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Scenic Vibrations
Picturesque tonal resonations synth
Resonating metal sheets, koto strings, and suspended steel frames: Scenic Vibrations delivers beautifully organic yet unfamiliar tonal textures perfect for cinematic atmosphere—from dramatic tension to emotional ambience to horror dread. Created by composer Si Begg (Sky TV, Netflix), this instrument offers over 100 professionally crafted presets and powerful 3-layer processing for immediate customisable sound design.
£20.00 GBP
Personal License
Unique surface-transducer recordings
Beautifully organic yet unfamiliar cinematic textures.
Over 100 production-ready presets
Professional sound design by industry veteran Si Begg.
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 seasonal sales — buy when the tool is right for you.
Hear Scenic Vibrations in Action
Forensic Examination — Si Begg
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Demo (Graph Paper Remix) — Si Begg
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30 Surface Transducer Instruments
The 30 instruments are created from recordings of metal objects resonating with a surface transducer – a device that turns any resonant surface into a speaker. Metal sheets, koto strings, bass guitar strings and suspended steel frames were used.
Each sample is roughly 20 seconds long, tuned and looped seamlessly. Load any of the 30 instruments across Floe's three-layer core, controlling volume envelope, EQ, LFO, pitch and more. Blend multiple sounds together to create new timbres, or use the 'randomise all instruments' button to quickly trial new combinations.
Created by Composer Si Begg
Composer Si Begg (Sky TV, Netflix's Lovesick) created the recordings, sample editing and many of the presets. His two decades of experience scoring for film, TV and trailers bring technical skill and an ear for usable sound design to Scenic Vibrations – an instrument he uses in his own professional work.
107 Presets by Si Begg and Sam Windell
Browse through 107 factory presets designed by Si Begg and Sam Windell, including suspenseful keys, dark ambiences, fluttering pads and droning bass-pads. Each preset can be further customised with Floe's interface.
Videos
Note: This video shows Mirage, now succeeded by Floe. All features shown are available in Floe with full compatibility.
Recording resonating, suspended steel sheets
Scenic Vibrations 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.
Scenic Vibrations 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.
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.
Mood-board
Our visual interpretation of Scenic Vibrations’s sound
Details
Requirements
Runs inside 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 Cubase, Logic Pro, Studio One, Ableton Live, Reaper, Bitwig, FL Studio, Ardour, and more.
Library
- Floe format, fully tagged and integrated in Floe
- Download size: 66 MB
Help and support
Contents
Full preset list 107 presets
107 presets (complete production-ready patches) in Scenic Vibrations - Factory Presets (v1.2).
Atmospheres 4 presets
- SB - Evolver 1
- SB - Evolver 2
- SB - Harmonic Orbits
- SB - High Tension
Basses 2 presets
- SB - Fat Hollow Bass
- SB - Techy Bass
Dark Ambience 14 presets
- Drifting Piercer
- Horrendous Drone
- Migraine
- SB - Boiler Room
- SB - Control Rod
- SB - Depth Perception
- SB - Engine
- SB - Haunted House
- SB - Pulsat
- SB - Uncertain Outcomes
- Simmering Drone
- Tense Underscore 1
- Tense Underscore 2
- Tense Underscore 3
Keys 21 presets
- Bouncing Key
- Glitter Key
- Overdrive Key
- Replica Key
- Replica Key Verb
- SB - Broken Wurli
- SB - Cheeky Pizz
- SB - Detuned Vibrations
- SB - FM Clonk
- SB - Ghost Pan
- SB - Keys of Gentle Magic
- SB - Keys That Unlock
- SB - Keys With Ghost Layer
- SB - Lo Fi Xylo
- SB - Not a Piano
- SB - Power Station Organ
- SB - Sheffield Clonk
- SB - Sonar Vibes
- SB - Wine Glass
- SB - Woozy Key
- Sine Hit
Pads 20 presets
- Atmos Base
- Base Sub Drone
- Distort Lead
- Distorted Tonal One-Shot 1
- Distorted Tonal One-Shot 2
- Distorted Tonal One-Shot 3
- Epic Dark Swell
- Ghosts Atmos
- High Freq Background
- Megasaw
- Piercer
- SB - Corbomite
- SB - Dark Pads
- SB - Fantasia Pad
- SB - Krautrock Pads
- SB - Space Pads
- SB - Trautonium Pad
- Sub Atmos 1
- Sub Atmos 2
- Tonal Verb Hit
Pulsers 20 presets
- Action Strobe
- Building Action Strobe
- Clicking Beep Pulse
- Distorted Bass Driver 1
- Distorted Bass Driver 2
- Distorted Driver
- Driving Pulser
- Epic Pulser 1
- Epic Pulser 2
- Granular Beep Pulser
- Gritty Noise Pulse
- Pulser
- SB - Nice Machine
- SB - Pulsing
- SB - Pulsing Beam
- SB - Space Station Pulse
- SB - Time Ticking
- Sine Pulser
- Sub Driver
- Tension Pulse
SFX 12 presets
- Cyborg Tonal One Shot 1
- Cyborg Tonal One Shot 2
- Cyborg Tonal One Shot 3
- Cyborg Tonal One Shot 4
- Cyborg Tonal One Shot 5
- Horror Pitch Drift 1
- Horror Pitch Drift 2
- Horror Pitch Drift 3
- Horror Tonal One Shot
- SB - Drama
- SB - Feedback Storm
- SB - Scraping By
Textures 14 presets
- Chattering Dark Background
- High Thriller Tension 1
- High Thriller Tension 2
- High Thriller Tension 3
- High Thriller Tension 4
- High Thriller Tension 5
- SB - 40s Radio Experiment
- SB - Alien Invasion
- SB - Ghost In The Machine
- SB - Harsh Scraper
- SB - Old Modem
- SB - Processing Data
- SB - Radiophonic Horror
- SB - Strange Landscape
Full instrument list 44 instruments
44 instruments (sound-sources loadable into each of Floe's layers) in Scenic Vibrations (v1.2).
Basic 8 instruments
- Clean Waveform
- Consistent Clean Vibration
- Raw Static Waveform
- Static Harmonics
- Sustained Tone
- Transducer Sawtooth
- Transducer Sine
- Unbroken Resonance
Core 15 instruments
- Deep Tone
- Fluttering Oscillation
- Gentle Flutter
- Hypnotic Resonator
- Imperfect Metal
- Metallic Flutter
- Piercing High Drone
- Pulsating Highs 1
- Pulsating Highs 2
- Serene Transducer
- Static Dual Tone
- Swelling Tones 1
- Swelling Tones 2
- Two Tone Hum
- Unwavering Oscillation
Dark 12 instruments
- Dark Jittering Drone
- Dim Noise
- Discordant Vibrations
- Escalating Tone
- Fabricated Hum
- Faltering Resonations
- Metallic Murmur
- Monotonous Dissonance
- Moving Tones
- Multi Resonator
- Scraping Oscillation
- Unmelodic Hum
Processed 9 instruments
- Amped Transducer
- Chirping Sines
- Crushed Murmur
- Damaged Noise
- Discordant Drone
- Droning Voices
- Warped Transmitter
- Wide Sawtooth
- Woody Waveform
All preset tags 70 tags
Every tag used on the presets, with how many presets have it
Sound types 13
pad
22
texture
22
bass
19
keys
18
sound fx
13
drone
12
hit
7
oneshot
5
underscore 4pluck 3stab 1lead 1riser 1
Moods & genres 26
cinematic
95
ambient
51
dark
29
tense
28
sci-fi
16
electronic
15
dreamy
11
industrial
9
peaceful 8eerie 8horror 7mysterious 7bright 7thriller 7nostalgic 5subdued 5hypnotic 4aggressive 4dystopian 4menacing 3glitch 2epic 2dramatic 1techno 1playful 1experimental 1
Timbres 31
metallic
33
evolving
21
pulsing
20
gritty
17
percussive
17
glassy
17
digital
16
resonant
16
warm 14distorted 11rumbly 11ringing 9airy 7lo-fi 6smooth 6harsh 6fluctuating 5pure 4dissonant 4saturated 4lush 3cold 2thin 2glitched 2muffled 1noisy 1organ-like 1strings-like 1full-spectrum 1grainy 1whining 1
All instrument tags 30 tags
Every tag used on the instruments, with how many instruments have it
Sources 2
field recording
44
synthesized
44
Timbres 28
resonant
20
fluctuating
16
metallic
16
evolving
15
gritty
14
ringing
10
noisy
9
warm
8
digital 7harsh 5cold 5airy 5smooth 5distorted 4pure 4thin 4glassy 4grainy 2hissing 2lo-fi 2glitched 2organ-like 1choir-like 1saturated 1reedy 1muffled 1nasal 1whining 1
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