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CDP has only a fixed standard or "default" installation, which is in the user's home directory (as provided by the command shell "zsh" each time the Terminal app is launched, or a new shell Window is opened). The all-important PATH configuration assumes this. In the Finder is is shown by the little house icon, with the name chosen when running the machine for the first time -  = your User Name. Putting the whole CDPr8 folder in /Documents means that the PATH for command line users is then wrong, likewise also the file which tells Soundloom where the software is - hence the error messages. This can be fixed by hand editing the required hidden text files (see the document "Manual Install" for details), but we would strongly recommend that for the usual case of a single user on a single machine the software is indeed installed as per the README file etc, in your home directory. Whatever the CDP system might be, it is not "a document", and therefore "Documents" is not an appropriate location for it all.

Attempting to build on linux from the latest source on github.

I've tried building following the instructions in the building.txt file. When I run the final 'make' command it fails at 99% with an error that it can't find pa_ringbuffer:
src/CDP8/dev/externals/paprogs/paplay/paplay.c:75:10: fatal error: pa_ringbuffer.h: No such file or directory
   75 | #include "pa_ringbuffer.h"

I am very noobish with cmake, but I had a look in the CMakeLists.txt file and it has this, which contains the folder where the pa_ringbuffer.h file is (..portaudio/src/common):
include_directories(../../include ../include ../portaudio/include ../portaudio/src/common /usr/local/include)
Anyone know why it's complaining it can't find it? I've also tried copying it into one of the other folders (../include) and it still says it can't find it.
Any ideas?

Hello,
You may have already found this -

https://www.composersdesktop.com/pdf/tvinfopgnew.pdf

 I think Archer has used TV quite a bit, I'll ask.






 

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

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.

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.