The legato button toggles polyphony (the ability to play more than one note at once) when clicked. There’s of course a dynamics slider, but this is controlled via the modwheel anyway. There are a good variety of harmonies given to us (1-4-6, 1-3-6, thirds, etc.) and all of these can be locked to a major or minor scale of your choice. Underneath this is a harmonise control, used for triggering harmonies from single notes. When drenched in reverb, the samples take on an entirely new icy character.īelow the reverb is a basic envelope control for adjusting the attack, decay, sustain and release of your sound in case it’s too quick or too slow for your taste. Frozenplain gives us some great reverb presets (my personal favourites being Dream and Wind). Up the top, we have some basic reverb controls, which really add to the iciness of the sound when implemented. It gets you right into the arctic mood!Īll the controls are to the right of the interface window. The interface is very simple and easy to use, and also features an attractive design – when you play a note on the keyboard, the background image lights up with a beautiful animation of the Northern Lights. ( incidentally, Brian from Audio Plugin Deals has done a great video covering Frozenplain’s product range – if you have some spare time, go and check that out!) Frozenplain have done a pretty nice job with this library, and I had a fun time playing around with it. A library like Spitfire’s Tundra might come close, but for the price point this library’s a no-brainer. You might be thinking, “Ah, it’s just another string library, move on dude…” to which I say, it’s not going to compete with any of the big string libraries considering it goes for a pretty niche sound – something cold and eerie, hence the name Arctic Strings.

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