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OrakleMultidimensional Dark Sounds Suite Orakle is inspired by desolate landscapes and ancient aesthetics, by combining arcane instruments and techniques from medieval, nordic, and pan-Asian musical cultures. Our curated suite of strings, percussion, voices, and more blend together to forge a vast unique cinematic soundscape – enhanced by our multidimensional Sound Sculpture audio engine MNDALA 2. Performed by award-winning multi-instrumentalist composer Brian D’Oliveira, and drawing from decades of experience gained during our award-winning film and video-game productions, Orakle features Medieval & Eastern-inspired performance methods as well as unconventional extended techniques. Each note is a unique performance brought to life within Orakle, ready for you to sculpt. Ranging from our powerful Tibetan Horns and Giant Concert Bass Drum to the grating wails of the Turkish Kabak Kemane and Treble Viola Da Gambas, Orakle creates a distinctly dark atmosphere. Our sampling approach comes from our desire to share something unconventionally interesting. Enhanced and transformed within our MNDALA Engine, allows you to explore countless sonic pathways of dynamic sound design with these rare instruments. List Of Instruments
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Price History: Orakle $89.00 |
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PripyatIrradiated Synth Textures Pripyat is MNTRA’s first foray into the world of synthetic textures, funnelled through our idiosyncratic approach to sampling and sound design. With a focus on the cold and industrial character of some of their favourite synth heavy scores, they derived the main source material from electromagnetic interference recorded at an electrical substation and unstable vintage analog synths processed by custom-made guitar pedals and eurorack modular. These radioactive soundscapes are sure to add a new dimension to your palette — inspiring you and breathing new life into your music. At the core of Pripyat is MNTRA’s desire to present a collection of electronic textures with a unique aesthetic and take full advantage of the cutting-edge sound design engine MNDALA. This library features brutal electromagnetic interference, normally inaudible to the human ear – both in its pure form and re-amped through various acoustic resonators, warbling vintage analog synthesizers processed through various guitar pedals and Eurorack modular effects, and clamorous ultrasonic recordings of dry ice on a rare Marimbaphone and a Bombo drum, as well as additional percussion sounds. Within the proprietary MNDALA engine, the source material is vastly expanded, allowing you to create deeply textured soundscapes, as well as go-to synth basses, pads, leads, and FX. MNTRA’s team of experienced sound designers have created a collection of 60 presets to get you started right out of the box, so whether you’re looking for quick inspiration or a complex sound design environment, there’s something for you. To intuitively control the complex array of back-end parameters in real-time, MNTRA created an interactive animated scene inspired by retro soviet poster art, allowing you to intuitively ‘play’ Pripyat like a physical instrument. Instruments Included Electromagnetic
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Price History: Pripyat $39.00 |
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CaprakanThe 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
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Price History: Caprakan $149.00 |
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AtmaAn Otherworldly Portal Into Ultrasonic Sound Healing Atma is a collection of sacred sound instruments obtained by MNTRA’s award winning founder & composer, Brian D’Oliveira, during his many pilgrimages to holy sites around the world. Ranging from ritual healing bells to pitched Aztec volcanic rocks, MNTRA creatively sampled these special instruments to explore the potential of the powerful nonlinear sound-design engine MNDALA. By capturing the rich textures of these ancient instruments with their leading-edge ultrasonic sampling process, MNTRA allow you to explore their complex harmonics with a depth and clarity that was previously impossible. MNTRA’s team of expert sound designers have crafted a diverse array of presets that span arpeggiated bell clusters, evolving atmospheric pads, cinematic percussion, and much more, allowing for immediate inspiration right out of the box. Additionally, just under the hood of the intuitive interface, lies the potential to sculpt the sound into whatever you imagine and beyond. Whether you’re creating ambient soundscapes, pulsing electronica, avant-garde explorations, or massive cinematic swells, Atma will become an indispensable instrument in your toolkit. Atma is a sonic gateway into new dimensions of sounds that have been left unexplored until now. The interactive animated performance interface has been carefully crafted to enhance the exploration of these new sonic realms. Featuring a crystalline ocean and an emerging ephemeral being, opening a gateway into these new dimensions. Features
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Price History: Atma $99.00 |
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Orakle XDark Sounds Suite Expanded Orakle X offers everything you need to make modern cinematic music inspired by ancient sounds. Informed by our passion for international instruments and techniques, Orakle X transcends place and time. It includes experimental string articulations, thunderous horns, flute clusters, overtone singing, a massive array of unique percussion, and so much more. Orakle X is MNTRA’s largest Sound Sculpture Instrument yet, offering everything you need to make modern cinematic music inspired by ancient sounds. Informed by their passion for international instruments and techniques, Orakle X transcends place and time. Orakle X includes experimental string articulations, thunderous horns, flute clusters, overtone singing, a massive array of unique percussion, and so much more. Orakle X expands on MNTRA’s original Orakle Sound Sculpture Instrument. For an affordable, condensed collection of the Orakle X sounds, check out the original, Orakle! At the heart of Orakle X is MNTRA’s founder Brian D’Oliveira’s (The Witcher NOTW, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 7 + 8) vast collection of one-of-a-kind instruments, assembled during his many travels across the globe. His dedication to studying the ancient performance techniques of these unique instruments, combined with MNTRA’s leading-edge ultrasonic sampling workflow, allows them to be heard in an entirely new way. From aleatoric flute swarms and bombastic drums to bowed metal textures and extended Baroque cello harmonics, Orakle X gives you all the components needed to create visionary sound worlds. Recorded with state-of-the-art equipment in MNTRA’s legendary RCA Victor studio in Montreal, and meticulously sampled to capture the nuanced resonances of these rare instruments, Orakle X has vast compositional and sound design applications. This isn’t your off-the-shelf orchestral library. These sounds are dripping with personality. MNTRA’s performances focused on alternative extended techniques that amplify the distinctive characteristics of the instruments. Simply hold down one note and hear the sound evolve under your finger. Recorded with sonic mangling and manipulation in mind, MNTRA’s powerful MNDALA Sound Design Engine allows you to shape these instruments into anything you can imagine. Transform a beautiful quena flute into a speaker-rattling industrial drone. Warp the harmonically rich treble gamba strings into an otherworldly ambient pad. This is your sonic playground. To get you started, MNTRA’s team of sound designers has created a bank of over 40 expertly crafted presets. Utilizing the full power of their 3-axis RTPCs (Real-Time Parameter Controls), the interactive animated Perform View interface allows you to easily explore these complex presets. Simply map your favourite MIDI controller to the XYZ performance macros and follow this inspiring collection of dynamic sounds wherever they take you. Instrument Sample Maps Wind
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Price History: Orakle X $139.00 |
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KymeraDark Sound Effects Redefined Kymera is a macabre collection of haunted sounds for the next generation of horror. Building on years of R&D in creating custom instruments for award-winning horror video games and films, the MNTRA team spent weeks in the studio experimenting with unconventional sound objects and techniques to bring you a horror toolkit unlike any other.
Enter a World of Evil Kymera is the first entry in MNTRA Instruments’ new series of instruments based on the principles of Musique concrète developed by French composer Pierre Schaeffer in the 1940s and now taken into the future. Inside you will find a vast collection of idiosyncratic sounds recorded in extreme ultrasonic quality, allowing you to pitch and manipulate the original recordings beyond recognition without losing their clarity and definition. As laid out in the tape experiments conducted by Schaeffer and his contemporaries in the mid-20th century, Kymera allows you to burn all relations between the sampled material and its sonic origin, creating brand new sound objects out of the ashes. Inspired by classic horror sound effects, this instrument is not for the faint of heart. Spanning the screeching tones of dry ice on metal, whining hurdy-gurdy drones, blood-curdling screams, the voice of MNTRA’s studio mascot Penny the French bulldog, and countless others; these sounds are a testament to their love for all things dark. Within the collection of 60 presets that MNTRA has designed to kickstart your journey into this dark new world, you will find sound effects including dynamic monster vocalizations, environmental sounds, and foley; as well as tonal elements such as rhythmic sequences, drones, and pads made from surprising and unlikely sources. Whether you’re a sound designer searching for the creature sounds of the future, an experimental musician looking to add organic depth to your productions, or a film/video game composer in need of instant inspiration, there is something waiting for you in Kymera. Inside Kymera (30 Sample Maps and Up to 14 Round Robbins) Monsters
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Price History: Kymera $59.00 |
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HuracanWild Winds Awaken Introducing Huracan, a gateway into a new world of winds and percussion inspired by Meosoamerican and Andean cultures. 11 rare and unique wind instruments are accompanied by 5 textural percussion sounds, giving you a complete, curated palette, ready to create breathtaking music. Huracan (A.K.A; U Kʼux Kaj, Heart of Sky) is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, and fire. Here MNTRA imagined a hidden cenote deep in the jungle where a lone traveller stumbles upon the ancient deity, incidentally awakening it from a deep slumber and activating a portal into an alternate timeline where pre-hispanic cultures continued to thrive unaffected by colonisation. Over time they developed their own distinctive version of synthesisers and electronic instruments. Central to Huracan is MNTRA’s founder Brian D’Oliveira’s (Composer of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf ) deep connection with South and Central American cultures and their unique instruments. Originally raised in the Venezuelan Andes mountains, he began a lifelong pursuit of learning and researching ancient musical cultures, starting with these unique instruments. Here, MNTRA have deeply sampled a curated collection of sources from his personal arsenal, allowing you to harness their unique potential in your own compositions. Within MNTRA’s bespoke Animistic Sampler Engine, MNDALA, these sounds can be shaped into entirely new forms with an intuitive 3-axis global control system. Built on years of development in capturing and efficiently reproducing extreme definition audio, MNDALA allows you to discover and manipulate the ultrasonic textures hidden within these ancient winds and percussion, never before accessible in a playable form. Additionally, the extensive custom-made FX system gives you the tools to transform the source material into an endless range of otherworldly synths and textures, their natural air and pitch fluctuations imbuing your sound with unparalleled life and variation. Wind
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Price History: Huracan $99.00 |
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Ultrasonic Death WhistleExplore the Dark Sounds of Aztec Death Whistles Ultrasonic Death Whistle (UDW) was designed as an introduction to MNTRA’s powerful MNDALA Sound Sculpture Engine. The combination of these two opens the door for unparalleled creative possibilities with MNTRA’s leading-edge ultrasonic quality sampling. Performed by MNTRA’s Founder – Composer & Multi-instrumentalist Brian D’Oliveira, UDW offers a window into their collection of rare pre-Columbian death whistles that were found during their research and development. Some of them were even handcrafted in their studio to expand creative sound possibilities, and many of these death whistles were featured in the production of multiple Award Winning AAA Video Game soundtracks. UDW’s video-game audio-inspired interactive scene allows for non-linear multidimensional control and patch creation for intuitive yet seamless musical expression. Each Death Whistle is named to represent its characters. Having been sculpted by hand, their sounds are recognizably unique, each sample map representing a different Death Whistle.
Instrument Sample Maps All of the following instruments are different death whistles
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ArcaInterdimensional Strings Suite Inspired by Sci-fi and Ancient Cultures Arca is an exploration into the dark side of string textures. Inspired by MNTRA Instrument’s love for sci-fi, they set out to create a playground of multidimensional sound possibilities. Using a selection of ancient bowed world instruments as sources that were then deeply processed to extend their timbres to beyond the realms of imagination, they have created a curated collection of dark, cinematic soundscapes.Taking full advantage of the MNDALA 2 Sound Design Engine, these unusual sources have been artfully sculpted to offer a wide variety of uniquely expressive sounds. Arca is built around their powerful 3-axis control system represented by a custom Perform view animation created for seamless intuitive live expression. Each preset is a unique performable instrument unto itself to be learned and explored. They simplified the manipulation of these sound-shaping parameters by creating global controls that are assignable to any MIDI sliders, knobs, or controllers. Map the controls once and you are ready to go without having to re-map them for each new MNDALA 2 instance. In addition to the curated sound worlds they created within Arca’s many presets, you can easily sculpt your own sonic landscapes using MNDALA 2’s powerful non-linear Sound Design environment. Instrument Sample Maps
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GalactronGalactron is a deep dive into the early explorations of digital synthesis. Travel through crystalline 12-bit FM synthesis, gritty Phase Distortion synthesis, and lush digitally controlled analog straight from the 80s. With the help of our powerful sound sculpting engine, MNDALA 2, the sounds of these synthesizers that we have known and loved for a long time, have been expanded into a new kaleidoscopic creation, colourful and daring to be different. Galactron is an assembly of electronic sounds that reminisce on neo-psychedelic aesthetics, inspired by the explosion of FM synthesis, daring stereo movement, gigantic reverbs and ambience pads. Through our sampling engine, MNDALA 2, the sounds of the synthesizers that we have used and loved for a long time, have grown to become a new kaleidoscopic creation, always colourful and always different. Galactron complements our ever-growing collection of instruments with a retro-modern approach to keys, pads and otherworldly atmospheres. Sampling our collection of 80s digital (or digitally controlled) synthesizers, these already characterful sounds are brought to the next level within MNDALA 2’s deep sound shaping network of effects and modulation. Through our 3-axes (XYZ) global controls, these sounds come to life in a way that was unthinkable before, morphing and breathing as you play them. FEATURES
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Price History: Galactron $49.00 |
Looking for instruments that break the mold and bring something fresh to your music? MNTRA Instruments is the epitome of uniqueness and innovation. With their avant-garde approach to instrument design, MNTRA Instruments offers a range of cutting-edge tools that will revolutionize your music production workflow. From unconventional synthesizers to boundary-pushing controllers, their instruments open up new sonic possibilities. Step into the future of music production with MNTRA Instruments. Buy MNTRA Instruments at the best price on Soundsmag today and redefine the way you make music!