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 colorful foundation to conceive and design amazing music and sounds.
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 kilometers. Together with Huracan, Caprakan lets you explore 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 are 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.
Features
- 100 Presets
- 50+ Instrument Sample Maps
- Up to 18 Round Robins
- Up to 3 Dynamic Layers
- Up to 4 Microphone Channels (close, far, vintage, resonant)
First-time user of Mntra Instruments?
They require the MNDALA 2 Free Engine
Simply install once and you will be able to run all of our instruments.
Description
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
Hybrid
- Arco del Duende ( Pluck 1, Pluck 2)
- Arco del Duende Bowed (Short, Long)
- Hybrid Mayan Reed (Short, Long)
System Requirements
Technical Specifications
Samples
- Recorded at extreme definition 32-bit 384kHz ultrasonic resolution
- CPU-efficient in-engine playback at industry-leading 24-bit 96kHz resolution
Engine
- AAX/VST3/AU plugin for Windows & Mac OS (10.11+) Including M1 Chip
- No fuss copy protection, simply install and the instrument is uniquely encrypted to be used within your system
- Seamless downloads, updates, and installation within MNDALA with a registered Mntra account
File Size
- 50 multi-sampled instruments
- 9.45GM installed, 15GB recommended for setup
System Requirements
- Minimum 8GB of RAM and an i5 or better CPU required
- Supported by all 64-bit AAX/VST3/AU compatible DAW’s
* Mixcraft 9 Pro is not supported
Specs
- Recorded at Extreme definition 32-bit 384kHz ultrasonic resolution
- CPU-efficient in-engine playback at industry-leading 24-bit 96kHz resolution
- 64-bit VST 3/AU plugin for Windows & Mac OS (10.11+) including full M1 Chip support
- No fuss copy protection, simply install and the instrument is uniquely encrypted to be used within your system
- Seamless download, updates, and installation within MNDALA with a registered MNTRA account
- 8GB installed, 16GB recommended for setup
- Minimum 8GB of RAM and an i5 or better CPU required, SSD drive recommended
- Supported by all popular VST/AU compatible DAW’s
*Requires MNDALA V2.0.0 Free Engine
Works with all VST3/AU compatible DAWs
Change Log
FAQs
Tutorials
MNTRA MNDALA Engine Walkthrough
Learn how to use the MNDALA Engine and its features to facilitate your exploration of MNTRA's sound sculptures, with this tutorial from composer Jeff Tremblett.
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