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Thank you for the reply! Updating CDP and Soundloom worked perfectly, even the graphical quirk seems to be fixed.

Hello, I downloaded Soundloom roughly a year ago, following the installation instructions and was able to use it fine. However, next morning, the application doesn't open, and hasn't since. At this time, I didn't attempt to fix sit because, honestly, I was rather intimidated by my brief time with the GUI. Since then, I discovered the SoundThread GUI beta and now have a renewed interest in using CDP's full functionality.

When I open SoundloomE from Applications, a series of errors show:
"Cannot open file '_userlog/logmax.cdp' to read max count of logs before cull request: defaulting to 10"
 
followed by
"Cannot Find Any Midi Input Devices On Your System".

Before finally: "Cannot Activate Midi-Keyboard Input"

The application then minimises and closes, without any other input such as a "soundloomE has stopped working" popup. Also, these error messages are in the same style as standard Mac popups, but are clearly in some kind of lower resolution or definition and appear really blurry, like they were made for a larger aspect ratio.

Opening soundloomE as an executable yields identical results

Quotecan't read "pa(/users/me/downloads/Amen Break.wav,0)": no such element in array
    while executing
"IsAMixfileIncludingMultichan $pa($fzam,$evv(FTYP))"
    invoked from within
"if [catch {open $evv(CHOSEN_FILE)} fileChosId] {
            Inf "Cannot Open Existing Chosen-Files File"   ;#   No need to exit program
         } else {
            while { ..."
    invoked from within
"if [file exists $evv(CHOSEN_FILE)] {         ;#   Load chlist data
         if [catch {open $evv(CHOSEN_FILE)} fileChosId] {
            Inf "Cannot Open Existing Chosen-Fi..."
    (procedure "LoadWkspace" line 157)
    invoked from within
"LoadWkspace $evv(WORKSPACE_FILE) 1"
    invoked from within
"if [Dlg_Create .workspace "Workspace" "DoWkspaceQuit 0 0"   -borderwidth $evv(SBDR)] {
      if {$small_screen} {
         set can [Scrolled_Canvas .workspace.c -..."
    (procedure "Create_Workspace" line 225)
    invoked from within
"Create_Workspace $cf2"
    invoked from within
"if [CheckExecs] {
   if [LoadInsNames] {
      LoadInsInfo
   }
   if {$sl_real} {
      EstablishLog $cf2
   } else {
      set hst(active) 0
      set hst(cnt) 0
   }
   $cf2.t..."
    (file "/Applications/soundloomE.app/Contents/MacOS/soundloom/lib/app-soundloom/soundloom.tcl" line 720)
    invoked from within
"source /Applications/soundloomE.app/Contents/MacOS/soundloom/lib/app-soundloom/soundloom.tcl"
    ("package ifneeded app-soundloom 1.0" script)
    invoked from within
"package require app-soundloom"
    (file "/Applications/soundloomE.app/Contents/MacOS/soundloom/main.tcl" line 4)

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

Above is the terminal. judging by what I understand (little) it looks like something I did on my original session is preventing it from opening, as I can see a WAV file not being found in an array. Also I doubt it's a problem with CDP itself as I can run soundthread to that original CDP install.

Im using a MacBook Air with macOS Tahoe, I don't remember what version I would have used at the time (unlikely to be the most recent) but that shouldn't be too relevant since the problem persists now.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.