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Soundshaper 6.4 has been released. This version revises the options for saving and loading user patches (i.e. process chains), with the aim of making these more versatile. A document explaining the various options is included and a revised user manual will be prepared soon. Users updating from 6.2 or 6.3 have only a few files to replace and would be best to download from www.soundshaper.net/dloads.html .

Awesome. Lookin' forward to the new version!

thanks!

Sort of... I've been working on finalising the next version of Soundshaper (6.4). I'll contact Alessandro soon about this and getting a WINE version together.

Hi, I'm sorry I didn't pick this up earlier. If you still haven't found it - go to Spectral | Formants | Cross: this replaces the spectral envelope of the first sound with that of the second. For those new to this effect, it's similar to vocoding, but with more clarity, and works best if the second sound is fairly articulated / rhythmic and the first sound is relatively static. You can think of this either as rhythmicising the static sound, or conversely giving some pitch to the rhythmic sound. Although it's called cross-synthesis, no actual synthesis is involved.

In Soundshaper, the second sound is normally chosen from row B; also the program will auto-convert both soundfile sources into spectral files (which should both have the same conversion rate).

Quote from: simonk on February 02, 2025, 12:30:45 PMYes, well spotted !
I noticed that too, I think it's a legacy thing.
Many of the fully operational CDP prgs have not had their headers updated as they are not new versions.
 I'll flag that up anyway.

Ok, good to know!

Quote from: simonk on February 02, 2025, 12:30:45 PMMaybe you could try some other sound files with differing formats.

I am trying with mono files, wav format, both in 48000 sr - 24 bit and 44.100 sr - 16 bit. nothing works.
I have also asked now in the SC forum, hopefully someone can help.

Will post here whenever I will have solved it, thank you anyways


 

Quote from: giuliarrr on February 02, 2025, 12:11:41 PMBut I am confused because I am installing CDP 8. 
What does it mean ?

Yes, well spotted !
I noticed that too, I think it's a legacy thing.
Many of the fully operational CDP prgs have not had their headers updated as they are not new versions.
 I'll flag that up anyway.

But it does look as though you have a fully working CDP system. So I'm not sure that the problem can be attributed to the CDP software.
Have you tried asking on the Supercollider forum?

Maybe you could try some other sound files with differing formats.
I am sorry but I'm not a Supercollider user these days, so not much help to you there.

Simon

Ah and all the soundfile names that I have been trying do not have any spaces and they are the same I was using with CDP7 on my Mac Intel.
Thanks,
Giulia

Hi Simon,
I typed sndinfo in the Terminal and this is what I got:

CDP Release 7.1 2016
USAGE: sndreport NAME (mode) infile(s) (outfile) (parameters)

where NAME can be any one of

props     len        lens      sumlen      timediff
smptime   timesmp    maxsamp   maxsamp2    loudchan    findhole
diff      chandiff   prntsnd   units       maxi        zcross

Type 'sndreport timediff'  for more info on info timediff option... ETC.

But I am confused because I am installing CDP 8. 
What does it mean ?

Thanks for your assistance.

Giulia

Wonderful, thank you!