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Terracotta
Terracotta pots tonal-percussion instrument
Bell-like tones from old handmade Victorian pots and smooth modern ceramics: Terracotta is a uniquely organic tonal-percussion instrument that brings tangible earthiness to cinematic scores and rhythmic compositions. Perfect for adding alive, characterful detail to arpeggios, melodic lines, and atmospheric percussion — whether playing it straight or exploring textural territory with the included creative presets.
£16.00 GBP
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Bell-like terracotta tones across the keyboard
25 carefully sampled pots from Victorian to modern, each with 4 round robins and 4 velocity layers for natural, alive performances.
Blend in unexpected tonal colours
Mix in a resonating ceramic bowl, music box and plucked steel string, plus 40 presets from straightforward percussion to creative textural explorations.
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Hear Terracotta in Action
Clouds — Sam Windell
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Glacial Stone — Sam Windell
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Terracotta Army — Sam Windell
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TerraToccata — Bach
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Diverse sources, cohesive sound
The 25 pots are diverse in size and structure; some are old handmade Victorian pieces while others are smooth and modern. The bell-like tone is consistent but there are intricate differences between them that, when combined, create a beautifully diverse instrument. Each pot was sampled with 4 round robins and 4 velocity layers, capturing natural performance variation across the full keyboard.
Blend and explore
You can blend in 'mixer' sounds to create new tones — a resonating large ceramic bowl, a music box and a plucked steel string. The 40 included presets range from straightforward percussion to creative textural explorations that push the instrument beyond its acoustic origins.
Videos
Note: This video shows Mirage, now succeeded by Floe. All features shown are available in Floe with full compatibility.
Terracotta 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.
Terracotta 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.
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Granular synthesis
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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.
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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: 57.7 MB
Help and support
Crossgrades
Own Terracotta: Kontakt? You may be eligible for a crossgrade discount.
Contents
Full preset list 40 presets
40 presets (complete production-ready patches) in Terracotta Factory Presets (v1.2).
Pads 13 presets
- Chaotic Distort
- Gleaming Cavern
- Other Worlds 1
- Other Worlds 2
- Reverse Texture 1
- Reverse Texture 2
- Silk Glass 1
- Silk Glass 2
- Smooth Pad
- String Pulser
- Terracotta Reverse 1
- Terracotta Reverse 2
- Tonal Pad
Tonal Percussion 27 presets
- Bassy Terra
- Bell
- Celeste
- Degraded
- Detune
- Punchy
- Response
- Sharp Bounce 1
- Sharp Bounce 2
- Sharp Bounce 3
- Softer 1
- Softer 2
- Softest Bass
- Sombre Moment
- Sweet Box
- Terracotta
- Terracotta Rounder 1
- Terracotta Rounder 2
- Terracotta Rounder 3
- Terracotta Sustain 1
- Terracotta Sustain 2
- Velocity Morph - Terra-Celeste
- Velocity Morph - Terra-MB
- Velocity Morph - Terra-Reso
- Wooden Hit
- Xylophone 1
- Xylophone 2
Full instrument list 6 instruments
6 instruments (sound-sources loadable into each of Floe's layers) in Terracotta (v1.2).
Mixers 5 instruments
- Music Box
- Resonation
- Steel String
- String Pad
- Terracotta Celeste
All preset tags 21 tags
Every tag used on the presets, with how many presets have it
Sources 4
acoustic
27
solo
27
tonal percussion
27
hybrid
13
Sound types 2
pad
13
keys
2
Moods & genres 7
ambient
8
ethereal
7
cinematic
5
sci-fi
2
industrial
1
mysterious
1
aggressive
1
Timbres 8
glassy
4
evolving
3
pulsing
2
lush
1
distorted
1
smooth
1
strings-like
1
warm
1
All instrument tags 11 tags
Every tag used on the instruments, with how many instruments have it
Sources 7
tonal percussion
4
hybrid
3
solo
3
acoustic
3
strings
1
synthesized
1
plucked strings
1
Sound types 2
keys
1
pad
1
Moods & genres 2
folk (genre)
1
world
1
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