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To add a little more to this important investigation:

The reference to "PUA..." in the Sophos instance is explained by them here:

https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KBA-000004926?language=en_US

I find it interesting (not least as I used Sophos for all AV checking when I had a free account through Bath University; I now use McAfee) that they refer to their "Deep Learning" system. This is of course the modern AI approach, which is by its nature statistical, rather than the "conventional" AV paradigm of comparing against a database of known threats. On that page "PUA" means "Potentially Unwanted Application" (especially in the context of a "business netowrk") - which looks to me remarkably like the Gatekeeper system on the Mac for checking uncertificated downloads - and for which we document a standard workaround.

We are of course continuing to look at this, and will report here as and when.

I am investigating this now - MaxSmp problem confirmed. But it all works as expected on the PC version, while there is no immediate obvious difference in the code (though the Mac did requires many changes to control widget gemetries and behaviour).

The message "KEEP:" is the first field in the text string output from "maxsamp2", followed by the amplitude values. It should be parsed and skipped past, but clearly is not on the Mac.

One of the disadvantages of a scripting language such as tcl is that code is never tested for correctness etc until it is used - unlike a stanbdard compiled language such as C, where most syntax or type errors are caught at compile time. Unfortunately, once Soundloom suffers a tcl error, it usually can't recover, there is no workaround, and it just has to be quit and restarted.

Mode 2 means that the bash config file '.bash_profile' exists, but needs updating with the new PATH information. If this step fails, the usual reason is some problem with write permissions. This is a file that has to be in your home directory, the leading dot in the name makes it hidden (not displayed by the Finder). If - in your home directory - you type the directory listing command 'ls' with the flags '-la', so thus:

ls -la

It will included all the current hidden files and folder in the printed list. '.bash_profile' should be present. The -l flag makes all the current permissions printed along with each file name

You can then print the contents using the 'cat' command:

cat .bash_profile

It would typically show something like:

-rw-r--r--@  ....  .bash_profile

This show the file has write permission for the admin user, but is read-only for everyone else. If you are running as admin (as is the usual case for anyone running a personal machine), this would be fine. If not, the permissions would need to be set by someone with admin privileges.

I can't diagnose further without more information, e.g. the output from those suggested commands.

One final pont - if you are running any of the latest versions of MacOS, your default shell will be zsh, not bash. The install scripts also create an initial CDP config file for zsh, which should also appear in the directory listing (the title bar of the Terminal window will also indicate the zsh shell). I see no indication those file have failed to be created, so it may well be that in the z shell everything will in fact be up and running. Run any CDP program (such as 'dirsf') to verify one way or the other. Best to start a new Terminal session to be sure the new config information has been used.

Finally: I note you have run the xattr -rc command on Soundloom.app. This is fine as far as it goes, but my recommendation now (mentioned in the documentation) is to run it on the whole ~/cdpr8 directory (which will thus cover the app as supplied - the -r flag means 'recursive'), to ensure all the 140+ CDP programs are also covered. This will not in itself change any permissions though. R.

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.

This is the usual Gatekeeper response to a non-signed app downloaded from the bet. The solution is described in the README file: run the Terminal command:

xattr -rc /path/to/soundloomE.app

The best and recommended approach is to run xattr on the whole cdpr8 directory inside the Disk image. This will process everything, including soundloomE.app.
 

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Richard Dobson

I have tested this with the same OS version (and both 2016 build and the latest build) and not been able to reproduce the problem. It would be helpful to have example command lines and data file to reproduce as closely as possible. Test reports from other users would be welcome too!

Richard Dobson

The final argument (36) needs the -s flag, and then the documentation example works (it is a Mode 3 example, not Mode 1). So this should work with your input file:

newtex newtex 3 perc1mono.wav perc1_tex.wav 30 4 3 0.1 0 0 1.5 0.35 -s36