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Isolated Signals
Gritty digital textures synth
Themed around intercepted radio signals from deep space, Isolated Signals delivers gritty, undulating tonal textures that evoke extraterrestrial civilisations, cosmic phenomena and retrofuturism. Designed by Beautiful Void Audio using resonant filtering to extract tonal peaks from noise — ideal for sci-fi soundtracks, dark ambient productions, and otherworldly sound design.
£25.00 GBP
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197 gritty loopable samples
Created with resonant filtering across 3 synthesis layers — categorised as Distorted, Low-passed, Movement, Rhythmic Movement and Tonal Focus.
211 presets, sci-fi to dark ambient
Organised by character (Hostile, Benevolent, Heavenly) and timbre (Fluctuating, Broken, Corrupt) — built for scores, dark ambient music and retrofuturistic sound design.
Powered by Floe
Our free plugin for expressive performance — simple yet highly customisable with layers, FX, granular and more (CLAP/VST3/AU).
Create your own textures, pads and keys
Sound design expert, Erick (Beautiful Void Audio), designed Isolated Signals' samples using a wide range of synthesis techniques and processing chains. In particular, he used resonating filters to pull out tonal peaks from sounds that previously didn't have them. The result is unique: the tones are dynamic, spontaneous and gritty. Each of these samples are playable sounds by using an intuitive set of looping controls in the engine. These are categorised into the following types: Distorted, Low-passed, Movement, Rhythmic Movement, Tonal Focus. They can be loaded into any of the engine's 3 layers, where they can be further controlled and processed.
Over 200 categorised and themed presets
Isolated Signals comes with 211 presets. These are categorised in-line with our theme: ‘radio signals from deep space’. You can imagine you are an operator at a radio astronomy observatory. What are the characteristics of the signals that you are receiving from space? Where might they originate from? And how might that be represented sonically or musically? In the preset categories, we use words such as: Hostile, Benevolent, Heavenly to suggest the emotion of the preset. And words such as Fluctuating, Broken, Corrupt or Impulse-hit suggest the timbral characteristic of the preset.
Hear Isolated Signals in Action
The Coming Flood — Erick McNerney
0:00 2:37
Signaling An Ending — Erick McNerney
0:00 2:11
Strange Spiraling Portals — Erick McNerney
0:00 1:15
Fanfare Lament — Erick McNerney
0:00 1:48
Videos
Note: This video shows Mirage, now succeeded by Floe. All features shown are available in Floe with full compatibility.
Isolated Signals plays in Floe, our free plugin for Windows, macOS and Linux. It's where your library lives, on its own or alongside any others of ours: a preset browser, three layers for blending instruments into a single sound, and filters, envelopes and a rack of effects to shape them with.
Isolated Signals belongs to our Originals Series. It was first made for Mirage, Floe's predecessor, but is now fully at home in Floe: every instrument is tagged and ready for all of Floe's features, arpeggiators and granular synthesis included. Its factory presets are the original bank, made before Floe's newer features existed, so they're yours to take further.
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Details
Requirements
Runs inside Floe v2 or later, the free plugin
- Windows 10 or later
- macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon or Intel)
- Linux (x86, glibc 2.31 or later)
- 64-bit DAW
Plugin formats
CLAP and VST3, plus AU on macOS.
Works in Cubase, Logic Pro, Studio One, Ableton Live, Reaper, Bitwig, FL Studio, Ardour, and more.
Library
- Floe format, fully tagged and integrated in Floe
- Download size: 619.9 MB
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Contents
Full preset list 211 presets
211 presets (complete production-ready patches) in Isolated Signals Factory Presets (v1.2).
Fluctuating - Benevolent 8 presets
- Abstract Pulses
- Beeping Delays
- Call And Response Pad
- Cycling Strings
- Inviting Pulse
- Strange Birds
- The Evolving Dystopia
- Untethered Swells
Fluctuating - Corrupt 11 presets
- Bones Resonator
- Chaotic Movement
- Distortia
- Electrical Soup
- Faulty Systems
- Psycho Helicopter
- Rusty Sequence
- The Blazar I
- The Blazar II
- The Odd Bits
- Unsettling Persuasion
Fluctuating - Hostile 24 presets
- Abandoned Tech
- Acidic Rain
- Agony Machine
- AI Machine Dance I
- AI Machine Dance II
- AI Machine Dance III
- AI Machine Dance IV
- Banishing Souls
- Crazy Heli
- Evasion
- Extradimensional Door
- From The Depths
- Hostile Civilisation
- Illusory Marking
- Machine Cogitation
- Sirens And Signals
- Spaceship Warning System
- Spiralling Deadwind
- Starboard Malfunction
- Telephonic Futures
- Terra Fallout
- The Noisy Life
- Unclear Shimmer
- Vague Unease
Impulse Hits 36 presets
- Bright Keys
- Clown Tears
- Creeky Wooden Game
- Dampened Piano Kick Drum
- Dark Fathom
- Dark Stab
- Digital Impact
- Dirty
- Dramatic Fissure
- Everything Is On Fire
- Funny Business
- Lofi Kick
- Mallet Key I
- Mallet Key II
- Mallet Key III
- Mecha-brass
- Moody Wind Pluck
- Moving Stutter
- Mythical Pluck
- Noise Bursts
- Off Keys
- Percussive Pluck
- Pitchy Beep
- Rattled Pluck
- Resonant Bass Plucks
- Simple Kick Drum
- Solid Kick-Like Foundation
- Space Kick
- Strange Steel Keys
- Tear Drops
- The Delusion
- Thin Devices
- Tuned Percussion
- Unconventional Steel Drum
- Vintage Dust Fairies
- Vintage TV Drama Stinger
Signal - Benevolent 57 presets
- Burnt Redwood
- Busy In Deep Thought
- Caught In The Mire
- Cerebral Cortex
- Controlled Burn
- Dire Situation
- Dream Chord I
- Dream Chord II
- Extrasolar Ships
- Flittering Dusk
- Geometric Signal
- Glory Flame
- Huge Landforms
- Humankind
- In a Daze
- Light Sail
- Liquid Fog
- Morning Tone
- Moving Through A Place
- Muffled Monition
- Murcurian Vista
- Nightfall
- No Stone Left Unturned
- Noisy Salutations
- Oddly Beautiful
- On The Fringes
- Peaceful Lights
- Peculiar Agitations
- Phasing Lazing
- Pie In The Sky
- Polar Texture
- Red Skies
- Rose-coloured
- Saturnian Vista
- Shimmering Dream
- Slipping Mind
- Some Dreams Aren't Real
- Starship Ballad
- Static Rebirth
- Statis
- Stellar Cloud
- Strange Organic Machinery
- Strange Paths
- Super Massive
- The Cosmic Orchestra
- The Shady Passage
- Thin Air
- Too Dense For Flying
- Triangle of Signals
- Twilight
- Uncertain Futures
- Uncertain Paths
- Vinyl Awakening
- Wavering (mono)
- Waves Of Emotion
- Windward Sign
- World Roots
Signal - Broken 7 presets
- Eternal Glitch
- Glitch Machinery
- Lofi Machinations
- Manic (mono)
- Misaligned Sensor
- Uncontained Gamma Rays
- Underneath The Chainsaw
Signal - Heavenly 21 presets
- A Passing Moment
- A Strange Descent
- Beautiful Starlight
- Blue Jewel
- Brooding Sunset
- Coming To Some Place
- Cosmic Atmosphere
- Jupiterian Vista
- Level-headed
- Lonely In Space
- Mountaintop Antenna
- Neptunian Vista
- Non-terrestrial Wonder
- Resonator Organ
- Sight Above
- Slowly Moving Onward
- Solemn Drone
- Spacey Brass
- The Fallen I
- The Fallen II
- Willows
Signal - Hostile 34 presets
- Alpha Sectors
- Black Nova
- Cell Entropy
- Control Drifter
- Crackling Distress
- Cryogenic Clamour
- Cyborg City
- Dark Machine
- Dark Whistlers
- Darkscape Complex
- Dirty Vintage Tropes
- Dormant
- Error Metal Harmonics
- Exo-surface
- Extrasolar Vehemence
- Harsh Realities
- In the Wake of Poseidon
- Lost In The Underworld
- Lower Orbit
- Malign Experiment
- Mesmerism
- Neuromagnetic
- Peculiar Refutations
- Piercing Circuit
- Piercing Discord (mono)
- Psychedelic Nightmare
- Stellar Dawn Chorus
- The Deadline
- Through Dreamy Eyes
- Unsafe Asylum
- Unsettle The Foundation
- Vault
- Venerian Vista
- Xenomorphic
Signal - Overloaded 13 presets
- Alien Conjuration
- Dark Afternoons
- Darkstar Beam
- Darkweb Manifestation
- Deep Illumination
- Distorted Wisdom
- Irregular Oscillations (mono)
- Lofi Sadness
- Martian Terror
- Overloaded Transmitter
- Quasar
- The Comets Path (mono)
- The Darkened Sky
Full instrument list 195 instruments
195 instruments (sound-sources loadable into each of Floe's layers) in Isolated Signals (v1.2).
Distorted 47 instruments
- Agitation
- All Of Nothing
- Ancient Synth
- Angular Momentum
- Biting Refuse
- Bitter Pill
- Blown Away
- Brief Visions 1
- Brief Visions 2
- Broken Down
- Central Local 1
- Coming Into Alignment
- Crisp Dirt
- Cry Into The Wind
- Dark Doom 1
- Dark Doom 2
- Dark Feathers
- Deep Spite
- Dirty Weather
- Effortless Sides
- Explosions In The Sky
- Fusion Is Cheap
- Give Lift
- Grungy
- Harmonic Wishes
- Heavy Rain Passes
- If I Were
- Imagination Fades
- Irritants
- Issues
- No Excuses
- Not Playing
- Numb Engines
- Oh My
- Pressurized 1
- Pressurized 2
- Reactionary Measures
- Rise Away 3
- Saving Grace
- Scapegoat
- Shadow Flag
- Shady Future
- Sideways Soldier
- Ugly Synth
- Undue Stress
- Undying War
- Unthinkable
Low-passed 15 instruments
- Age Of Disregard
- Book Of Spooks
- Brooding Doom 1
- Doom and Gloom 1
- Doom Boom 1
- Fumbling
- Ghosts In Deep Space
- Gum The Works
- Into The Distance
- Phases And Gazes
- Raise Your Guard
- Sideways Wonder
- Speaking Resonance
- Swooping In
- Uneasy Lives
Movement 69 instruments
- A Rising Feeling
- All About Nothing
- Angry Over Nothing
- Angry Plugin
- Beating The Ears
- Bings and Bongs
- Boomerang Laser
- Breaking Norms
- Brooding Doom 2
- Bubble Trouble
- Bumpers
- Calling Collect
- Cryogenic Existence
- Cumbersome
- Death Spiral
- Distal Electric
- Doom and Gloom 3
- Doom and Gloom 4
- Doom and Gloom 5
- Doom Boom 2
- Drain The Streams
- Drop In The Bucket
- Drowned Out
- Electrified Current
- Elevation
- End Over End
- Evening Devils
- Extreme Stalker
- Fall Away 1
- Fall Away 2
- Fall Away 3
- Fall Away 4
- Feeling Lost
- Firm Soft Edges 2
- Iffy
- Imagine A Future
- Incoming 1
- Incoming 2
- Ingrained
- Insane Weeping 1
- Insane Weeping 2
- Lamia Signal
- Lonely Ghost In Space
- Lost Soldier
- Lowly Leather
- Making Things Up
- Message To Deckard
- Miscommunications 1
- Noisy Happenings
- Odd Spectrals
- Quick Escape
- Relaxing Edge
- Rise Away 1
- Rise Away 2
- Starships
- Start Over
- Strange Movements
- Strange Thoughts Arise
- The Start Of Something
- Unimaginable
- Unimagination
- Unpleasant Outing
- Unsure When
- Up And Out
- Upsetting Tangent
- Utter Shock
- Wailing Inside
- Wild And Wiggly
- Windy Devil 1
Rhythmic Movement 35 instruments
- A Sinking Feeling
- A Tad Extreme
- Alien Cyborg
- All Your Fears
- Axes Broken
- Beam Of Light 1
- Begging To End
- Bibble
- Chain Reactions 1
- Chain Reactions 2
- Circular Senses
- Crickets Ballad
- Doom and Gloom 2
- Down And Out
- Electric Fences
- Emblem
- Emblems 1
- Emblems 2
- Emblems 3
- Emblems 5
- Envisions
- Extra Credit
- Fissured Engine
- Kitchens And Basketballs
- Lurkers
- Miscommunications 2
- Peculiar Intuitions
- Rising Tides
- Signals In Space
- Strange Movements 2
- Stutter Flutter
- Subtle Jive
- Unforgiving Hum
- Windy Devil 2
- Windy Devil 3
Tonal Focus 29 instruments
- Beam Of Light 2
- Beam Of Light 3
- Closed Window
- Common Thread
- Copper Wires
- Daydream Nation
- Emblems 6
- Epic Entrance
- Etching
- Extreme Quicken
- Firm Soft Edges
- Fizzy
- Follow Away
- Hollow Evil
- Humming Along
- Isolated Signal 1
- Isolated Signal 2
- Isolated Signal 3
- Only Siren
- Ordered Chaos
- Outer Parts
- Stormy Deal
- Strange Siren
- Subdued Interest
- Sunlight Radiant
- Underlying Stranger
- Uninterested
- Unnerving Whim
- Whisper And Soothe
All preset tags 78 tags
Every tag used on the presets, with how many presets have it
Sources 1
synthesized
211
Sound types 13
texture
137
pad
80
drone
63
underscore
35
hit
24
soundscape
11
pluck
7
noise
7
bass 6sound fx 5stab 2keys 2oneshot 1
Moods & genres 30
cinematic
105
ambient
94
industrial
69
dark
53
sci-fi
53
ethereal
42
aggressive
40
peaceful
28
dreamy 24dystopian 21electronic 13mysterious 12menacing 12bright 10subdued 8eerie 6tense 6chaotic 3dramatic 2hypnotic 2nostalgic 2experimental 2quirky 2glitch 2playful 1melancholic 1fantasy 1disturbing 1horror 1world 1
Timbres 34
distorted
62
pulsing
43
harsh
38
airy
36
evolving
35
fluctuating
32
warm
29
metallic
28
percussive 28gritty 20glassy 19dissonant 14resonant 14digital 11lush 11glitched 11smooth 8lo-fi 6non-pitched 4multi-pitched 4breathy 4saturated 4muffled 4grainy 3noisy 3pure 3thin 2brassy 2nasal 1organ-like 1strings-like 1choir-like 1rumbly 1whining 1
All instrument tags 42 tags
Every tag used on the instruments, with how many instruments have it
Sources 2
hybrid
195
synthesized
195
Sound types 1
texture
195
Moods & genres 11
dark
54
sci-fi
51
dystopian
18
aggressive
16
tense
10
eerie
7
ethereal
2
menacing
1
bright 1subdued 1hypnotic 1
Timbres 28
gritty
96
distorted
71
fluctuating
66
harsh
60
digital
57
pulsing
47
evolving
33
metallic
19
resonant 15muffled 10ringing 9dissonant 8glassy 7rumbly 6grainy 4noisy 4airy 4glitched 4pure 3cold 2hissing 2non-pitched 2whining 2multi-pitched 1breathy 1saturated 1thin 1lo-fi 1
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Isolated Signals
£25.00 GBP
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