Create Lush, Ethereal String Backdrops And Chords, Quickly And Easily
For “Arctic Strings: Mirage” a whole string section was recorded playing long sustained notes both softly and loudly; FrozenPlain turned this into a single, uncomplicated virtual instrument with controllable dynamics.
What’s Included
- 42 presets, saved as separate mirage-strings files
- Mirage sample-based synthesis engine included
- Arctic Strings Mirage library (closed format mdata file)
- ~250MB file download
Furthermore, you can shape the sound to fit your track by using Mirage engine’s features, such as attack, release, reverb, and tuning.
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Experience Beautiful String Tones In A Simple, Easy To Understand Interface
“Arctic Strings: Mirage” has a beautiful shimmering tone with ethereal high strings and powerful basses; perfect for playing chords and harmonies. Create swells of intensity and emotion using the dynamics knob, which blends the sound between real recordings of the strings playing softly, and playing loudly.
As well as this, this instrument’s sound fits excellently with both synths and real instrumentation. This means Arctic Strings works well in anything from emotional cinematic scores to background elements in an electronic track.
The samples are wide and lush stereo recordings from a medium-sized string ensemble recorded in a church. It is not a deep-sampled and technical concert hall-type library, instead, this library excels at strings for ambiance and atmosphere. They are incredibly easy to use and fill that gap between detailed realism and smooth, rich pads.
A Single Easy-To-Use Articulation
The string section very commonly plays large chords or is used to add additional texture to other more prominent instruments. This is where Arctic Strings excels: the entire realistic-sounding string section is available at your fingertips – from basses to violins.
The attack and release can be controlled like a synth, and you can even set the instrument to play monophonically, allowing for a legato-like playing style.
42 Presets
With the Mirage engine, you can take the sound beyond the realms of realism and create organic-synth instruments. You’ll find examples of this in the 42 included presets. These are arranged into 3 categories: Realistic, Realistic Processed and Sound Design.
- Realistic Folder – here you’ll find patches for emulating real strings: wide chords, monophonic and octave harmony patches.
- Realistic Processed Folder – explores the boundary between realistic and synthetic. Including washed-out string reverb instruments and filtered string sounds.
- Sound Design Folder – contains synth-like presets that make full use of Mirage’s features: synth plucks, distorted leads and drifting detunes.
Powered by Mirage
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.
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.
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.
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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Arctic Strings: Mirage”?
Designed for creating lush, ethereal backdrops and chords: “Arctic Strings: Mirage” is perfect for the following music genres:
- Cinematic Underscore
- TV Music
- Ambient Music
- Sound Design
Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit an external website in order to redeem and download your product. We do not host the download at VSTBuzz.
IMPORTANT: This product does NOT support Logic 9 or older, Pro Tools, or VST3-only DAWs.
"Arctic Strings: Mirage" by FrozenPlain
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- 42 presets, saved as separate mirage-strings files
- Mirage sample-based synthesis engine included
- Arctic Strings Mirage library (closed format mdata file)
- ~250MB file download
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- Windows: a computer running Windows 7 or higher. Mirage is available as a 64-bit plugin only.
- 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.
- Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit an external website in order to create an account, redeem and download your product. We do not host the download at VSTBuzz.
- IMPORTANT: This product does NOT support Logic 9 or older, Pro Tools, or VST3-only DAWs.
- Easily create lush, ethereal backdrops and chords that are perfect for Cinematic Underscore, TV Music. Ambient Music, Sound Design and much more!
John – :
Arctic Strings: Mirage is quite simply a beautiful sounding string ensemble with just the right amount of variation presets available… or create your own with the easy to use Mirage interface.
Brent – :
Straight forward, easy uncluttered user interface. Great if you just want some fantastic strings without hours of tweaking
Aaron – :
Excellent collection of strings with a very intuitive interface. Fantastic range of presets. Was able to start creating with it immediately.
Garry – :
Beautiful and dreamy sounds with a lot of different combinations possible.This a whole String section which can bring a lot emotions to a track, it doesn’t matter which style you work on, it’s simple to use and you can bring a powerfful string section to your track or an heavy atmosphere, there is no limits. A great tool .Highly recomanded.
Paul – :
Beautiful addition to the sample instrument from Frozen plain. It is amazing how many textures and atmospheres I can create with this sample pack.