About Floe
Welcome to Floe!
Floe is an audio plugin for your digital audio workstation (DAW). It's a platform for performing, finding, and transforming sounds from compatible sample libraries. It hosts sample-based instruments (sampled pianos, synths, textures, and so on) and exposes an extensive set of parameters for venturing into sample-based synthesis. A comprehensive presets system with powerful browsers, macros, a random variation generator, and other features makes it a formidable engine for sample libraries.
It focuses on ease of use and performance, designed to offer a curated experience for producing music rather than overwhelming complexity.
Floe is not designed for ad-hoc sampling — you can't currently import your own samples. Instead, it's an open platform for professional, curated, sample-library products. For those with programming experience, the means to make custom libraries is fully open.
Floe itself is free and open source. It works offline, with no accounts or logins.
Key features
- 3 independent layers to blend and mix, even with Instruments from different libraries
- 12 effects in a reorderable rack
- Powerful granular synthesis
- Per-layer arpeggiator
- Comprehensive browsers for finding the right sound or preset
- Random variations for spontaneous inspiration
- Macros that shape a preset with a single knob
- Sound-design friendly: undo/redo, and a switch to compare your edits with the original preset
- All the fundamentals: envelopes, filters, EQ, MIDI CC and sustain pedal support
- Efficient: multiple instances of Floe share the sample libraries they've loaded, keeping memory use low
- Resizable window
- Totally free and open source: offline, no logins, no catches
- Free sample libraries to get you started