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Wraith

(4 customer reviews)

$59.00 USD (including tax)

A synthesiser for dark textures and expansive pads

Designed for versatile dark ambient and cinematic sound design, Wraith is a synthesiser for pads, drones and synthetic textures. Fill out the background of your production with an expansive pad, or create tension with an atonal drone, or even write a whole underscore sequence using Wraith. This product works inside our sample-based-synthesis VST/AU, Mirage (included free).

Wraith is made up of 230 synthetic instruments combining unsettling textures and drones with tranquil atmospheres. These are arranged into three categories: drones, tonal pads, and textures. This massive collection of instruments range from bleak and dissonant to ethereal and serene. As well as these instruments, any of the 80 included presets can be effortlessly customised using Mirage’s features. With it, you can mix three different layers, apply LFOs, envelopes, filters and a whole rack of effects to create the exact unique sound that you need.

Free demo version (Only 5 Instruments and Presets)

Style Ambient, Cinematic, Dark
Content Pads, Soundscapes, Textures
Format Mirage Library (VST/AU)

Layer together sounds for complex soundscapes and pads

Wraith is designed for layering – combining different sounds within the synthesiser to create new timbres. This can be intuitively done with the engine that powers it, Mirage. Three layers are arranged across the GUI, each containing numerous controls for customising the character of that part.

The three instrument categories of Wraith have been designed to complement each other. This makes building your own sounds easy. Firstly, the drones category primarily features dark and ominous instruments characterised by gritty low-end, rich drones full of depth, granular harmonic content, and sometimes even atonal clusters.

Secondly, the tonal category features primarily harmonic and melodic pads. You again might find sounds with an unsettling edge, but on the whole, you will find pads with entrancing and silky tones. Finally, there is the textures category which contains noise and dissonant instruments. It acts as the glue between the drone and tonal sounds. 

Adding these layers together is where Wraith shines. Rich, complex soundscapes can be created with ease. But likewise, with the use of per-layer EQ, filters and tasteful mixing, subtle and intricate textures are well within Wraiths capabilities too.

80 production-ready presets

Wraith is excellent for finding or creating the perfect unsettling or even alluring pad/drone sound for your production. It makes this easy for you by facilitating easy trialling and customisation of the 80 included presets. These presets can be loaded either entirely randomly, or randomly within a category. The instruments in each preset can also be randomly chosen at the click of a button. This means you can retain the settings and effects of a preset but try completely different source instruments.

Uncharted sound design

Something to be aware of with Wraith is that some of the instruments of Wraith are multi-tonal, meaning a single sound has multiple pitches in one note. This is by design. We have found that this results in an unsettling character that is hard to recreate with monotonal sounds. Such instruments are invaluable for laying down a bed of tense atmosphere from which you can build on top of using more harmonically-precise instrumentation.

Overall, this is an excellent collection of sounds to add to your palette if you’re on the lookout for new and fresh modern cinematic tools capable of taking your music to obscure and uncharted places.

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Audio

Caustic Dust – Carlos Butler
Gleaming Lake – Sam Windell
Holophote – Sam Windell
Miasma – Sam Windell
Wildland – Carlos Butler

Powered by Mirage

A free VST/AU control-hub for FrozenPlain sounds

Mirage is a sample-based-synthesis VST/AU plugin for Windows and Mac that comes free with any powered-by-Mirage product. It’s the control hub for FrozenPlain’s new sounds, offering a powerful set of parameters and effects for rapid, flexible sound design, no matter what the sound source is.

Once it’s opened up in your DAW, you’ll see all of your powered-by-Mirage products ready to click on and use instantly. There’s no subscription or log-in procedure, just instant access to the sounds and presets.

Three independent sound layers can be layered together

Mirage libraries are loaded from a side panel

9 effects can be used to shape the sound

Presets can be quickly loaded and saved

Download PDF User Manual

Designed for sound layering

Mirage allows for up to three different sounds to be controlled separately and layered together. The layers in Mirage have the following controls unique to them: pitch, volume and pan, filter, volume envelope, LFO, EQ, sample loop settings and MIDI settings. These controls facilitate an incredible amount of manipulation over the original sound source.

Designed to be played

Mirage is set up to make fully playable patches. Sounds will respond to both MIDI velocity and the sustain pedal (MIDI CC 64). On top of that, any parameter in Mirage can be controlled by knobs or sliders on your physical MIDI controller. This is done by simply right-clicking the parameter, selecting ‘MIDI learn’ and then moving your controller. And of course, Mirage can be automated with your DAW.

Minimum friction from your mind to your DAW

Mirage is designed to not get in your way. It is fast to load up and is efficient with CPU usage. It has a vector-based GUI that can be resized so that it will work on any size screen. The controls are laid out intuitively, and a full description each control can be viewed by hovering the mouse over it. In the rare case when you need some deeper info, a PDF manual with all of the nitty-gritty details covered is included.

Explore new sounds spontaneously

For spontaneous inspiration, Mirage features controls for randomly loading presets and changing parameters. The random preset button has 4 modes for scoping the randomisation to your preferred level, whether that be a folder, a library or the given search text. Parameters can be randomised at various levels too: complete randomisation, just instruments or just the effects rack.

Use presets or design utterly unique patches

Mirage is simple on the surface, but has depth for complex sound design when you need it. Initially you might start with exploring the ready-to-use factory presets using the presets browser. But from there you can further layer, mangle and modulate the sound to be the perfect fit for your track; Mirage is a powerful tool for creating utterly unique organic instruments.

A rack of built-in Effects

Built-in effects such as distortion, bit-crush, chorus and stereo widener can be used to enhance the sound with extra harmonics or extra simulated width. The compressor can be used to control dynamics or add punch, and the filter can be used to isolate just the frequencies you need.

Mirage also has reverb and delay effects for real space simulation. These are great for sound design too. One of the reverb effects is a convolution reverb; this is typically used to add a real-sounding reverberation to the signal by using a sample of a real space (AKA an impulse response). Mirage features both realistic impulse responses and abstract ones for creative sound design.

Access to free updates

By purchasing this product, or any powered-by-Mirage product, you gain access to updates with new features and improvements. These will almost always be completely free. We will ensure these updates never break backwards compatibility. This means as the capability of Mirage expands, your old DAW projects or presets will still work just like they used to.

If you already have Mirage, you can visit this page to download the latest version. It’s worth noting that Mirage has no use unless you have a Mirage library; in the current version, these can only be made with our internal tools.

Audio crafted by sound designer and composer, Carlos Butler

Carlos Butler, who is also known for his sound design project, Temporal Geometry, created the samples of Wraith. For Wraith he has drawn from years of experience as a composer of ambient and cinematic music which he releases under the name Rildrim. His skill for tonality and for making samples that can be used in a practical, musical way shine through in this library.

Instant Download

Wraith is distributed as a digital download only. It should only take a matter of minutes before you can start using it in your production. FrozenPlain has a streamlined checkout system, you only need to put in essential information. For the first product you buy here, you will be prompted to set a password in order to create an account. All products you buy on this site are added to your account and the latest versions can be re-downloaded at any time.

You can pay for Wraith with a credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Apple Pay. The payment process is handled by our online reseller Paddle.com. Once payment has been completed successfully you will be able to download Wraith instantly.

Requirements

Wraith is designed to be as accessible as possible to producers, composers, musicians, and sound designers. You probably already have what you need if you are producing audio on a reasonably modern computer. There is one exception – Wraith is not available in the AAX plugin format yet, and so will not run in Pro Tools. Here are the specific requirements:

  • Windows: a computer running Windows 7 or higher. Mirage is available as a 32-bit and a 64-bit plugin. However, the installer needs a 64-bit machine. Virtually all Windows machines are 64-bit.
  • Mac: macOS 10.12 or higher. Both Intel chips and M1 chips are supported (universal binary).
  • A host that can play either a VST2 plugin or an AudioUnit v2 (AU) plugin. Examples of such hosts are Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One, Reaper, Reason, FL Studio, Logic X, Garage Band, and many more. Logic 9 or older does not support AudioUnit v2, and so this product will not work in it.

What's Included

  • 83 presets, saved as separate mirage-wraith files
  • Mirage sample-based synthesis engine included
  • Wraith Mirage library (closed format mdata file) which features 230 instruments
  • ~650MB file download

Reviews (4)

4 reviews for Wraith

  1. Troy Mickins –

    This instrument is perfect for creating dark ambient soundscapes without a fuss. It sounds great and it allows you to get the type of sound you want quick and easy. Also, the Mirage engine has a straight forward GUI that makes Wraith a pleasure to work with.

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  2. hirofumi yamaguchi –

    Wraith gives me a Dark and Strange inspiration.
    And it’s the best instrumental to quickly express it in music.

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  3. Christopher Bright –

    Frozen Plain has done it again! Wraith is an amazing atmospheric instrument. It’s very easy to use, great for inspiration, and I find myself coming back to use it on a regular basis! Also, the Mirage engine allows for a lot of flexibility, and I’m excited to see more instruments using the engine in the future.

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  4. davidicus schacher –

    This is my go-to for undercurrents and unique textures. Can be so dark. No regrets at all!

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