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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.

Hi, I receive an error when trying to 'conclude' or 'abort' in the instrument window. So I am unable to return to the workspace window

I'm running SoundLoom 17.0.4E, just installed CDP8

can't read "dupl_mix": no such variable
can't read "dupl_mix": no such variable
    while executing
"if {$dupl_mix} {
# POSSIBLE REDUNDANT
set pmask [OnlyForMix]
} else {
set pmask [GetProgsmask]
}"
    (procedure "RestoreInslessSystem" line 20)
    invoked from within
"RestoreInslessSystem"
    (procedure "CreateIns" line 239)
    invoked from within
"CreateIns"
    invoked from within
".workspace.1.a.top.machcr invoke"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
    (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 23)
    invoked from within
"tk::ButtonUp .workspace.1.a.top.machcr"
    (command bound to event)

What's happening here is annoying, but it's not random—the error is basically telling you the analysis file is getting corrupted or misread when "Silence unpitched" is enabled.

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