Writing Easy Chords and Melodies using Cthulhu (Xfer) with Helsloot

OUT NOW: The Sound Of... Helsloot via mixtank.tv/pro...
In this exclusive entry in our ‘The Sound Of…’ series, Helsloot has created a comprehensive guide to the techniques you need to make powerful melodic techno and emotive progressive house.
Over the course of 131 minutes and 11 chapters, Helsloot covers everything you need to know from making beats, basslines and melodies, to synths, arrangement and mixdowns. It is an in-depth look at his entire production process which sees him deconstruct his recent single ‘When We Meet Again’ and will teach you essential skills to help you transform your sound, including:
How to write breathtaking melodic techno and progressive house
How to layer sounds to create a fuller and more complete production
How to be creative with MIDI and write unconventional melodies
How to master plugins like Xfer’s Cthulhu and Arturia’s Mini V3
How to improve your workflow technique by making your DAW and plugins work for you
With 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Amsterdam-based producer Thomas Helsloot is making serious waves on the melodic techno and progressive house scene with releases on labels like Get Physical, Domino, This Never Happened and Astralwerks, and most notably ‘Because You Move Me’ - his game-changing collab with Tinlicker on Armada.
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Just the 5 seconds where you showed how to setup routing was gold. Been bashing my head against the wall. Never realised I had to have both channels armed.

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Love the demonstration, and thanks for helping me learn more about Cthulu.

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awesome vid! thanks for making. Try using a gate on your mic when recording. There's hissing throughout the video

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cool thanks

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If you click on the 'speaker' in the top left, it'll mute the internal test synth in Cthulu. At least it does so on the windows VST version. 😀

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Question: Is it possible to create full scale from one chord? Could I import chord C1 sus2 note and can it extent to full scale on 2 octaves? or is t possible to fill each octave per different chord progression in scale ?

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