Composers Desktop Project Forum

The Loom invokes Submix interleave.
In the most recent versions of the Loom, if you have 2 mono files of the same length on the Chosen Files list,
and you select the "CHANNELS" menu on the process page, the interleave to stereo will run. without having to
select from the CHANNELS menu.

(A) Any file called "temp" can be overwritten.

(B) There is an option on the middle menu above the workspace (under the RENAME options - near the bottom of the RENAME menu), to overwrite the chosen file (lets call it OVERWRITE-CHOSEN).
A typical use would be
(1) You have a file AAA to process on the Chosen-Files list.
(2) You process the file, name the output, BBB, and return to the workspace.
(3) At this stage your pre-processed file AAA is on Chosen-Files list, and your output-file BBB is at the top of the workspace.
(4) Highlight the output file (BBB) by clicking mouse on it (but don't alter the Chosen Files list!!).
(5) Use the OVERWRITE-CHOSEN option. This renames BBB to AAA (deleting the original AAA) effectively overwriting the original.

(C) This also works with BULK PROCESS. If you process 1000 files (so you have 1000 files on the Chosen-Files list) and hence you get 1000 NEW files at the top of the workspace, you can highlight those 1000 files and select the OVERWRITE-CHOSEN option, so that all original files are overwritten with all the new ones!!

Lets call the new drive location NEW, and the original drive location ORIG.
It seems to me that a simple answer would be to ....

(1) Set up the Loom in NEW, so that the "_cdp" directory (and hence all its subdirs & files) are in the required new location.
(I think merely copying your existing _cdp directory, WITH ALL ITS SUBDIRECTORIES AND FILES, to NEW should work. This would copy any files on the ORIG workspace to the NEW workspace.)
The Loom would simply default the pwd (present working directory) to the NEW location and all would work as before (sound files not on the workspace would still be accessible as they are known to the Loom by their directory-path+name)

.. any shortcut to the Loom-exec on the Desktop or Start Menu would have to be redirected to the NEW drive/directory.

AFTER doing the above, if you want the CDP executables to be on the ORIG (or some other) drive, proceed as follows

(1) Copy ALL files from the NEW _cdp/_cdprogs directory to whatever location you want (do this first!).
(2) Start the Loom.
(3) On the "System State" menu (PC)  or "System" menu (MAX), at the top right of the workspace. Select "System Settings 2".
(4) From the menu that appears, select "SET DIRECTORY for CDP PROGRAMS"
(5) In the window that appears, type in (or paste) the name of the directory where the executables are now located.
BE SURE TO TYPE THE COMPLETE PATH.
(6) The process will now remove the executables from the location on NEW (if they are still there), and they will be accessed from the directory you have thus specified.

If you make a mistake (e.g. mistype the directory name), and then restart the Loom it will fail to find the CDP programs, and the window for specifying the directory-where-the-programs-are-located will pop-up automatically, so you can type in the correct directory path+name!!!

Hope this is clear, if not completely straightforward!!