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The Story of Oro
"Oro" celebrates the transformative journeys of musical instruments across various contexts and genres, inspired by Bogotá, Colombia. This second instalment in the Portals series reinterprets the significance of precious metals in Colombia, drawing from the legend of El Dorado. The instrument collection includes metal percussion, modern valved brass, and a renowned pipe organ, with both analog and digitally processed samples, enriched by immersive nature ambiences. With the acoustic synthesis engine, MNDALA 2, Oro provides next-generation tools to evolve musical traditions, featuring sounds played by local artists who infuse their unique styles and techniques.
From military band traditions to modern pop and dance music, brass instruments are pivotal in genres like Chirimía, Porro, Fandango, and Salsa. Oro also connects to the history of church organs in the continent, whose music was initially played by brass ensembles. This collection reflects the diversity and creativity of Colombia's musical landscape, offering a revisionist take on the legend of the Golden Kingdom. Oro is an invitation to continue creating and transforming music with respect for tradition, symbolized through animated Perform View artwork inspired by the land's true essence: woven textiles, bright colours, water, and syncretism.
Proprietary MNDALA 2 engine
A multi-dimensional audio engine built for the future, this bespoke playback engine features a myriad of sound-shaping tools and controls to carve out Oro exactly the way you want. With no additional software required, MNDALA 2 runs in any DAW capable of hosting VST3 and AU plug-ins. Built over years of research and development in reproducing extremely high-definition audio, you can dive into the ultrasonic textures within these ancient winds and percussion instruments in never before accessible performance-ready format. A first of its kind, MNDALA 2 is built to recreate the ultrasonic samples at incredibly high fidelity: up to 24-bit and 96kHz. This allows for extreme pitching and manipulation of the sounds while retaining a resolution never before available in this form.
It's not just the immaculate audio quality that sets MNDALA 2 apart, it's the creativity and flexibility with which you can manipulate your instruments. Six fully-featured samplers let you load whichever instruments you want, with independent processing across all six channels. Customising the sound of each channel can be achieved with the onboard effects slots. Choose between 35 different effects, ranging from delay, reverb, saturation, modulation, filters and EQs where up to five can be loaded per instrument sampler each!
Each instrument has been recorded in a multi-microphone setup and MDNALA 2 gives you access to the volumes of each microphone, letting you adjust the spatial positioning per sampler, making it simple to create space in a mix. Additionally, you will find global modulators, custom modular effects routing and complex sequencing per sampler, offering a near-endless amount of customisation and automation for your sound over time. Controlling all of this processing power is condensed down into three simple performance controls. The three Axis-animated performance controls let you take control of up to 62 parameters simultaneously when mapped to your favourite controller, letting you take a hands-on approach to mixing and customising your sound.
What's included
- Brass:
- Trumpet: Long, Short, Fall, Glissando Down, Glissando Up, Vibrato, Frulatto, Shake
- Trombone: Medium, Short, Pullm Fall, Glissando Up, ‘Goat’, Bend Up, Grupetto, Frulatto, Fast Scoop
- Sousaphone: Medium, Short, Staccato, Frulatto, Percussive Shot, ‘Thump’, ‘Scream’, Multiphonic, Flutter
- Bombardino: Long, Short, Staccato, Frulatto, Glissando Up and Down, Appogiatura Up, Multiphonic
- Organ:
- Pipe Organ: Bombarda Pedal Long, Bombarda Pedal Short, Trumpet and Viola, Granlleno Long, Granlleno Short, Tutti Long, Tutti Short, Principal Nazardo Long, Muted Flute Long, Muted Flute Short, Keyboard II Long, Keyboard II Short
- Percussion:
- Surdo: Woodstick Hit, Flam, Rubber Hit, Woodstock Hit Mute
- Repique: Hit, Bounce, Flam
- Güira: Hit, Drag
- Cowbell: Hit Low, Hit High
- Hihat: Closed, Mid Open, Pedal Open
- Ride Cymbal: Hit Sustain, Hit Bell
- Crash Cymbal: Mute, Open
- Creatively processed:
- Pad
- Blown Sub
- Crushed Metal Lead
- Dark Lead
- Degraded Keys
- Distorted Lead
- Doom Organ
- Evolving Pad
- Memory Pad
- Shimmer Lead
- Transistor Organ
- Wire Transmission
- Soundscapes:
- Caribbean Seaside
- Jungle Night
- Jungle Sunrise
- Stream in the City Forest
- Tempered Morning Guacharacas
- Tempered Rain Night
- Tempered River Day
Features
- Over 170 presets designed to let you explore the full sonic range of the instrument
- 84 individual instruments
- Highly dynamic layers include 11 Round Robins and three dynamic layers per instrument
- Position your instrument in a virtual space with four blendable microphone channels
- 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
- Compatible with all major DAWs capable of hosting VST3 and AU plug-ins
- Runs on the proprietary MNDALA 2 engine, with no additional software required
- Map your MIDI controller to adjust the 3-Axis Universal Controls across all plug-in instances
- Industry-leading 384kHz/32-bit extended ultrasonic range sample quality
- Highly-efficient playback engine delivers 24-bit 96kHz audio resolution
Specifications
- Operating system: Windows & Mac (10.14+)
- Format: VST3, AU
- Number of instruments: 40 multi-sampled instruments
- File size: 7GB installed, 13GB for complete setup
- RAM: 8GB
- CPU: i5+, Apple M1
- Activation: Offline
- Supported DAWS: All 64-bit VST3/AU compatible DAWs. Please note: Mixcraft 9 Pro is not supported
- Product code: 1436-1016