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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.
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 MNTRA Instruments' interest in learning and mastering these ancient instruments, and their continuous search for novel sounds and processes. Led by their extensive experience creating award-winning musical sound worlds for AAA video games, they have 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 MNTRA's Animistic Sampler Engine, MNDALA 2, these incredibly deep samples expand infinitely in possibility. Using MNTRA Instruments' 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.
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)
- Recorded at extreme definition 32-bit 384kHz ultrasonic resolution
- CPU-efficient in-engine playback at industry-leading 24-bit 96kHz resolution
- 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
System Requirements
- 8 GB installed (16 GB recommended for setup)
- 64-bit VST3 / AU / AAX plugin for Windows & macOS (10.11+) (including Apple Silicon chip support)
- Minimum 8 GB of RAM and an i5 or better CPU required (SSD drive recommended)
- Supported by all VST3 / AU / AAX compatible DAWs
Chris Dudley
"I own every MNTRA instrument and I can honestly say they’re all pushing a limit and filling a niche I didn’t even know was there. Between Underoath and film scoring, I’ve used UDW, Arca, Atma, or Orakle in literally every project I’ve worked on since I discovered MNTRA."
Gareth Coker
"The best way to describe MNDALA and its instruments is that they feel 'alive'. Samples by definition are snapshots of a moment in time, and therefore static, but to my ear, the team at MNTRA has worked tirelessly to create a set of instruments that feel performed, and as a result truly enjoyable to play and compose with."
Ryan Elder
"In a sea of virtual instruments and sound libraries Mntra's Instruments really stand out as creative and inspirational tools. The instruments sound fantastic and the innovative interface will help you break through even the most stubborn writer's block. There's really nothing else like it."
