Nagual is a reactive polyphonic instrument built from rare Pre-Hispanic ceremonial sources. Collaborating with Ramiro Ramírez, one of Mexico’s most revered musicians in these traditions, we captured clay flutes, conch trumpets, wooden drums, ocarinas, and ritual whistles, then transmuted them into a living instrument where sources merge, morph, and respond to your touch in real time. Sources originally limited to single tones—now reactive, blendable, and fully performable.

Inside Nagual

Presets: 134 (Elements, Atelier and Artist)
Atelier Presets: 64
Artist Presets: 13
Sample Maps: 44
Size: 1.41 GB
Round Robins: Up to 10 RR
SSM™ powered samples: 44 (all sample maps)
Range: C1 – C5
Recording format: 384 kHz, 32-bit
Sample Format: .mntra Format / E.R.A (Extended Resolution Audio)
Multimic: Up to stereo 4 streams 

*Requires MNDALA V2.4.2 Free Engine
Works with all VST3 / AU / AAX compatible DAWs

Wind

• Cocouilotl (Hit, Frullato, Frullato Short, Redoble, Short)
  A prehispanic clay dove whistle with sharp, breathy bird cries and fluttering “coco-coco” trills—used in shamanic and ceremonial rites to honor the cocotli dove, invoke nature spirits, and drive trance.
• Flauta de Embolo
  Warbling, liquid bird song with pitch-shifting modulation as water moves internally, creating trance-inducing sounds for shamanic journeying
• Flautas de Texcatlipoca
  A prehispanic clay flute voiced for a very high register, producing a bright, narrow-band tone with strong upper partials; it’s commonly played with short, high-pressure attacks and rapid trills for clear, piercing projection in ceremonies associated with Tezcatlipoca, used to signal presence and cue ritual actions.
• Ocarina (Frullato, Frullato Short, Howl, Purepecha, Whisper)
  A prehispanic clay vessel flute (often animal-shaped) with a warm, hollow resonance that ranges from breathy “whisper” tones to wind-like sustained howls with audible upper harmonics, plus aggressive flutter-tongued frullato bursts—used in healing, meditation, and Purépecha ceremonial practice.
• Silvato de Viento (Long, Fade in Scream, Flutter, Frullato, Redoble, Scream)
  An prehispanic Aztec “death whistle” engineered for a sustained, piercing scream-like timbre — used in sacrificial and underworld (Mictlan) rites to cue transitions, intensify trance, and blur boundaries between life and death.
• Atekokolli (Giant-Long, Giant-Short, Big-Short, Mid-Short, Small-Short)
  An prehispanic conch-shell trumpet producing deep, resonant blasts—from bright, cutting small-shell calls to giant, sustained low rumbles with oceanic roar—used to announce ritual presence, and summon sacred energy from the four directions while honoring deities such as Tecciztecatl.

Percussion

• Cantaro (Hit, Side)
  Resonant prehispanic clay vessel percussion: struck for a pitched, ceramic ring or hit on the side for a drier, higher attack—used as textured rhythmic support in shamanic and ceremonial settings.

• Cuerno (Short)
  Bold, earthy horn blast from clay horn trumpet used in magical-religious ceremonies honoring agricultural cycles

• Huehuetl (Grande Hit,  Grande Stick, Medio Hit, Medio Stick)
  A prehispanic Aztec wooden vertical drum producing deep, resonant low strikes by hand or sharp, transient-rich stick attacks—used in danza, warfare, and ritual contexts to drive steady pulse and support altered-state ceremonial work.

• Tambor De Mar (Long, Mid, Short)
  Sustained or short rolling “wave” wash from a bead-filled sea drum, producing gentle cascading turbulence—used in prehispanic-style rain and water rites (sound healing contexts), invoking rain powers and underworld water symbolism.
• Teponaztli (Antler High Hit, Mallet Low Hit, Antler Low Hit, Muted Reso Hit, Metal Low Hit, Metal Reso Hit, Open Hit,  Side Hit)
  A prehispanic sacred slit drum (wooden idiophone) with two tuned tongues, producing contrasting high, bright resonant hits and deeper hollow strikes (open or damped), plus side-body impacts for extra texture—played with mallets/antler-like beaters in ritual and warfare signaling, including controlled midnight ceremonial patterns.