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"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. 

The PSOW (FOF) programs require a pitch-trace breakpoint file extracted using PTOBRK WITHZEROS.  And that requires a pitch file (.frq) extracted from a frequency analysis file (.ana), using REPITCH GETPITCH 1.  This is all better put in a little script (Windows CMD batch file or MacOS bash shell script).

Here are two similar scripts: the first kindly supplied by Richard Dobson for bash, and my own batch file (PC) based on Soundshaper. Both make use of arguments supplied on the commandline - particularly the infile and outfile names. Bash scripts have variables $1, $2 and so on, referring to the first, second etc. arguments; the equivalent in CMD batch files is %1, %2, etc.   Both scripts assume a mono input sound.

First, Richard's bash script frqtotext: note the usage "frqtotxt insndfile outtextfile", where outtextfile is the name of the pitch-trace file.

#!/bin/bash
echo frqtotxt.sh - shell script to prepare pitch-brkpnt-data file for
echo                use with a FOF-source file: lengths must match.
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
    then
        echo usage: frqtotxt insndfile outtextfile
        exit 1
fi
echo
echo pvoc anal 1 $1 infile.ana
pvoc anal 1 $1 infile.ana
echo repitch getpitch 1 infile.ana infilepchdummy.aiff infile.frq
repitch getpitch 1 infile.ana infilepchdummy.aiff infile.frq
echo ptobrk withzeros infile.frq $2 20
ptobrk withzeros infile.frq $2 20
echo Delete \(temporary\) files no longer needed:
echo rm infile.ana
rm infile.ana
echo rm infilepchdummy.aiff
rm infilepchdummy.aiff
echo rm infile.frq
rm infile.frq

Now the BAT version, which adds parameter values for the application PSOW STRETCH. In this example the file suffixes are in the script, so would not be supplied on the commandline:

REM %1 is input wav (just the name without .wav); %2 is the output wav (also without .wav)
REM %3 is amount of stretch; %4 is no. of grains
echo ***** PSOW STRETCH BATCH SCRIPT (PC) *****
echo off
REM  Convert wav to ana
pvoc anal 1 %1.wav %1.ana -c1024 -o3
REM Extract pitch
repitch getpitch 1 %1.ana %1pch.ana %1.frq 
REM erase unwanted pitch file             
erase %1pch.ana   
REM Create pitch-trace text file                                   
ptobrk withzeros %1.frq %1.pch 20   
REM Stretch the input sound                     
psow stretch %1.wav %2.wav %1.pch %3 %4   
REM Erase intermediate files...             
if exist %1.ana erase %1.ana                             
if exist %1.frq erase %1.frq                             
if exist %1.brk erase %1.brk
REM Optionally play the output
if exist %2.wav paplay -i %2.wav 

A typical commandline for this might be fofstretch my mystr 2.0 20. For test purposes, put the script in the same folder as the input file.
 

Thanks for your bug report. The parameter pages are clearly not loading for some reason. Not sure at this stage whether this is genuinely a Windows 11 problem or not. I'll test the program on Win11 and report back.

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)

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.