Zoot Link

Zoot Link is the companion app for Zoot™, the simple electronic wind instrument that unleashes your inner virtuoso. The app includes a high quality, physically modeled virtual clarinet which also accepts MIDI input from other controllers.

Zoot is highly expressive yet easy to play. Whether you are playing the built-in clarinet or other virtual instruments like saxophone, trumpet, or violin via the app’s MIDI output, Zoot responds to the subtleties of breath and articulation for the control of dynamics and timbre, to finger positions for selecting the pitch, to motion gestures for vibrato and other effects, and to finger proximity for pitch bends.

The essential range of Zoot Link’s clarinet, where the timbre is most realistic, is from C3 to A#6. However, the instrument will respond from C1 (3 octaves below Middle C) to C8 (4 octaves above Middle C). The clarinet works best when paired with the Zoot hardware, which connects to your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook via Bluetooth, but you can also play it using any MIDI controller that produces a continuous breath value.

Since Zoot uses standard recorder fingering by default, recorder players can simply pick up the instrument and play. If you’re new to wind instruments, try Zoot’s easy-to-learn simplified fingering system. Or choose whatever fingering system you’re already familiar with — you can even invent your own. Zoot is for everyone who wants to have fun expressing themselves musically!

App Features:

• Compatible with iPhones and iPads
• High quality physically modeled clarinet synthesizer
• Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity for Zoot sensor data
• Selectable fingering system, including standard recorder
• Touch display to show finger positions
• Motion gestures for vibrato, tremolo, octave control, and more
• Finger-controlled pitch bends
• Multiple options for easily setting base pitch and transposition of instrument
• Chord strummer using motion gestures only
• Named presets for saving and restoring all app controls
• MIDI output to control other virtual instruments and synths
• MIDI input to play Zoot’s virtual clarinet using a different controller
• Built-in fingering reference
• Live graphs of breath pressure and pitch bend
• Sip (suction) sensor for triggering user-defined actions
• Sine wave synthesizer with adjustable skew
• Proximity and Tilt modes for theremin-like effects
• Graphical breath mapping curve for customized control

For much more information, including video demos and user guides, please go to https://www.playzoot.com/.