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Old 03-21-2014, 06:32 PM   #1
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Default Cthulhu routing in Reaper???

OK, after more than a couple of hours I am ready for the gas pipe. I have read a couple of responses about Reaper and Cthulhu but have gotten nowhere.
Does anyone have any actual experience with this beast, i.e. getting it to actually work???
I have tried opening cthulhu as a virtual instrument and then a separate instance of a virtual instrument on a separate track, then sending the cthulhu track to the vsti track. I can hear the track being played but the cthulhu device isn't doing much.
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All suggestions and help would be appreciated like water on the desert!
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Old 03-21-2014, 10:21 PM   #2
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Ok. Take a deep breathe. Now, put Cthulhu BEFORE your chosen instrument on the SAME track. In Cthulhu, select a chord of choice from the dropdown in the bottom half. Now feed Cthulhu a Midi input of some sort I.e. press a key on your Midi keyboard. You should now hear it working. Good luck. Report back if you have further troubles.
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Old 03-22-2014, 09:13 AM   #3
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OK, tut....deep breath taken.
I'll try your advice and get back to you one way or another.
Thanks in advance...hope it works.
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Old 03-22-2014, 09:22 AM   #4
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OK, after more than a couple of hours I am ready for the gas pipe.
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Ok. Take a deep breathe.
Perhaps not the best advice


Just do the rest of what tut said.
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Old 03-22-2014, 10:26 AM   #5
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Update:
Followed tut's instructions and this beast has been tamed!!!
Works just like a magic charm. Many thanks.
I see no way to increase rep or anything so let's just say IOU 1 beer.
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Old 04-19-2014, 02:35 PM   #6
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Ok. Take a deep breathe. Now, put Cthulhu BEFORE your chosen instrument on the SAME track. In Cthulhu, select a chord of choice from the dropdown in the bottom half. Now feed Cthulhu a Midi input of some sort I.e. press a key on your Midi keyboard. You should now hear it working. Good luck. Report back if you have further troubles.
Could you give a step by step. I'm trying to get cthulu to work in kontakt and all my soft synths. This is a pain!
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Old 04-22-2014, 06:42 AM   #7
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TWO SEPERATE TRACKS

CTHUHLU TRACK 1 CLICK "I/O"> "SEND" CHOOSE SYNTH USED IN TRACK TWO
NEXT: GO TO MIDI DROPDOWN
INPUT MIDI> MAP INPUT TO CHANNEL> CHANNEL 1
ENABLE RECORD
RECORD MONITORIN "ON" (GREEN)
SYNTH TRACK 2 INPUT MIDI> MAP INPUT TO CHANNEL> CHANNEL 1
DISABLE RECORD
RECORD MONITORING "ON" (GREEN)

This was such a pain in the arse to figure out. Hope this helps somone!!!
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Old 08-20-2016, 10:51 AM   #8
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Ok. Take a deep breathe. Now, put Cthulhu BEFORE your chosen instrument on the SAME track. In Cthulhu, select a chord of choice from the dropdown in the bottom half. Now feed Cthulhu a Midi input of some sort I.e. press a key on your Midi keyboard. You should now hear it working. Good luck. Report back if you have further troubles.
Thank you, that worked perfectly, for Cthulhu, and other arpegiators.
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Old 08-31-2016, 09:23 AM   #9
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Another approach that worked for me is to put Cthulhu on the input FX of the track.

No muss, no fuss.

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Old 08-31-2016, 10:46 AM   #10
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Anyone having stability problems? Nothing crashing but boy is it rough on cpu if i dont print the midi files right away.

Figured id try here rather then starting another thread.

Windows 10, 12gb ram, 2.8ghz, everything 64 bit.
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Old 08-31-2016, 01:05 PM   #11
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Yes, stability issues here with Cthulhu (latest version) in Reaper - 64bit on OSX 10.11.6
Even worse than that you experience: i have frequent Reaper crashes when using Cthulhu.
I never ever experience crashes in Reaper, except when using Cthulhu
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Old 08-31-2016, 01:45 PM   #12
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Yes, stability issues here with Cthulhu (latest version) in Reaper - 64bit on OSX 10.11.6
Even worse than that you experience: i have frequent Reaper crashes when using Cthulhu.
I never ever experience crashes in Reaper, except when using Cthulhu
Glad to see im not the only one. I feel your pain. Belive me, it wants to crash.
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Old 08-31-2016, 02:15 PM   #13
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Thanks !

Quite remarkable ; other plugins from Xfer records i have are very stable in Reaper
(LFO Tool, Serum).
But Cthulhu is drama.

I am using similar plugins to replace cthulhu's functionality, like this one:

http://www.kirnuarp.com/

Development of this plugin is dead, so it seems, but it does the job very well and is stable for me in Reaper :0)
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Old 08-31-2016, 03:47 PM   #14
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Same here lfo tool is super stable.. we should probably contact the duda.
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Old 08-31-2016, 05:08 PM   #15
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Yes, stability issues here with Cthulhu (latest version) in Reaper - 64bit on OSX 10.11.6
Even worse than that you experience: i have frequent Reaper crashes when using Cthulhu.
I never ever experience crashes in Reaper, except when using Cthulhu
Are you on the latest version of Cthulhu? For OSX, it's v1.15e. On Win10, it's v1.15. So, there have been some tweaks to the OSX version. I'm on Win10, and have no stability issues.
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Old 08-31-2016, 09:45 PM   #16
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Hi !

Yes, i have version 1.1.5e for OSX installed too.
This version had some AAX version fixes, no mentioning of stability fixes.

I will send Steve from Xfer records a Crash Report, whenever Cthulhu crashes Reaper again.
He is always very helpful, great guy.
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http://www.kirnuarp.com/

Development of this plugin is dead, so it seems...
What makes you say this?

Just curious.


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Old 08-31-2016, 10:44 PM   #18
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Cause it has not been updated for a year or so, i think even longer.
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Old 09-28-2017, 02:03 AM   #19
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Hi all,

Searched on here as I’ve just bought Cthulu. Love the plug in, but yep – it’s crashing the first project I’ve used it in. Can’t say 100% yet it’s down to Cthulu but massive coincidence if it isn’t due to this plug in. Damn shame if it is.

In case you’re wondering, it’s a great utensil. The chord utility and the Arp. Both really well done and very handy
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Old 09-28-2017, 02:19 AM   #20
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I am on mac, using Reaper mac version.
Me 2 experiences quite regular Reaper crashes when using cthulhu.(latest version).
I have a feeling the culprit is cthulhu and not Reaper.

Or you on mac or windows ?
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Old 09-28-2017, 06:30 AM   #21
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I'm on Windows 10 and have been using Cthulhu for years and never had a single crash. I use it with Reaper and Ableton.

Maybe it's a Mac issue.
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Old 09-28-2017, 08:48 AM   #22
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Hi Vanhaze, yeah I'm Windows 7. Pretty sure Cthulu is causing the problem as nothing up to this point has caused Reaper to crash and I've been with Reaper for quite a long time now.
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Old 10-12-2018, 08:12 AM   #23
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I am surprised this is not mentioned alot here: Chthulu expects the MIDI input on channel 1. Selecting anything else breaks the "Chords" part for me. But the arpeggiator still works. To fix: for example you can put MIDI tool V2 before Chthulu in the fx chain and set the output channel in MIDI Tool to 1.
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Old 10-12-2018, 09:59 AM   #24
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Another approach that worked for me is to put Cthulhu on the input FX of the track.

No muss, no fuss.

tg
The benefit of this method is that its easy to record the actual notes being spat out by cthulhu, so you can tweak them or use them any other way you see fit... if you're like me who when using the chords might find a progression that "kind of" works, but needs tweaking because of how random the plugin can be...this is really helpful.
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