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I'm afraid life (preparing for CDP8) got in the way here too! No further progress on updating the Creative Sound Design tutorials, I'm afraid, but I should be able to complete this task from late October. I can post a notice to the Forum when done.

When the user selects a datafile, Soundshaper looks in a default location (folder) for an appropriate file and displays it if it exists. In the case of an Invert-Pitch Map, no such file has been supplied, so there is no missing folder.

One reason for not supplying a template file in this case is that the data would be rather specific to the sound you would want to invert and how you personally would want to warp the intervals. The file itself is easy enough to write: if, say, you wanted every semitone rise to go down 11 semitones, you would write 1 -11 (the data is paired). and if you also wanted every descending semitone to go up eleven semitones, you would enter: -1 11.
 
 

I was in communication with Robert about this. Im Frank, fbfrankb5 at gmail, I never got around to doing the lessons for the terminal in oSX. Life got in the way.  I re-downloaded the lessons and Im ready to get going with it. Robert, your old email doesn't work. Were there updates to the Course Materials for the CreativeSoundDesign class?  If so, I'm all for an update. If not, I'll just go through these texts. There seems to be about 20 in all. I'll let you know how it goes.

I had a stab at compiling CDPv8 on an M2 Mac Mini and got as far as the final "make" command without any problem but then got:

In file included from /Users/pmj/CDP8/dev/newsfsys/sfsys.c:157:
/Users/pmj/CDP8/dev/newsfsys/sffuncs.h:203:2: error: "Unknown byte order for this processor"
#error  "Unknown byte order for this processor"
 ^
/Users/pmj/CDP8/dev/newsfsys/sffuncs.h:207:2: error: "Internal: can't be both MSB and LSB"
#error  "Internal: can't be both MSB and LSB"
 ^
2 errors generated.
make[2]: *** [dev/newsfsys/CMakeFiles/sfsys.dir/sfsys.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [dev/newsfsys/CMakeFiles/sfsys.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

If anyone knows how to get past this I'm happy to try again.

Hi Phoenix,
The rows in Soundshaper's patch grid are chains of processes, each going from left to right. So your source should appear in A_0, not A_1, and when you've processed it, the output will be in A_1. (A_2 would be for the output of the next process, if any, not for the second input.) For your second input, place the cursor on cell B_0 and drag your second soundfile onto the screen (or use the file selector). Click again on cell A_0 and select the process that requires a second input. A red "ADD INPUT" box should appear. Click on cell B_0 to select it and click OK in the red box. If your process is spectral, B_0.wav will be automatically converted to B_0.ana behind the scenes.

Set your parameters on the parameter page and click RENDER to return to the main page. The output should be in cell A_1. For a spectral process, this will be colour-coded aqua and should again be auto-converted back to .wav to play it. However, you can also hit F9 to do an explicit ana-wav conversion, if you like. This would be worth doing if you save the process as a patch, for example.

Hope this helps.
Robert F.