Snow Audio has introduced Chords For Cthulhu – a repository of 3500 chords for Xfer Records Cthulhu MIDI chord and arp module.
Arranged in progressions and loosely sorted by key, Chords For Cthulhu is designed to:
- Inspire song ideas
- Escape same old playing patterns
- Provide easy harmony access for non-keyboard players
- Allow for effortless experimentation
Route Cthulhu to output to your synth of choice, load up to 100 chords at a time from one of the 35 presets banks, and add instant harmonies to any project.
Here’s a video demo:
Chords for Cthulhu is available for $7 at the Snow Audio site.
It’s like they’ve taken the most challenging, rewarding and gratifying creative work and made it practically automatic!! Thanks for saving us all that trouble! 😉
Seriously, Cthulhu does some like a pretty fascinating tool. There’s something kind of boundary pushing about it. In essence, it pushes the boundary of plagiarism a little bit. There are lots of ways they have lifted various patterns from “great works” and deconstructed them for use in new music. On one hand it seems a little like cheating, but on the other hand, it’s pretty clever; and appears to yield musically satisfying results.
Cthulhu doesn’t commit plagiarism. People commit plagiarism.
This seems like a natural progression of technology to me–years back, when I was learning guitar I used to have a little book with just about every conceivable guitar chord laid out in tablature and standard notation, and another that had a bunch of common progressions to steal and repurpose. Heck, I still have a booklet that shows the piano fingerings for major, minor, m7, m9, suspended, and diminished, chords. While I prefer working from printed material, which can be stuck on a wall or a music stand while you’re dicking around with synths, making the leap to a piece of software that actually plays them for you doesn’t seem like any real creative difference. I mean, I record and quantize all my MIDI notes anyway.
I’m not going to buy it, but it seems like a much better solution than a sample pack or loop set.
one note you have to have the program for this which is 39