MNTRA Caprakan

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.

Inside Caprakan

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

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

Hybrid

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