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Per-layer arpeggiators
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Phoenix
Smooth synth strings and choirs
Smooth synthetic strings and ethereal choirs for atmospheric backdrops and emotive soundscapes. Phoenix features six carefully crafted synth instruments that excel at creating pads and textures — or explore beyond: keys, basses, leads, and sound effects.
£16.00 GBP
Personal License
80 presets across five categories
Pads, keys, basses, leads and effects — ideal for ambient textures, underscore, or layering with real instrumentation.
Deep sound-shaping under the hood
Six oscillators with three-layer audio processing, envelopes, LFOs, filters and effects.
Powered by Floe
Our free plugin for expressive performance — simple yet highly customisable with layers, FX, granular and more (CLAP/VST3/AU).
Fair year-round pricing
We don’t run sales — buy whenever the tool is right for you.
Smooth synth strings and choirs
Phoenix's six synthetic strings and choirs (Strings, Shadow, Mist, Ghost, Cloud and Choir) provide instant ethereal pads and rich textures. The three-layer engine lets you layer tones, add modulation with LFOs and filters, and apply reverb — creating soundscapes with movement and depth that extend well beyond simple pads.
80 Presets
Phoenix includes 80 production-ready presets across five categories: pads, keys, basses, leads, and sound effects. From low rumbles and plucky staccatos to clean subs, these presets layer beautifully with real instruments, adding smoothness, richness and width.
Hear Phoenix in Action
Demo — Jakub Gawlina
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Nebula (Only Phoenix) — Sam Windell
0:00 3:55
Nebula — Sam Windell
0:00 3:55
Patched Stars (Only Phoenix) — Sam Windell
0:00 0:30
Phoenix Montage — Sam Windell
0:00 1:34
Solaris — Sam Windell
0:00 2:27
Sunlight (Only Phoenix) — Sam Windell
0:00 2:18
Wings (Only Phoenix) — Sam Windell
0:00 1:58
Videos
Note: This video shows Mirage, now succeeded by Floe. All features shown are available in Floe with full compatibility.
Phoenix 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.
Phoenix 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.
Floe is free and open source: install it, add your library, and start playing.
New in v2
Granular synthesis
Stretch, freeze and reshape any instrument into evolving clouds and textures — even multisampled instruments.
Pro effects rack
Eleven high-quality, reorderable effects — including pro-standard reverb and delay, and convolution reverb with creative IRs.
Built for the studio
Four macro knobs for expressive performance of multiple parameters. MIDI CC, sustain pedal, undo/redo, A/B comparison for preset edits, visual EQs and a random variation generator.
Free and open source
Floe is a companion project to FrozenPlain — totally free and open source for longevity and ethical service to the music-making community.
Layer across libraries
Blend instruments from any library in a single patch. Floe's three-layer architecture, each with its own controls, allows for creating hybrid textures.
Details
Requirements
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 Reaper, Bitwig, FL Studio, Studio One, Cubase, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, and more.
Library
- Floe format, fully tagged and integrated in Floe
- Download size: 55.8 MB
Help and support
Crossgrades
Own Phoenix: Kontakt? You may be eligible for a crossgrade discount.
Contents
Full preset list 86 presets
86 presets (complete production-ready patches) in Phoenix - Factory Presets (v1.3).
01. Core 6 presets
- Phoenix Choir 1
- Phoenix Choir 2
- Phoenix Pad 1
- Phoenix Pad 2
- Phoenix Pad 3
- Phoenix Strings
02. Pads 48 presets
- BOC Strings
- Cathedral Choir
- Cathedral Choir 2
- Choir Pad
- Convolved Strings
- Convolved Strings 2
- Cosmic Pad
- Fifth Repeater
- Filtered Swell
- Forlorn Swell
- Glacial Pad
- Glassy Swell
- Heavenly Voicepad
- Heavenly Voicepad 2
- Old School Strings
- Phased Strings
- Pluck Repeater
- Retro Detune Strings
- Retro Detune Strings 2
- Retro Detune Strings 3
- Rich Glassy Swell
- Shimmering Cavern
- Shimmering Cavern 2
- Shimmering Cavern 3
- Shimmering Strings
- Sine Pad
- Sine Pad 2
- Smoothest Choir
- Smoothest Choir 2
- Smoothest Pad
- Smoothest Pad 2
- Smoothest Pad 3
- Smoothest Pad 4
- Smoothest Pad 5
- Smoothest Pad 6
- Smoothest Pad 7
- Smoothest Pad 8
- Smoothest Strings
- Smoothest Strings 2
- Smoothest Strings 3
- Smoothest Strings 4
- Smoothest Strings 5
- Smoothest Strings 6
- Space Atmosphere
- String Choir
- Tremolo Swell
- Underwater Shimmer
- Wide Pad
03. Keys 7 presets
- Bouncing Pluck
- Charming Key
- Detune Pluck
- High Pluck
- Melody Drops
- Short Melody Drops
- Warm Key
04. Basses 16 presets
- Bass Pluck
- Bass Pluck Repeater
- Bass Pluck Repeater 2
- Bass Pluck Repeater 3
- Bass Pluck Repeater 4
- Bass Rhythm Repeater
- Bassy Distort Pad
- Dark Bass Repeater
- Low End
- Low End 2
- Retro Sub Bass
- Simple Bass
- Sub Bass Repeater
- Sub Bass Repeater 2
- Sub Bass Repeater 3
- Sub Bass Voice Repeater
05. Leads 4 presets
- Distort Lead Mono
- Distorted High Crackle
- Soft Lead Tone
- Soft Lead Tone Monophonic
06. SFX 5 presets
- Eerie Key
- Scraping Staccato
- Screech SFX
- Screech SFX 2
- Screech SFX 3
Full instrument list 6 instruments
6 instruments (sound-sources loadable into each of Floe's layers) in Phoenix (v1.2).
All preset tags 62 tags
Every tag used on the presets, with how many presets have it
Sources 3
synthesized
86
choir
2
strings
1
Sound types 10
pad
54
bass
16
sequence
8
pluck
7
keys
6
sound fx
5
lead
4
riser
1
arp 1downer 1
Moods & genres 28
ambient
54
cinematic
46
peaceful
31
ethereal
27
dreamy
25
electronic
22
aggressive
10
bright
10
dark 9subdued 9sci-fi 8nostalgic 5synthwave 5techno 5industrial 480s 4downtempo 3playful 3EDM 3chillout 2mysterious 2melancholic 1pop 1eerie 1horror 1hypnotic 1glitch 1tense 1
Timbres 21
warm
45
smooth
35
lush
26
airy
20
strings-like
19
evolving
14
percussive
13
pulsing
13
glassy 13metallic 9choir-like 8resonant 6harsh 6distorted 6gritty 5saturated 3pure 3lo-fi 2cold 1ringing 1noisy 1
All instrument tags 4 tags
Every tag used on the instruments, with how many instruments have it
Sources 3
synthesized
6
strings
4
choir
2
Timbres 1
smooth
6
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