1. Advanced Self-Developed Sampling Engine
At the heart of Tear of Land lies a self-developed, high-performance sampling engine that ensures superior sound quality. The engine uses powerful disk buffer streaming, optimized sample compression, and innovative sound fusion technology, offering the best performance for both traditional and modern compositions.
Engine Highlights:
- Better Sound Quality: The engine ensures that every note and expression is captured with exceptional depth and authenticity.
- Advanced Sample Compression: With optimized compression technology, Tear of Land offers high-quality sound with a compact file size, maximizing disk efficiency without sacrificing detail.
2. Flexible and Detailed Performance Options
The Xun is known for its dynamic range, from soft, breathy notes to more forceful sounds. Tear of Land accurately captures this flexibility with a range of expressive performance features:
- Mordent, Finger Pole Popping, Trill, Flutter, Vibrato, Staccato, and Gliss: These expressive techniques, key to the Xun, can be triggered through MIDI commands in the software, allowing you to add complex nuance to your compositions.
- Realistic Tone Control: The instrument captures subtle changes in tone, much like a real Xun, and allows for precise control over the tone via MIDI CC. Whether you’re creating eerie atmospheres or emotionally charged soundscapes, Tear of Land responds to your input like the real instrument.
- Vibrato Engine: A real-sample-based LFO engine drives the instrument’s vibrato, making it both authentic and adjustable, allowing you to customize the vibrato speed and intensity.
3. Glissando and Legato Techniques
Tear of Land brings the intricate glissando and legato techniques of the Xun to life. These techniques enhance the expressiveness and realism of your performances:
- Glissando: Tear of Land features two different real-recorded glissando speeds, which can be adjusted to your preferred pace for fluid, seamless transitions between notes.
- Legato: The Xun’s characteristic legato playing style is meticulously captured with recordings in three speeds. Additionally, “regular legato”, “popping legato”, and “cry legato” samples add depth and authenticity to legato transitions.
- Self-Developed Spectrum Fusion Legato Technology: Traditional cross-fading techniques often cause phase-cancellation issues. To solve this, Three-Body Technology developed spectrum fusion legato, which blends samples using frequency domain fusion instead of simple cross-fading, ensuring smoother, more natural transitions.
4. Immersive Sound Field
Tear of Land was recorded using five different microphone positions to capture the Xun’s spatial characteristics, and the results were mixed down into four channels: Yin, Yang, and far stereo. The adjustable sound field allows you to fine-tune the spatial quality of the instrument, making it suitable for a wide range of genres and moods. Whether you need the intimate close-up sound or a more distant atmospheric effect, the instrument can be shaped to fit your needs.
Adjustable Parameters:
- Sound Field Ratio and Width: These parameters allow you to modify the mix of near-field and far-field sounds, ensuring that the Xun can sound natural in a variety of acoustic spaces, from intimate environments to large, open landscapes.
5. Convolution Reverb
To further enhance the realism of your compositions, Tear of Land includes convolution reverb based on recordings from iconic Chinese heritage sites. This allows you to simulate the acoustics of historic locations such as the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army, bringing the sound of the Xun into these legendary environments. The reverb adds an extra layer of authenticity, making your music feel as though it is being performed in these vast, ancient spaces.
6. Abundant Sound Effects
Tear of Land features a range of expressive sound effects, inspired by both traditional Chinese techniques and cinematic compositions. These effects help preserve the natural essence of the Xun while also offering more flexibility in sound design:
- 8 Performance Techniques: In addition to the standard techniques, the library includes special effects like flicking, hammer revert, muting, and more.
- Special Techniques: Derived from ancient Chinese styles, these effects capture the emotional expressiveness of the Xun in ways that align with both traditional and modern musical genres.
7. Effect Rack for Customization
Tear of Land comes with a comprehensive effect rack, offering powerful tools to shape your sound:
- Compressor: Smooth out dynamics for a more polished sound.
- EQ: Fine-tune the tonal balance to suit your composition.
- Chorus: Add depth and movement to the Xun sound.
- Ping-Pong Delay: Introduce spatial effects with delay that bounces between the left and right stereo channels.
These effects, combined with the deep expressiveness of the Xun, give you total control over the instrument’s sound.
8. Pattern Library
The Pattern Library in Tear of Land is designed to make it easier for you to manage and build compositions. It includes a collection of rich preset patterns, which can be updated in the future, as well as the ability to create your own patterns. By dragging MIDI clips into the software, you can create and organize your musical ideas effortlessly.
9. Preset Library
The instrument comes with a variety of presets, ranging from traditional sounds to experimental effects, giving you a wide range of tonal possibilities to explore in your compositions.
