Get Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite for $1 at Plugin Boutique and claim a FREE gift

You can use the coupon code amacam8 to drop the price of Excite Audio’s Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite to $1 at Plugin Boutique.

Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite normally costs $29 and is already on sale for $19, but applying the code amacam8 at checkout brings it down to $1.

Earlier today, the code was giving a full 100% discount, but that is no longer the case. Still, for under a dollar, I think this is a very solid deal, and there is an extra reason to grab it right now.

Because this counts as a paid purchase at Plugin Boutique, it qualifies you for one of the free gifts available this month.

With any paid purchase, you can choose between Deep Waters by ZAK Sound (a convolution reverb built from water recordings with 104 presets, XY pad filters, and a built-in delay), Distiller by Diginoiz (a distortion and filter plugin with 15 distortion types, 29 filter types, and LFO modulation), or a Loopcloud 3-Month Artist Plan.

The higher-tier gifts (Riffer by Audiomodern and Melodyne 5 Essential by Celemony) require minimum purchases of $49 and $99, respectively, so those are not available with this deal.

As for the plugin itself, Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite is a BPM-synced ensemble strings instrument built from basses, cellos, and violins.

It comes with 75 presets organized into seven categories covering drones, experimental textures, full ensembles, melodic patches, rhythmic pizzicatos and staccatos, solo instruments, and background textures.

You get 56 samples across 4 sample banks, 14 sample keys, 10 modifier keys (half-time, double-time, reverse, octave shifts, and custom sequence triggers), and 4 macro controls for Drive, Stereo, Chamber, and Vinyl.

There are also three built-in effects (modulation, reverb, and delay) plus high-pass and low-pass filtering.

I love the simplicity of Bloom plugins, and they’re pretty fun to use if you need to get some layers or ideas going quickly in a track. I also like the minimal design, and the sounds are very good.

That said, a few BPB readers have reported that Excite Audio plugins can be CPU-heavy, especially on systems with older or integrated GPUs. If you run into performance issues, you can try configuring your DAW to use your dedicated GPU instead of the integrated one.

We do not know when this coupon expires, so act fast if you want to take advantage of it. Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite is available in VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats for macOS (10.15+, Intel and Apple Silicon) and Windows 7+ (64-bit).

Download: Bloom Ensemble Strings Lite ($1 with code amacam8)

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Last Updated on March 26, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.