Cajon and Bongo
- 7500+ Samples / 0.7GB
- 8 Instruments (4 Bongos, 2 Cajon Drums, 2 CJ Snares)
- 3 Ensembles (Bongo, Cajon, & Combi Ensembles)
- Stack Articulations To Create Your Own Ensemble
- 8 Custom Presets
- New Intuitive GUI
- New Front-Face FX and Mod-Sequencer
- Delivered by Download
- Kontakt 5.8.1 Full Retail (or later) Required
Percussion for All
The history behind The Cajon and Bongo is one of darkness and despair. A wooden box with a sheet of wood nailed on as the sixth side acting as the striking surface, the Cajon Drum originated from Slaves of West and Central African origin. The Cajon is a highly featured instrument in Cuban music, which also traditionally contains the Bongo. The Bongo was also brought from Africa to Cuba by slaves, and both are often featured in salsa, rumba, changui, and other traditional styles. The modern adaptation of the Cajon is often found in Spanish flamenco music; however, this is relatively new. The Cajon was introduced by the flamenco master, Paco De Lucia, during the 1970s and is now a standard instrument in Spanish guitar music.
We decided to explore both instruments extensively by sampling two sets of professional Cajons (snare and non-snare) and three sets of professional Bongos (small, medium, and large). We recorded the drums as ensembles, divisi, and individual solo instruments, allowing you to build your own custom ensemble size. We have also sampled both types of instruments close and dry, using hands, fingers, mallets, sticks, and brushes. We made sure to cover a massive range of different playing surfaces on all instruments. The Cajons were recorded with two different microphone positions (internal and external), and everything was sampled a second time, in a warm, slightly wet wooden percussion studio, to allow for more user flexibility. As a bonus, we’ve included a special section of ensemble hand claps, finger snaps, and hotrod stick clacks. All instruments in the library have 10 round robins per velocity layer, and up to 10 velocity layers each. This is the most detailed ensemble and solo Cajon and Bongo library in the history of sampling.
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Immediate Access and Stack Function
The Cajon and Bongo comes with 11 core articulations and 8 new presets. Everything is neatly organized in our custom browser, which holds all the available articulations in a single patch. We have also included our powerful stack function, which will allow you to stack multiple articulations together and gives you the ability to create your very own custom percussion ensemble with a few simple clicks.
Built-In Browser
The Cajon & Bongo contains a brand new and familiar GUI. The update has a huge list of new features including articulation stacking, panorama control, amp, pitch, filter, tone control, drive, filter LFO, filter effect, gates, pitch control, delay, and form control. The new GUI gives you much more control over the EQ with an A/B mixer and compressor.
Chaos Effects
The Cajon & Bongo contains our custom Chaos FX system, which allows you to do virtually anything you desire. You can create a step-based filter sequence, precision dial EQ, bit-crush & distort, stereo delay, or play with dual convolution reverbs. We also added our latest range of Impulse Responses for Textural Convolution Delays.
