Composers Desktop Project Forum

Thanks so much for doing this, Robert!

interesting about the tc shell, most of my experience in nix is in plain old 'vanilla' bash, but working with cdp is motivation enough to check out other shells for the sake of potential automation features alone.

I completely understand where you're coming from with regards to proprietary instruments. when working with CDP, i find them to be corpulent and slowâ€"devoting too much of their processing power to allowing you to hear what you're actually doing. It's almost similar to writing music by ear on a piano vs. learning to sight-read enough to hear a (likely) potential outcome in your 'minds ear'. I'm not at the point where I can do that, but some processes are straight-forward enough that I have a good idea of where i'll be after executing a process.

Funny you should say that about the text editor! Lately it's been just me, sublime text, a terminal window, and renoiseâ€"the main benefit of renoise being the ability to have a buffer as a scratch track!

It's strange though to be talking to people on other forums about say, drum n bass production, and knowing that one could just as easily sculpt a sound with a few cdp processes as one could with a series of plugins in a DAW. I think the only thing that might excite me more is a max 7 front-end, just to have everything in one environment.

cdp reminds me of something like nethackâ€"it doesn't look as pretty, but there's still a depth to it that is unrivaled by anything else i've seen, regardless as how 'pretty' something else might seem.

Hey all, I've been inspired to install CDP, thanks to the game-changing renoise front-end by afta8 and djeroek. I love it, and it's inspired me to actually build my own shell scripts of repetitive processes, as well as look into how to get the cleanest possible results from each process.

I've noticed from reading the documentation that there are a few other environment variables besides CDP_SOUND_EXT, such as CDP_MEMORY_BBSIZE.

Are there other possible environment variables that can be specified? I really want to get the most I can out of this, and honestly the spectral morphing experiments i've made are blowing my mind. Sure it isn't real-time, but I'm getting transformations that remind me of Kyma (in terms of cleanliness).

I'd love if there was a thread on here where we could discuss tips, tricks, and personal favorite tools. I've experienced a major paradigm-shift since i've been working with these tools (all of a week or so). I see the concept of a 'sound' differently than I did. it's not just a sample anymore, but so much more hidden potential!

so lets talk about undocumented features, weird bugs, other environment variables, shell scripts, and other such nerdery!