Composers Desktop Project Forum

I try with TOOLS>MIDI TO SEQ and select a .mid file and I got this message "Failed to execute mf2t.exe". And I cant find documentation about what is posible with mid files. What is happening? what is possible with CDP, with a midi file?

Soundloom and Soundshaper dont let me aply the harmonic distortion. It says something like "data file doesnt exists" I tried to edit the parameters but always says error. Some suggestion?

I remember older versions of soundshaper that had a cross synth command. Is it possible to add it in ss version 6? where can I found it?

the default directory of saved ana files in Soundloom is C:/cdp8/_cdp, how to change it?

In Soundloom almost all effects using FoFs requires a txt files for certain parameters. But I dont know what to write in that file. May someone write a default text for that file? Thanks.

Hi, I am an experimental noisician. This is my first work using CDP software, is just a sketch but I am publishing to get recomendations from other users since I found very difficult to manage the softwares but I suspect that it has infinite potential to alterate the sound.
So, I am going to explain what I did.
I recorded the audio of this scene from an anime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE-qmHdZIKU&list=FLkeJityYNFJZmCTbKu66AnQ&index=15

in 10 different dubs (italian, english, german, chinese, japanese, french, tagalog, latin spanish, iberic spanish and korean). At first my goal was to create a fussion between two or more langauges for explore the results in terms of accents mixed or variations on voices combinations. So I used Soundloom, then morf and interpolate harmonics. I couldnt find the correct parameters so after run it I click on ok (I know this isnt right but it was the best I could do) I notice that the resulting sound is different if the order of the 2 spec files is also different, so I recorded the error sample in the 90 combinations posibles. After this, I used SoundShaper, spectral, reshape, accumlate and applied this effect in all samples. The parameters was decay 0.01 and no variation on gliss. Through this I got more than 1 hour and half of sound. I compressed the high frequencies and selected the best parts of the samples. After this I ordered it with a criterion that I cant explain but it appears to me that sounds good. It is a long track but it is possible to make and idea of what it is with 5 minutes of listening.

Here it is in wav:

https://archive.org/details/hado-navarro-sketch-1_202406

I hope you like it and I expect critics.

maybe is a dumb question but I found very complex the interface of sound shaper. My problem is this: I dont know how to conect 1 file to another to make an hybrid of them. I constantily receive this messages like "there is no A_2", and other things. May someone explain me how to do it? I presume it will resolve other problems with the combinations of 2 files. Thanks.

hi, I am newbie using Soundshaper 6. I have a problem trying to get results with spectral process. I click on cell a_1 and select in menu "load soundfile", I choose a wav file and it appears not in the cell but in the rectangle up. Then I click cell a_2 and choose another wav file. The second file replaces the first in the rectangle. I click again in cell a_1 and choose SPECTRAL. The situation in all efects is that the infile 2 it isnt choosen, it says "none". So, how to add infile 2? The pink window for load the second file doesnt appears. Please help.

hi i am newbie on cdp soundshaper. I found impossible to process effects that requires two files. When I select the second file source, automatically it deletes the first one. It is drive me crazy. Can someone explain me, step by step, how to perform a cross synthesis for example? I know that requieres to convert wav to ana, but beyond that, I can t figure more. Do I need to use the file pool? buy how? Help please.

I have windows 7, I intalled CDP first and after that I unziped sounshaperlite in the main folder, but when I click soundshape.exe, nothing happens, the comand has no reactions, any sugestion? I am ver ansious for use this software, thanks.