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I've been trying multiple technologies to make an album with just code. My closest attempt was with CSound but its Score section sequencing is not quite flexible. I was really happy to see CDP files approach to control its programs. SEQUEN caught my attention straight away because it can be controlled by a table of data. Then I discovered Tabula Vigilans and explored its documentation. What I got from it is that TV programming language can be used to generate and read those files. That's a very cool approach but I saw algorithmic examples only.

I'm not planning to use TV for live performance or as an algorithmic music composition tool but as a DAW which means that I want to generate files to automate mixing and other parameters through code in a linear way. It's crazy I know but I more and more inclined to use code every day in my life.

What are the limitations of this approach?

Hi,
Thanks for reporting this bug. You're quite right: adding in the "Silence unpitched" option (-r flag) seems to produce an .ana output with an unreadable header. So we'll have to take a look at the program code for this and see what's (not) going on.
Robert F.

After 2 years I thought I should come back and give it another go, and I have found a fix! This will exclude all the stuff in 'CDP-InstallationNotesMac.pdf' for simplicity's sake.

Firstly, make sure Terminal has Full Disk Access in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access.

Fully quit Terminal and then try to tun the cdp8install.command again, making sure to bypass the Apple automatic prevention thing in Privacy and Security. If this doesn't work, I also had to do the following:

Open terminal and run the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/tmp
chmod 777 ~/tmp

When I installed it this time around I had another issue with the Home Directory 'tmp' folder as well, but doing the above steps also seemed to fix the bash_profile problem as well, maybe because of the Full Disk Access. I then opened up Soundloom and proceeded to bypass all the automatic Apple prevention popups for each process, and it seems to be working now.

I have this problem with MOVE formants by:
When a try to "move formants by" everything works good but not when I turn on the "Silence unpitched" square, then appears this message "ERROR: File ~X_0.ana either has unredable header, or is a textfile with a CDP reserved extension." So, I dont know what to do to correct this thing.

This thing occurs in Soundloom and SoundShaper too.

Probably using the 96K sample rate would do it.
I'm not sure if SL can handle that

Hi. I am getting this error message when trying to morph-bridge 2 ana files in soundloom: Invalid Data Incompatible original sample type in input file 'x' and 'y'. What is is?

Printscreen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iaKggPBIa4_hqxOK9IRE8n-_-dZ5ZQ7K/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hfR0h0nC2DaOZRMpPm3SqWiI9TfbD5A9/view?usp=sharing[

Imagine using Claude to revamp CDP CLI or SoundLoom. It could breathe new life into these tools. I've been spending hours in Bitlife, meticulously planning careers, but sometimes you just need a well-functioning command line. If LLMs could help us resurrect CDP's unique features, it'd be a win.

thank you simonk,

thats very helpful and a great place to start.

Im new to learning CDP and the learning curve is starting to soften (faster than I anticipated).

I imagine the Claude code output wouldn't be much of an improvement, but I am curious. I will try and report back any interesting results if they materialize.

I can face same problem in window 11

The CDP software has been Open Source for about twelve years.
So, you could download the source code & try for yourself.

https://github.com/ComposersDesktop/CDP8

Please let us know you you get on.