Overview

The Authentic Sound of Acoustic Guitar
WEDGE FORCE Oolong is an innovative musical instrument that recreates the sound of a professionally recorded acoustic guitar allowing keyboard players to play realistic and expressive guitar parts.

Multi-Signal Mixing Console
WEDGE FORCE Oolong outputs a clean acoustic guitar DI signal ready to be re-amped with effects. In addition, it outputs a Studio-MIC and an Ambient-MIC signals which were recorded in a professional studio using the Blumlein pair technique. You have full control over how to mix the three signals to achieve the right tone for your song.

Extra Expression
Because Oolong tone is synthesized (not sampled) it gives you control over where to pluck the strings. You can change your plucking position (in real-time) by moving the MOD wheel controller on your MIDI keyboard. Playing closer to the bridge will add an extra bright accent to your tone, like on a real guitar. Another way to differentiate your expression is by controlling the string damping force from fully open to heavily muted strings and everything in between. You can map the string-damping setting to a controller on your MIDI keyboard and change it while you play live.

Extra Range

Oolong is capable of synthesizing notes up to two octaves below the guitar neck all the way into the bass range. They all sound natural because they are synthesized from the same acoustic guitar timbre. This gives you an extra range to compose and play parts which are inaccessible on the guitar.

Better than sampled guitar

Ordinary sampled guitar synths have never quite sounded realistic because the harmonic resonances of the guitar strings are different for each quick combination of notes. This is why WEDGE FORCE built their proprietary “Synthetic Force Engine III”. It extracts the timbre from studio sampled waveforms and then synthesizes each note in real time, using algorithms which are carefully designed to preserve the original waveform timbre.

Studio Quality Effects

So many legendary guitar lines in history have been recorded at the studio with nothing but a mic and an acoustic guitar. Oolong gives impressively massive results right out of the box, with just a touch of an EQ. If you are after a more modern tone you can craft it using the onboard Delay and Flanger effects. Oolong also features a custom-built multi-band compressor which is designed to preserve it’s bright high-end frequencies.

Surround Sound
You can play Oolong on a stereo or mono track but you could also add an extra dimension (5.1, 7.1 up to 7.1.2 channels) to your movie or game soundtracks just by placing Oolong on a multi-channel track in your DAW. It will automatically output the surround channels and will optimize the Delay and Flanger effects to add a spatial atmosphere to your tone.

Fast enough for live performance, easy on the CPU

WEDGE FORCE Oolong’s sound engine has been optimized for performance up to the last CPU cycle to free up resources for the effects and other synths which may be running alongside it. Using 64bit double precision for the internal calculations, the latency of WEDGE FORCE software instruments is close to zero, less than 1 millisecond, so it feels and responds just like a real instrument should.

Features

  • Multi-Signal Output (DI, MIC-Studio, MIC-Ambient)
  • Playing Style Control (fingers, pick, thump pick)
  • Plucking Position Control (from neck to bridge, control with MOD wheel)
  • Strumming Note Offset (controls the strumming speed)
  • Attack Control (cutting the attack makes the tone warmer)
  • Gradual String Damping (from open to fully muted)
  • AI for predicting the picking direction and the plucking finger
  • Play notes up to two octaves below the guitar neck
  • Neck fretting positions (on each individual string)
  • Surround Onboard Effects (delay, flanger)
  • Onboard Compressor (designed to preserve the high-end band)
  • Pitch Bending (with advanced note bending control)
  • Note Detune (randomized detune for realism)
  • Note sliding over the neck
  • Note Release control
  • MIDI CC parameters mapping to the MIDI keyboard controllers
  • Velocity Mapping
  • Fine Tuning
  • Onboard Audition Player (with 12 demo songs)

Audio Examples

Industry Reviews

  • Rami Jaffee

    Rami Jaffee

    Keyboarder (Foo Fighters, Wallflowers, Stone Sour)

    Oolong is amazingly versatile as it is user friendly. The bells and whistles in the plugin are to the point and doesn’t bother with useless excess.

    Aside from being a guitar replacement,… Read More

Customer Reviews

  • Efficiency

    ★★★★★
    by Khalil Singh
    Absolutely amazing, easy to use, simple to navigate.
    Highly recommend it.
  • Oolong

    ★★★★★
    by Doc
    Whatever PA brings out its really usefull !

Specifications

Supported Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, VST3

Supported Operating Systems
macOS 14 down to macOS 11
Windows 11 down to Windows 10

Mac
Intel or Apple Silicon architecture

PC
x64-compatible CPU

System Requirements
Display resolution: 1440 × 900px or 1280 × 960px or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM

 

 

Downloads

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ChangeLog

Oolong

WEDGE FORCE Oolong - Changelog

Version 1.1.2 (Sep 22, 2023)
- Sample data is now correctly downloaded inside Logic on Apple Silicon Macs
- Download progress is shown in %
- Cancel download button is added

Version 1.0.9 (Mar 24, 2023)
- Fixed the open standalone app links on windows.
- Miscellaneous bug fixing.

Version 1.0.8 (Mar 19, 2023)
- Fixed corner cases around data downloads at startup.
- Added presets for VST3 in Cubase.

Version 1.0.7 (Feb 26, 2023)
- At plugin startup Oolong is downloading the sample data files (if not present)
- Added support for Mixcraft DAW container

Version 1.0.6 (Dec 02, 2022)
- Added support for Steinberg DORICO container

Version 1.0.5 (Oct 31, 2022)
- (new) Picking Position can be controlled with the MOD wheel in real time.
- (new) Strumming Note Offset feature. When a chord is played on the MIDI Keyboard, Oolong automatically offsets the notes to mimic the guitar strumming technique. Offset is configurable from 0 to 100ms.
- Improved UI Fonts

Version 1.0.4 (Sep 13, 2021)
- Release version