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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
Personal License
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.
Powered by Floe
Our free plugin for expressive performance — simple yet highly customisable with layers, FX, granular and more (CLAP/VST3/AU).
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Hear Terracotta in Action
Clouds — Sam Windell
0:00 3:02
Glacial Stone — Sam Windell
0:00 1:02
Terracotta Army — Sam Windell
0:00 1:43
TerraToccata — Bach
0:00 5:42
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.
New in v2
Granular synthesis
Stretch, freeze and reshape any instrument into evolving clouds and textures — even multisampled instruments.
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.
What's inside Terracotta
- Presets
- 40
- Complete, production-ready patches
- Instruments
- 6
- Playable sound-sources inside Floe
- Download
- 57.7 MB
- Optimised for disk space with modern lossless compression
- Type
- Floe Package
- Easy to install in Floe (free)
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
Technical Details
Engine
Floe, our free CLAP/VST3/AU plugin (Windows, macOS or Linux)
Library format
Floe format sample library and presets — fully tagged and integrated in Floe
Support Info
Requirements
Runs in Floe v2 or later — the free plugin (Windows, macOS, or
Linux • VST3, CLAP, or AU). Details
Buying Info
Instant download • No account needed • Shop info
Crossgrades
Own Terracotta: Kontakt? You may be eligible for a crossgrade discount
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