Can anyone help me with an ARP for Cthulhu?

Started by mccaine

mccaine

i wanna try to re-create the arp which is played here right from the beginning with cthulhu but fail to manage it as i suck with identifying notes yet :(.

i would appreciate it a lot! :)

steve_xfer

Thats not what I would consider an arp but rather a sequence, you could do it with Cthulhu but there's really no point.

You should do that sort of thing in a piano roll, "step note entry" is the classic way to do those sorts of industrial dirges (+ play lots of octaves).

this is an approximation after a quick listen
http://www.xferrecords.com/duda/temp/seq4u.mid

mccaine

ahhhhh you are just awesome! just purchased Cthulhu! :) THANKS!!!!

hmhmhmmm, ok i guess i need to google "sequence vs. arp". cause i always thought sequences are arps, so arps are just making it easier to not to have paint all notes again and again.

lsc9x

I struggled with this for a while myself!

  • A sequence is just a series of steps, or notes.  For example, when you put notes into the piano roll, technically that is a sequence.  It's a MIDI sequence of notes.  You can also have "steps" in a sequence of LFO settings and get a similar result by adjusting the note value of the steps in said LFO.  In the second case, you can "fake" playing a series of notes by setting the LFO in steps with a note value for each step, and then using that LFO to control the pitch of an oscillator.

- An arp (or arpeggio), on the other hand is a specific type of sequence and usually revolves around the notes contained in a chord.  For example, if you play a chord with 4 notes, an arpeggiator will play those 4 notes sequentially instead of all the notes at once, like you would have in a basic chord.

  • You CAN do arpeggios in the main piano roll of your DAW, but it's tedious and time consuming, which makes it VERY tedious to experiment, so it's often a lot easier to use an arpeggiator (like Cthulhu, which is an EXCELLENT arpeggiator) so that you can play around with different patterns, different chords etc. in REALTIME, and then once you have something you like, all you have to do is draw one (or more) "control note(s)" of that chord (a chord slot in Cthulhu) and it will play the whole arpeggio you set up.

Hope this helps!

mccaine

I struggled with this for a while myself!

  • A sequence is just a series of steps, or notes.  For example, when you put notes into the piano roll, technically that is a sequence.  It's a MIDI sequence of notes.  You can also have "steps" in a sequence of LFO settings and get a similar result by adjusting the note value of the steps in said LFO.  In the second case, you can "fake" playing a series of notes by setting the LFO in steps with a note value for each step, and then using that LFO to control the pitch of an oscillator.

- An arp (or arpeggio), on the other hand is a specific type of sequence and usually revolves around the notes contained in a chord.  For example, if you play a chord with 4 notes, an arpeggiator will play those 4 notes sequentially instead of all the notes at once, like you would have in a basic chord.

  • You CAN do arpeggios in the main piano roll of your DAW, but it's tedious and time consuming, which makes it VERY tedious to experiment, so it's often a lot easier to use an arpeggiator (like Cthulhu, which is an EXCELLENT arpeggiator) so that you can play around with different patterns, different chords etc. in REALTIME, and then once you have something you like, all you have to do is draw one (or more) "control note(s)" of that chord (a chord slot in Cthulhu) and it will play the whole arpeggio you set up.

Hope this helps!

Thanks a lot mate for the explanations, those helped me a lot to understand!!!! *thumbs up* :)