Scenic Vibrations
Picturesque tonal resonations synth
Alive with evolving kinetic energy, Scenic Vibrations has a unique sound that is perfect for cinematic and atmospheric sound design. Create tension for drama, ambience in an emotional passage and even evoke dread in a horror setting. This customisable tool is based on a set of unique ‘sustain’ recordings by sound design veteran, Si Begg. Materials such as sheets of metal, koto strings, bass guitar strings and suspended steel frames were made to resonate with a surface transducer. The sound is something beautifully organic yet unfamiliar.
Included are over 100 presets featuring intriguing tonal keys, dark pads, basses and pulsing rhythms. Scenic Vibrations runs inside Floe, which provides a flexible 3-layer structure for blending sounds together. Each layer features LFOs, filters, volume envelopes, loop controls and more, while the master level includes a complete rack of effects.
Unique Scenic Sounds
An Organic Synth
The sound of Scenic Vibrations is primarily organic in nature – with intriguing harmonics and natural swells of intensity. But at the same time, it is not wholly familiar to the ear. This dual-character makes Scenic Vibrations fit well with both your synthetic sound design and real instrumentation.
As well as a companion synth, Scenic Vibrations can take the lead too. Melodic lines played with Scenic Vibrations are ear-catching and thoroughly unique sounding.
Surface Transducer
The 30 instruments that make up Scenic Vibrations are created from a set of recordings of metal objects resonating with a surface transducer. Objects such as sheets of metal, koto strings, bass guitar strings and suspended steel frames were used. A surface transducer is a small electronic device that can be placed onto any resonant surface. When a signal is sent to the device, it causes the surface to audibly vibrate and resonate; in essence, turning the object into a speaker. Each sample is roughly 20 seconds long and has been tuned and made into a seamless loop.
Customisable Sound Design
It is easy to create custom sounds or edit presets with Scenic Vibrations. Floe, the engine that powers it, features a three-layer core. On each layer, you can load up one of the 30 instruments and control its volume envelope, EQ, LFO, pitch and much more. By blending together multiple sounds, you can create new timbres. And with the ‘randomise all instruments’ button, you can quickly trial a whole new set of instruments and see what fits in your track.
Sound Design by Si Begg, utilising two decades of experience
Si Begg has been working in the music industry for over two decades. His work recently has been in part on wide-ranging scores for film, TV and trailers, including Netflix show Lovesick. His technical skill and ear for usable sound design shine through in Scenic Vibrations. The sampling, editing and lots of the presets are made by him. Scenic Vibrations already plays a part in his professional work.
Over 100 presets
Scenic Vibrations comes with everything you need for adding production-ready sounds to your track. Just use the preset browser to try some of the included 107 factory presets which were designed my Si Begg and Sam Windell. There are many types of sounds among these. Including suspenseful keys, dark ambiences, fluttering pads and droning bass-pads. Once you find the sound you like, it is possible to further customise it with the engine’s easy-to-use interface.
Hear Scenic Vibrations in Action
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3 independent layers for blending
Unified browsing across all Floe libraries
Effects rack of 10 effects
Powered by Floe
Scenic Vibrations 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.
Mood-board
Our visual interpretation of Scenic Vibrations’s sound
What’s Included
Here's what's included in Scenic Vibrations. You'll receive a Floe package. The installed size is similar to the ZIP size due to our use of modern lossless compression.
FrozenPlain - Scenic Vibrations.zip (65.8 MB)
Scenic Vibrations
Mirage-format sample library containing 44 instruments. Mirage-format sample libraries do not have tags in Floe.
Basic (8)
Clean Waveform
Raw Static Waveform
Sustained Tone
Transducer Sine
Static Harmonics
Transducer Sawtooth
Consistent Clean Vibration
Unbroken Resonance
Core (15)
Two Tone Hum
Piercing High Drone
Static Dual Tone
Deep Tone
Metallic Flutter
Imperfect Metal
Serene Transducer
Fluttering Oscillation
Pulsating Highs 2
Gentle Flutter
Swelling Tones 2
Hypnotic Resonator
Pulsating Highs 1
Swelling Tones 1
Unwavering Oscillation
Dark (12)
Multi Resonator
Monotonous Dissonance
Escalating Tone
Discordant Vibrations
Fabricated Hum
Unmelodic Hum
Scraping Oscillation
Faltering Resonations
Dim Noise
Moving Tones
Dark Jittering Drone
Metallic Murmur
Processed (9)
Woody Waveform
Warped Transmitter
Amped Transducer
Wide Sawtooth
Discordant Drone
Damaged Noise
Crushed Murmur
Chirping Sines
Droning Voices
Presets (107)
Preset files for Floe.
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/SFX (12)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Keys (21)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Pads (20)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Basses (2)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Pulsers (20)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Textures (14)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Atmospheres (4)
Scenic Vibrations/Factory/Dark Ambience (14)
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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