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The story of Ha Noi
Harnessing the magic of Vietnam's capital city, Ha Noi is a compilation of unique and local instruments, along with a selection of FX to augment your sound design. A unique look into the city's cultural and musical heritage, Ha Noi maintains the authenticity of the instruments by appointing local talent to perform the instruments.
Industry-leading audio
Captured using bespoke recording techniques, every instrument in Ha Noi boasts unrivalled audio quality, recorded at 384kH/32-bit fidelity. Striving for a performance-oriented instrument, MNTRA Instruments recorded 43 individual instruments, each with seven deeply sampled velocity layers comprising seven round robins each.
Bespoke MNDALA 2 playback engine
Built for the future, this advanced sampler engine comes with an array of advanced sound-shaping tools to bring your dream sound to life - all without the need for additional software. Compatible with any DAW that supports VST3 and AU formats, you can load Ha Noi and explore your creative potential to fit the requirements of your project.
Born out of years of research and development, MNDALA 2 is capable of reproducing extremely high audio quality of 24-bit at 96kHz, making it possible to edit, customise and playback Ha Noi without compromising quality.
MNDALA 2 has six fully-featured samplers that let you load individual instruments with independent processing. With 35 different onboard effects, including reverb, delay, modulation, filters, saturation, and EQs, you can craft and customize your sound like a pro. Moreover, every instrument has been recorded in a multi-microphone setup, enabling you to tailor the spatial positioning per sampler to create a completely bespoke mix.
The global modulators, custom modular effects routing, and complex sequencing per sampler offer a near-infinite amount of customization and automation for your sound over time. The three Axis-animated performance controls condensed into one compact interface allow you to take control of up to 62 parameters simultaneously when mapped to your favourite controller - all with effortless hands-on control.
A new kind of instrument
Striving to create unique instruments that stand out from the crowd, MNTRA don't simply create cut-and-paste sample libraries but instead lets you transform what you think is possible with traditional musical instruments. Rather than creating true-to-life replicas of existing sounds, MNTRA Instruments ventures off the beaten path, letting you experiment with sound design inspired by the natural world. Embracing the imperfections of musical instruments, you can record performances full of dynamism and ever-evolving sounds which move with every turn of a knob or lift of a fader.
What's included:
- Voice:
- Ca Trù Voice (Long, Broken): Vocal techniques in the Ca trù musical tradition. Ca trù is an ancient form of musical storytelling featuring a female vocalist, often accompanied by a ?àn ?áy player, and involving the interaction of the spectator.
- Strings:
- Dàn Tranh (Bend 1, Bend 2, Bend 3, Bend Up, Bend Down, Tremolo, Vibrato): The Dàn tranh is a plucked zither with a long soundbox and many strings (14-25). These kinds of bends are characteristic to the emotional quality of the instrument.
- Dàn Nhi (Straight, Straight Hard, Glissando): The Dàn nhi is a two-stringed bowed string instrument. The instrument’s small tubular body is often covered by snakeskin. This highly expressive instrument often carries the melodies of traditional Vietnamese music.
- Electric Dàn Bau (Straight, Vibrato, Bend Up):The Dàn bau is a one-string zither and is essential to Vietnamese folk music, but also commonly employed in pop and rock. It is played by striking harmonics and bending them with a lever. Here it’s plugged into a megaphone amplifier.
- Dàn Dáy: The ?àn ?áy is a plucked 3-string lute with silk or nylon strings. It is commonly used as an accompanying instrument in Ca trù music.
- Percussion:
- Trong Ban (Regular, Hand Hit, Flam): A large traditional hand drum played with a stick or hand.
- Chèo Drum (Regular, Bounce, Flam, Side): A small drum that serves as the rhythmic backbone for Chèo, a type of satirical musical folk theatre from northern Vietnam.
- Drum Set (Low, Mid, High, Double): Group of drums from a traditional Vietnamese drum set, a precursor to the modern trap drum kit.
- Pitched Percussion:
- T’rung (High, Low, Muted): The T’rung is a bamboo xylophone used by the Jarai and Bahnar ethnic groups in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
- Wind:
- Sao Meo (Large Vibrato Fast, Large Vibrato Slow, Small Double Tongue 1, Small Double Tongue 2, Small Double Tongue 3): The Sao Meo is a bamboo free reed wind instrument used by the H’mong ethnic group of northern Vietnam. Often two larger and smaller (male and female) pipes are coupled together to facilitate a wider range and tonal contrast.
- Sao Bau (Drone, Short, Straight): The Sao Bau is a free-reed wind instrument. It has a gourd wind chest with a center playing pipe and two outer drone pipes.
- Tieu (Double Tongue, Flutter, Overblown): The Tieu is a large vertically played bamboo flute.
- Sao Truc (Straight, Vibrato): The Sao truc is a small bamboo flute with six or ten fingerholes that is often called the ‘voice of Vietnam’.
- FX (Soundscapes original and effected):
- Hanoi Ambiences – Birds: Urban wildlife recorded in central Hanoi with an LCR microphone array. Ran through an extensive chain of creative processing.
- Hanoi Ambiences – Fan: Recording of an oscillating fan with an LCR microphone array.
- Hanoi Ambiences – Traffic: Hanoi’s infamous traffic recorded with an LCR microphone array.
- Hanoi Ambiences – Light Rain: Light summer rain captured in Hanoi’s old quarter with an LCR microphone array.
- Hanoi Ambiences – Med Rain: The beginning of a monsoon recorded near the Temple of Literature in Hanoi with an LCR microphone array.
- Ninh Binh Ambiences – Heavy Rain: A heavy rainstorm on a lotus field in Ninh Binh, a small city on the Red River, captured with an LCR microphone array.
- Ninh Binh Ambiences – Traffic Rain: Rain and background traffic in Ninh Binh, a small city on the Red River, captured with an LCR microphone array.
Features
- Explore the full sonic range of the instrument with over 80 presets
- 43 individual instruments
- 14 unique soundscape sample maps with both dry and processed versions available
- Seven round-robins per dynamic velocity layer offer enough versatility for expressive performances
- Two microphone channels allow you to customise your tone
- Recorded at industry-leading 384kHz/32-bit sample rate
- Extremely accurate audio resolution
- Add exciting sound design to your instrument with three custom-designed FX including Auto-Panner, Harmonic Tremolo and Metallic Verb
- Control a deep network of parameters with three real-time rendered animations
- Using the animistic sampler engine, MNDALA 2, the sounds can be shaped into entirely new forms
- Works with all VST3 and AU-compatible DAWs
- No additional software needed via the MNDALA 2 engine
Specifications
- Operating system: Windows & Mac (10.11+)
- Format: VST3, AU
- Number of instruments: 43 multi-sampled instruments
- File size: 4GB installed, 8GB for setup
- RAM: 8GB
- CPU: i5+, Apple M1
- Activation: Offline
- Supported DAWS: All 64-bit VST3/AU compatible DAWs. Please note: Mixcraft 9 and Mixcraft 9 Pro is not supported
- Product code: 1436-1013