Jon’s Cajons

This is a Schlagwerk 2inOne Cajon which I bought in 2014 with the intention of taking it busking. Unfortunately, I never got round to that and have instead been using it as an item of decorative furniture for the best part of a decade. I now finally own some microphones and an audio interface, and decided this underappreciated instrument should be my first step into the world of sampling.

This particular cajon is so called because it has removable snares. This means it can produce a modern snare cajon sound, but also a more traditional Peruvian cajon sound when the snares are removed. This library gives you both!

Featuring 5 different hits across various parts of the cajon, each with 8 round-robins and 2 velocity layers, and recorded separately with left and right hand. All samples have been recorded with snares in and snares out using two microphones (an SM57 at the back, and an SL75C at the front), giving a total of 640 individual samples. The samples have been edited and cleaned up in Reaper, and are provided in Kontakt 6 and Decent Sampler formats.