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I replaced the file specfnu.exe but when I try to do some process that involves this command, a DOS window appears and the Avast antivirus jumps and blocks it. I don't know what to do; is it secure? do I need to disable the antivirus? Thanks.

"ps the capatcha on this forum is very difficult!"

Sorry about that, We've had significant amount of bad Actors, mostly Russian, getting signed up & posting junk. It's become considerably onerous & time consuming whilst trying to keep this an open space for CDP'ers.

Oh well....Onwards!

Hello again,

I didn't submit the synthtopia article - i've asked them to take it down since my colleague who submitted it prematurely without asking me and didn't give the right details :sigh.

Losing work/not being able to save is annoying i agree - cdp-plugin fix is incoming.

Oli

ps the capatcha on this forum is very difficult!

Hi Oli,
Welcome to the CDP forum!

Continuing a small conversation the we began on the Sound on Sound forum.

If you could please firstly fix the saving problem with the stand alone & Vst version I personally would be more likely to spend more time spotting bugs.
I did generate some nice output sounds yesterday but was ~really~ frustrated to loose them....

Also you may not have noticed that there is a partial announcement on Synthtopia that you might like to follow up on.
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2026/07/09/composers-desktop-project-cdp-features-hundreds-of-free-sound-design-tools/

Simon

Dear All,

I'm happy to share a new WASM port of CDP and a collection of tools built with it.

https://cdp-wasm-suite.github.io

I am cleaning up the code and will open source the LGPL cdp-wasm source code and CDP8 patches this week (the consumers are all open sourced already)

I have to say using CDP via cross platform WASM via node.js is really great.

I built a retro computing themed node-graph patcher frontend too:



It's an early alpha build - v0.1.0 - there will be bugs, please let me know if you find anything.

Best,

Oli Larkin
(Based in Berlin these days but formerly worked at the University of York Music department where CDP has some origins)

Provisional bugfix is now on Github - see RWDobson post under "Announce".

Some memory errors which prevented the program running to completion, have been fixed, for specfnu mode 8.

Specfnu handles all the processes under the Soundloom "Voice Box" (speech processing) option.

Revised binaries (zipped) for Mac and Windows are now on Github - look for the folder "BinUpdates/Jun2026" and proceed to the folder for your platform.

( go to github.com/Composersdesktop/CDP8)

Hey! Did you happen to record one file in mono and the other in stereo? I got that error once, realized I'd accidentally switched my mic input. Converting the stereo file to mono fixed it for me. Hope that helps!

Thanks you for reporting this. The fix, it has transpired, is small and simple, and will certainly be included in the next update to the app. I hope to complete the colour-coding of the instrument tree for the Mac as part of that. It has also been added to the source release on Github.

I found that the bug appears only to affect the GUI; all the required myriad text files are written, behind the scenes, such that if you simply Close the session and relaunch Soundloom, the new instrument duly appears as expected.  This is for the normal action of using "conclude". I have yet to test "Abort" separately (I always tend to regard that as a last resort), but since that throws the same error message, I would expect that to be covered by the same fix.

This issue has not been ignored and a solution is on its way.