What Nightmares May Come: by Ben Paturzo
Referring to Rurik Leffanta’s intelligence and creativity as lively and playful is rather the same as calling Mount Everest a “quaint hill.” Who else can you imagine on this sweet, blue orb would even attempt to fashion a device that replicates the vocal sounds and characteristics of the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos? Old Cthulhu himself must be smiling, if not for all the tentacles. One can well imagine Master Leffanta (xoxos) poring over his well-worn copy of the Necronomicon, distilling it’s unspeakable horror into the madness-inspiring blasphemous sounds of the Elder Thing. You have been warned.
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May 2011
The truth of the matter is xoxos used Lovecraft’s vivid description of his otherworldly creatures as a starting point for his newest VST, but going through the presets you will quickly learn that there are earthly horrors as well. For example, the preset in Figure 1, roar 3, could be a lion, a dinosaur, or perhaps the unholy offspring of Yog-Sothoth, whom we know from eldritch lore, was kind of hoarse, what with all the chanting and such. There is the great old one preset to satisfy the worshipers of Shub-Niggurath, but there is also elder Yoda which sounds as if the Jedi warrior is coughing up a hairball out of time and space. Elder Thing is truly unique as is it’s creator.