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Title: Spectral-Formants-CROSS
Post by: Lunatico on June 07, 2025, 02:00:17 PM
Hi
What am I doing wrong?
I get this error when I click preview:

Soundshaper CDP Error. Preview Not possible .Ok
ERROR: INVALID DATA
ERROR: Can't open file ~X_-1.wav to read data.
ERROR: INVALID DATA
ERROR: Can't open file ~X_-1.ana to read data.

https://ibb.co/Nds7n75N (https://ibb.co/Nds7n75N)
Title: Re: Spectral-Formants-CROSS
Post by: Robert Fraser on June 09, 2025, 12:51:10 PM
Thanks for the video screenshots - very helpful. You're not really doing anything wrong, but I wonder what the Soundshaper version is?

Your PVOC conversion is displaying  channels=1 for stereo files, but is naming the files correctly with channelised extensions (_c1.ana and _c2.ana). Unfortunately the preview hasn't picked this up and is looking for a file names without these extensions (see the error message), so it crashes from there on.   

I tried CROSS in Soundshaper 6.3 and later without problems, after doing explicit PVOC conversions as you have (channels = 2 after conversion). Soundshaper doesn't normally need explicit PVOCs and you could try just going straight to the CROSS process having selected your 2nd file. But clearly there was a bug there and if your version is up-to-date, that may still be another one for me to sort out...   Let me know and I'll look into it.

(How did you do the video, by the way?)
Title: Re: Spectral-Formants-CROSS
Post by: Lunatico on June 09, 2025, 10:21:14 PM
Hi
A lot of thanks for your great and effective support.
- The version is Soundshaper 6.4. Maybe I installed it wrong and some files are missing.

* you could try just going straight to the CROSS process having selected your 2nd file.
- This is the solution, this way it works perfect!

* (How did you do the video, by the way?)
- Yes, of course! The program is licecap from Reapèr:

https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Title: Re: Spectral-Formants-CROSS
Post by: Robert Fraser on June 13, 2025, 07:56:20 PM
Hi,
* The program is licecap from Reapèr
Thanks for sharing this - I'll check it out.

Please update your Soundshaper from 6.4, which had some very odd behaviour. See my ANNOUNCE post today for a link. You can upgrade in less time than it takes to boil a kettle! 
Title: Re: Spectral-Formants-CROSS
Post by: Lunatico on June 15, 2025, 06:00:50 PM
Hi Robert
Thanks for the latest update, I already have it updated.