A demo is indeed planned, I need to be a little conservative and say it will be about a week.It does look interesting to me too. I hope they release a trial version, if only to test the functionality in my host. Most (all so far) of these arp style plugins don't function in Orion, and there doesnt' seem to be any effort to change that on the developer's part. Crying or Very sad
Here is the manual: http://www.xferrecords.com/duda/Cthulhu_Manual_v1_0.pdfIf anybody gets Cthulhu running in Logic, post here. I would normally buy anything XFER right away, but these kinds of plugs usually don't work in Logic well, or at all, or take some Environment hacking isn't always a great experience.
there are two methods to route MIDI in Logic. I would certainly agree it is clunky, since AU doesn't have a MIDI out mechanism. I've tried to make it the best I can, timestamping the MIDI packets so they arrive back to logic "on time" (delayed realtime, due to the way sound processes, but record in the correct place when printing your audio, +/- 1 tick usually)
The "fast" procedure is outlined second in the manual (add Cthulhu to an instrument track, and record-enable a different Instrument track with your destination synth). This method is simple and fine, except you can't "play" Cthulhu at this point (you have to use the piano roll). The other option (so you can play Cthulhu and have the MIDI get to another track) is outlined first in the manual, but it indeed takes about 7 mouseclicks and 2 keystrokes, which isn't ideal, but not terrible once you've done it a few times.
Indeed. Its on the way, will be up this weekend!A video demo would be essential IMHO
I haven't seen any crashes, I will certainly try to re-create this. My guess is a MIDI feedback loop (if the output of Cthulhu is routing to the input). I will be spending tomorrow trying to create any issues I can, if you have any way to recreate a crash with steps, I can locate and solve the problem!Next try but it crashes again, fortunately only Studio One this time.
As for the preset issue in Win x64, I'm pretty sure I know the cause of this (build issue), and will try to resolve it in the next several hours, so check the Cthulhu forum!
Cthulhu plays one arp at-a-time though it holds 12 different pattern-sets in memory at once (in one preset). Driving several other tracks as in a Synth Layer, well, this specific routing depends on the host. I'd be happy to try and clarify further but I'm not completely sure what you're going for and what host you use.What I'd like to know is can the different arps be used individually to trigger different instruments on separate tracks, ie. use Cthulhu on one track, trigger the chords from there, and then have it manage arps driving several other tracks.
Thanks for the nice words!This is a deep and intriguing tool - exploring it with the manual open is a good idea, I've noticed.
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