Mesoamerica Bundle by Chiqui Audio

Dive deep into the rich sonic tapestry of ancient civilizations with the Chiqui-Audio Mesoamerica Bundle, a definitive collection of six KONTAKT libraries designed to infuse your music with unparalleled ethnic and organic textures. This comprehensive bundle features sounds from pre-Hispanic instruments and voices used by iconic Mesoamerican civilizations, including the Mayans, Olmecs, Teotihuacans, and Mexicas.

What's Included in This Ancestral Sound Journey?

The Mesoamerica Bundle encompasses six meticulously crafted KONTAKT libraries, each offering unique sounds and cultural insights:

• El Atecocolli: Capture the majestic sounds of seashell horns (atecocollis), an aerophone vital to ancient Mexican cultures for rituals, dances, ceremonies, and calls for meetings. This library delivers high-quality sounds from marine snails, reflecting their significant use.
• El Hompak: Discover the expressive range of the Mayan trumpet (hompak), recognized as one of history's oldest wind instruments. This pre-Hispanic instrument was famously described in 1557 by Bernal Díaz in "True History of the Conquest of New Spain" as long, hollow trumpets that emitted the "sound of the Devil". Beyond its historical context, this library offers a wide variety of uses and sounds, including rhythmic patterns akin to contemporary beatbox.
• La Ocarina: Explore the expressive range of six clay ocarinas of different ranges, an important pre-Hispanic aerophone played by ancient Mexican cultures like the Mayans in public spaces, elite cultural events such as the juego de pelota, rituals, and parties. This library also includes unique atmospheric ocarina sounds like wind, jaguar roars, and bird calls, along with whistles that produce birdsong or short melodies.
• Las Percusiones & Las Percusiones SFX: Command a powerful arsenal of handmade pre-Hispanic percussion instruments used by ancient Mexican cultures to create rhythmic patterns or atmospheric ambiences. This includes the authentic sounds of drums, scrapers, bells, rain sticks, rattles, maracas, along with specific instruments like the huehuetl, teponaztli, tenabaris, ayacachtli, tzicahuaztli, and coyolli. The Las Percusiones SFX library provides additional samples that resemble nature sounds, such as rainstick, tambor tormenta, and tambor océano.
• Las Voces: Incorporate authentic Nahuatl voices from two male and two female expert singers. This library contains some of the most used syllables in the Nahuatl language (such as "hue," "xi," "po," "tzin," "tlan," and "tl") as well as two spoken words. Nahuatl was one of the main indigenous languages that expanded within the Mexica empire and is still used in parts of Mexico today.

Key Features Designed for Producers & Composers:

Each library within the Mesoamerica Bundle is built with the modern music creator in mind:

• Intuitive Design & Powerful Effects: All libraries boast a striking, intuitive design that includes a comprehensive suite of effects and editing tools such as equalizer, compressor, saturation, reverb, delay, and modulation effects, empowering you to sculpt your desired sound. The Las Voces library specifically includes a choral ensemble effect.
• Unrivaled Realism: Experience highly detailed performances with recorded breaths, calling sounds, air sounds, tapping of the instrument, and drone sounds, ensuring a sound as close to a real performance as possible.
• Extensive Articulations: Unlock a vast palette of expression with a variety of articulations controlled by key switches for ease of use. Articulations vary by instrument and include legato, staccato, vibrato, bends, cerbatana, tremolo, frullato, lip pressure, wah, up and down glissando, high and low yell, crescendo, decrescendo, vowels, sustain, chops, and whispers.
• Ready-to-Use Content: Jumpstart your creativity with twenty royalty-free MIDI rhythm loops included in the Percusiones library, as well as ten royalty-free rhythm patterns in MIDI format for El Hompak. The bundle also comes with twenty-nine factory snapshots across all libraries, allowing for quick sound design, including synth-like and atmospheric sounds.
• Cultural Immersion & Guidance: Delve into the history and use of each instrument with detailed user manuals that provide rich cultural information. The Nahuatl voices manual even includes Nahuatl words that can be formed and their meanings, along with the meaning of each syllable. These manuals also offer useful tips to reach the maximum potential of the libraries.
• Seamless Integration: The Mesoamerica Bundle is fully compatible with KONTAKT 6.3.1. It is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt player.

Technical Specifications & Expert Endorsements:

• Massive Sound Library: The bundle contains over 2.81 GB of uncompressed files, comprising a total of 2388 high-quality samples recorded at 48kHz, 24 bits.
• Optimized Performance: Requires approximately 7 GB of free hard drive space, and 4 GB of RAM or more is recommended for optimal performance. Individual library RAM usage is efficient, ranging from 5.98 MB (Las Percusiones SFX) to 0.96 GB (Las Voces).
• Industry Approval: The Mesoamerica Bundle comes highly praised by industry leaders:
  • Nestor M. Iencenella, a music producer, composer, and audio engineer recognized as one of the 13 most creative producers in Latin America, calls it "A collection of ancestral instruments and voices to make ethnic music or give your music an organic touch that we like so much".
  • Grammy-nominated reggae vocalist, songwriter, and music producer Lloyd Brown states, "They definitely have a place in my instruments template moving forward. Great value and highly recommended".
  • Music producer, mixing, and recording engineer Jorge Costa, who has worked with artists like Korn and Dr. Dre, hails it as "an excellent source of inspiration".

Bring the authentic sounds of Mesoamerican civilizations to your compositions. Elevate your music with the Chiqui-Audio Mesoamerica Bundle today!