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MNTRA Instruments Caprakan

MNTRA Instruments Caprakan
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MNTRA Instruments Caprakan

The Earth’s Ancient Voice.

Caprakan reimagines ancient earthen sounds and shapes them into a myriad of unusual and inspiring instruments. Including over 50 individual rare instrument sources, Caprakan fuses traditional instruments from Andean and Mesoamerican cultures with explorations of electronically-excited vibrating matter.

Within these rare sources, you will discover deep percussion, expressive winds, detailed strings, and organic noise-like sources to give you a colourful foundation to conceive and design amazing music and sounds.




The Story of Caprakan

Earthy, dark, and cinematic, Caprakan takes inspiration from the Mayan god of mountains and earthquakes. Furious and powerful, Caprakan vibrates and shatters matter, creating potent sounds that travel hundreds of kilometres. Together with Huracan, Caprakan lets you explore a possible alternate reality where cultures from Central and South America, free from colonialism, were able to continue developing their musical instruments, creating an entirely individual style of electronic music tools.

Core to the creation of Caprakan is our interest in learning and mastering these ancient instruments, and our continuous search for novel sounds and processes. Led by our extensive experience creating award-winning musical sound worlds for AAA video games, we created Caprakan to be an all-inclusive sound palette, offering a curated selection of all the potential layers of a musical piece: rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, and beyond.

Within our Animistic Sampler Engine, MNDALA 2, these incredibly deep samples expand infinitely in possibility. Using our proprietary 3-axes global control system, countless parameters can be expressively manipulated in real-time, allowing you to create ever-evolving soundscapes just with one preset! Whether you’re looking for quick inspiration in the vast library of handcrafted presets, or want to delve deep into sound design using backend parameters that allow the shaping of every element, Caprakan enables you to conceive unique musical sounds never heard before, that are surprisingly full of life and magic.


What's Inside?

Wind

  • Pájaro Whistle (Short, Long, Warble 1, Warble 2).
  • Death Whistle
  • Brazilian Hunting Whistle (Short, Long)
  • Mini Quena (Straight)
  • Mayan Double Flute (Flutter)
  • Bird Ocarina (Straight, Whisper)
  • Mayan Double Flute (Tremolo)
  • Large Hybrid Reed (Long)
  • Overtone Flute (Left, Right)
  • Small Clay Flute (Short, Long)
  • Two-Tone Flute (Short, Long)
  • Mayan Horn (Short 1, Short 2)
  • Mayan Horn (Long 1, Long 2)
  • Mayan Horn + Drum Resonator
  • Re-Amped Flute
  • Gaita (Short, Short Flutter)

 

Percussion

  • Medium Teponaztlis Mallet Hit
  • Large Teponaztlis Mallet Hit
  • Large Teponaztlis Side Hit
  • Giant Teponaztlis Mallet Hit
  • Giant Drum Shaker Hit (1, 2)
  • Giant Drum Finger Rub
  • Giant Drum Mallet Hit
  • Huehuetl Mallet Hit
  • Gourd Skin Resonator

  • Hybrd

    • Arco del Duende ( Pluck 1, Pluck 2)
    • Arco del Duende Bowed (Short, Long)
    • Hybrid Mayan Reed (Short, Long)


    Our approach to creating revolutionary instruments


    Continuous play and the pushing of creative boundaries are foundational to our instrument creation process. Rather than trying to recreate true-to-life instruments, we choose to experiment and go off the beaten track, in search of a new kind of virtual instrument.

    Inspired by the natural world and ancient knowledge from around the world, we embrace expressive (im)perfections. Performing and recording instruments using experimental methods to create sounds like you’ve never heard before.

    From our bespoke extreme-quality recording method using ultrasonics, to our constant experimentation with unique workflows and sound sources, each Instrument we release is a playable manifestation of our exploratory journey.

    During our sampling process, the subtleties and imperfections of live human performance are embraced and encouraged. Depending on the final intent, we will creatively post-process as little or as much as needed (sometimes beyond recognition), always making sure that the soul and character of the performance is intact once it’s been implemented as one of our expressive playable instruments.

    If this approach is something you resonate with, go ahead and explore our instrument catalogue!


    Features

    • 100+ Presets
    • 50 Instrument Sample Maps
    • Up to 18 Round Robins
    • Up to 3 Dynamic Layers
    • 4 Blendable Microphone Channels
    • (Close, Far, Vintage, and Resonant)


    Compatibility

     MAC OSX    WINDOW

    *Requires MNDALA V2.0.0 Free Engine

    Mixcraft 9 Pro is not Supported

     Windows Requirements
    • Host application compatible with:
      • AAX Native plugins
      • VST plugins
    • Windows 8 or higher (64-bit)
     Mac Requirements
    • Host application compatible with:
      • AAX Native plugins
      • Audio-Unit plugins
      • VST plugins
    • MacOS, 10.11 or higher (64-bit) including Apple Silicon Chip (M1)

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