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Quote from: Robert Fraser on December 04, 2024, 04:03:35 PMHi Alessandro,

I don't really understand the problem, but it so happens I've been trying to get your Wineskin version up and running on the MAC without success. I'll email you now and if you could help me get that going, I'd be very grateful. Then I think I should be able to answer your question and any other issues, because I'll have the same system as you to test things.

Robert

Dear Robert,
We have the same computer so it should work.
Here two versions, one with Wine

And another with the new version of wine called Kegworks:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kbQ2GMeS6_TNReeQsxWcUBpxNpz72m0Z&usp=drive_fs
Both versions have been extensively tested by my students on bot M1, M2 and old Intel Mac Machine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kf9jEwxDrsj_y34dt1vIlNN7bSAHNFJS/view?usp=sharing
1) they all boot
2) they all fail using the preview function (failure upon rendering the chosen one)
3) they all fail copying cells
4) they all fail restoring saved patches (missing source file) and if you chose a new source file it does not rerun properly

I'm pretty sure it's a copy problem as it's what it seems to be in common to all the problems.
All the problems are 100% consistent and happens every time

Thank you for your precious help,
My students are pretty enthusiast about CDP...
A.

Dear colleagues

I've started finally a full professorship position at the Conservatory of Piacenza, in Italy, teaching electroacoustic and audiovisual composition. Of course I introduced CDP/Soundshaper to my first year course and it's always astonishing to see the great response young people have when they face a non-standard DAW/Plugin centric tool.
I'm running WINE wrapped versions of Soundshaper because they all have Macs and everything goes fine beside two things:

1) when you use the useful "preview" function then the chosen file don't get rendered and is missing
Here is the error message:

C:\windows\system32>copy C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_5.* C:\CDPR8\Temp\~A_4.*
Invalid name.
Invalid name.
Invalid name.
C:\windows\system32>erase C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_-1.*
C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_-1.*: File Not Found
C:\windows\system32>for /l %K in (1, 1, do (
copy C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_5_c%K.* C:\CDPR8\Temp\~A_4_c%K.*
)
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.

2) when I reload the whole patch, the source vile A~0 for example, is always missing.

Dear Robert,
I was not able to send a screenshot with detailed error message cause apparently the image embedding on the forum did not work, I'm sending you a mail.
Thanks again,
Alessandro

Quote from: Robert Fraser on May 06, 2024, 05:20:20 PM
When you mentioned the "SETUP PROBLEM" message, it's a pity you didn't list the apparently missing folders. The message means that the value (folder-name) assigned to each of these listed folders is invalid - the folder does not exist.  Several of them are read in from the textfile Soundshaper.cfg - I'm wondering if your student copied an old Soundshaper.cfg file from somewhere and the program is looking for the wrong folders? (It's impossible to tell without the list of missing directories.)  However the one that could be faulty here is actually a fixed one: namely Soundshaper's \BAT sub-folder. If that were wrong for any reason, Soundshaper couldn't read the CmdData file and therefore the parameter pages would show junk instead of proper labels or ranges, exactly as you report.

Quote from: Robert Fraser on May 04, 2024, 05:49:28 PM
"Soundshaper works very fine on WINESKIN port for MAC"
This could be very important for MAC users - I looked up Wineskin, but found different versions and I'm not sure which to download. Any help you can give on this, and how to use etc., would be hugely appreciated.

Dear Robert! I'm actually very happy too being able to port Soundshaper 6 to MacOs (ARM Based!!!) using Wineskin! I still think it's non optimal compared to a native Mac version because, given the concept and structure of wineskin bottle I still can't figure out how to connect a browser or pdf reader to open help directly from Soundshaper.
Anyway here the build I did on my ARM M2 Mac : (In another machine I have builds for Mac Intel, if you need I can send)

https://ln5.sync.com/dl/696565420/c7k9sk2b-94x6e6v6-iimcqf3z-9dgh85xg

I'm using this version of Wineskin:

https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer
that I install via Homebrew

Let me know If I can give further assistance,
Alessandro

Hello, thanks for keeping the community alive.
I'm teaching CDP as part of my Electroacoustic Composition course in Mantova Conservatory (Italy). Actually Soundshaper works very fine on WINESKIN port for MAC but I have problem with a student with a Windows PC.
After installation, which goes without any problem, running any Soundshaper command brings out a glitched interface with many incoherent sliders with strange parameter names (DLbl1, etc.) and the error "SCROLLBAR PROPERTY OUT OF RANGE".
Also on subsequent re-opening of Soundshaper I get "-----SOUNDSHAPER SETUP PROBLEM...." with missing folders like when CDPR folder is unaccessible (but I swear, it's there, unmoved)