Arctic Strings
Smooth sustained strings
Designed for creating lush, ethereal backdrops and chords: Arctic Strings is a sustained strings instrument that’s housed in our powerful sample-based-synth engine, Floe. The whole string section was recorded playing long sustained notes both softly and loudly; we turned this into a single, uncomplicated virtual instrument with controllable dynamics. This product is the dead-simple solution for adding warm, delicate, atmospheric, backdrops to your track; either by itself or alongside other string libraries.
Create moving string chords
Arctic Strings has a beautiful shimmering tone with ethereal high strings and powerful basses; perfect for playing chords and harmonies. Create swells of intensity and emotion using the dynamics knob, which blends the sound between real recordings of the strings playing softly, and playing loudly. As well as this, this instrument’s sound fits excellently with both synths and real instrumentation. This means Arctic Strings works well in anything from emotional cinematic scores to background elements in an electronic track.
The samples are wide and lush stereo recordings from a medium-sized string ensemble recorded in a church. It is not a deep-sampled and technical concert hall type library, instead, this library excels at strings for ambience and atmosphere. They are incredibly easy to use and fill that gap between detailed realism and smooth, rich pads.
A single easy-to-use articulation
The string section very commonly plays large chords or is used to add additional texture to other more prominent instruments. This is where Arctic Strings excels: the entire realistic-sounding string section is available at your fingertips – from basses to violins. The attack and release can be controlled like a synth, and you can even set the instrument to play monophonically, allowing for a legato-like playing style.42 presets
With the engine, you can take the sound beyond the realms of realism and create organic-synth instruments. You'll find examples of this in the 42 included presets. These are arranged into 3 categories: Realistic, Realistic Processed and Sound Design. In the Realistic folder you'll find patches for emulating real strings: wide chords, monophonic and octave harmony patches. The Realistic Processed folder explores the boundary between realistic and synthetic. Including washed-out string reverb instruments and filtered string sounds. The final category, Sound Design, contains synth-like presets that make full use of the engine's features: synth plucks, distorted leads and drifting detune.
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3 independent layers for blending
Unified browsing across all Floe libraries
Effects rack of 10 effects
Powered by Floe
Arctic Strings runs inside Floe, FrozenPlain’s free, open-source sample library player and the direct successor to the Mirage engine.
Key features:
- 3-layer engine, each layer can host any sound source
- Full sound-shaping tools (volume, pitch, panning, ADSR, LFOs, filters, EQ…)
- 4 macro controls—each can modulate up to 6 parameters
- Rack of 10 customisable effects (delay, algorithmic reverb, convolution reverb, stereo processor, chorus, filter, distortion, compressor, bitcrusher, phaser)
- Keyboard splitting with zone layering options
- Full MIDI automation support
- Unified preset/tag system across all FrozenPlain libraries
Floe requires either a Windows or macOS computer with music production software that can run a CLAP, VST3, or AU audio plugin (such as: Logic Pro, Reaper, Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Studio One, Reason, and many more). See Floe's requirements page for additional details.
What’s Included
Here's what's included in Arctic Strings. You'll receive a Floe package. The installed size is similar to the ZIP size due to our use of modern lossless compression.
FrozenPlain - Arctic Strings.zip (237.1 MB)
Arctic Strings
Mirage-format sample library containing 1 instrument. Mirage-format sample libraries do not have tags in Floe.
Strings
Presets (41)
Preset files for Floe.
Arctic Strings/Factory/Realistic (11)
Arctic Strings/Factory/Sound Design (13)
Arctic Strings/Factory/Realistic Processed (17)
Crossgrade from Arctic Strings: Kontakt
If you purchased/redeemed Arctic Strings: Kontakt before 11/28/2024, you can get 50% off this product. See our Crossgrades page for how to do this.
The Floe version of Arctic Strings makes the string samples accessible to users without Kontakt. While it omits certain features (scripted legato/portamento, mod matrix, chord harmonizer, and themed GUI), it adds 42 new presets for more sound design applications: it leans into being a creative sound-design tool more than trying for realism like the Kontakt version was. Being part of the Floe platform means it will receive ongoing free updates and improvements.
About FrozenPlain
Founded in 2013 in southern England by Sam Windell, FrozenPlain began as a passion project, creating cinematic Kontakt libraries from his bedroom studio. The mission has always been to provide creative tools for musicians, composers, and producers working in film, TV, and games.
Over a decade later, Sam works with professional sound designers, audio engineers, and composers from the film and gaming industries, plus other specialists who help shape each library.
The brand’s philosophy is simple: make music creation accessible and inspiring. That means:
- Fair, year-round pricing (no endless sales gimmicks)
- No DRM, no dongles, no serial keys just download and start creating
- Simple, intuitive virtual instruments that put creativity first
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