Composers Desktop Project Forum

>I do get a lot of errors saying that it can't find the dsp process , and or that a new version of CDP is coming out and the process can't be executed

Your screenshot shows a message which comes up when there's a CDP error. Some of these can be rather obscure, but they're mostly down to incorrect parameter settings. When they occur, they are beyond the scope of Soundshaper and derive from the underlying CDP software. Your settings of a frequency split at 500Hz should normally be OK. (I've just tested it with a stereo input, with no problems.) I'm not aware of specific problems with Accumulate; however, if you want to send me the details of the sound source and parameter values used, I'll be happy to look into it.

I'm sorry you've had the inconvenience of not being able to access the forthcoming CDP8 processes yet, but unfortunately CDP8 is not quite ready for general release. In a further release of Soundshaper (6.03), which should out any day now, menu items which lead to a CDP8 process have been disabled. (A tiny number of CD8 functions, which are implemented as modes of an existing process, may still generate the message you quote, however.)   

Regarding the tutorial - clearly these things are written at different times by different authors and the descriptions can unfortunately become a little outdated. The CDP Distort suite deals with wavesets (as described in the documentation and help screens) and it was felt that this menu title better reflected the waveset functions as a whole. We do try to keep the documentation up to date, though, and thank you for pointing out this discrepancy.

Hi, here's my first 2 compositions made with CDP.  They both focus mainly on using Time Stretch and Accumulate to slow down short samples from my modular synth setup 25 or 50 or 120 times.

All of my work is based on recursive modulation, which is why I chose the artist name Ouroboral for this kind of work.

The first piece is 8 minutes long and the second is about an hour and 15 minutes.  (Once you slow sounds down 120x, long compositions become a real possibility!)

All of my work tends to be experimental, meditative, and sometimes abrasive.  That's another way of saying that I realize not everybody will feel like it's their kind of thing.

I'd love to hear other people's efforts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoKMcaSHAw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq09oYPbMa8



I was sad to see that the links to SoundCloud tracks that other people posted are not working anymore. I hope they'll post new links (or new work!).

all best regards to everybody.

Christian

Another great video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOAJaMxvlME

Thanks for your enthusiasm Christian !

Soundshaper 6 has now been released.  This is a major upgrade, designed to improve workflow.

The main changes are to the parameter page, which now has a preview facility, allowing the user to quickly experiment with and compare many different parameter settings before choosing one. It also has a soundfile display, mirroring that on the Main Page, with loop and marker times that can be transferred to and from breakpoint data files. There is a tighter integration with the Graph-Edit page, which also has a soundfile display. Full details of the new features are supplied with the program, and the manual has also been revised.

To download the program, please visit www.soundshaper.net

Hello!

I think I have isolated the problem trying different variations in paths, trying to eliminate various possibilities. As far as I can see, the problem for me is that if the outfile is a path greater than or equal to 6 directories deep it fails. In this case it just ouptuts the first slice. For example when these are paths for outfile;

/Users/seanodalaigh/Documents/composition/2022/ - - - > this works fine

/Users/seanodalaigh/Documents/composition/2022/BLUE/ - - - > this fails (it is invariant to the CAPS)

I wonder if anyone can reproduce this?

Thanks ,
S