chinese-specific “popping legato”
- Realistic glissando with three recorded speeds and adjustable playback
- Includes convolution reverbs from iconic Chinese heritage sites
- Built-in effect rack: compressor, EQ, chorus, ping-pong delay
- Extensive pattern library with drag-and-drop MIDI support
- Presets spanning traditional Chinese to modern experimental styles
System Requirements
- macOS 10.9+ / Windows 7+
Plugin Formats
- 64-bit VST2, VST3, AAX and Audio Unit.
Important note: Logic 9 is not supported
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