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Hello everyone, I am Amelajhone. I am a new user here, and I am eager to learn more and gain knowledge through the discussions.

An alternative download is provided at www.soundshaper.net/dloads/html -see the bottom of the page. This is a simple zip file, which you can check in your virus-checker before downloading.

The zip does not contain SoundLoom (at present), and comes in two versions - FULL (including offline CDP documentation) and LITE (no CDP docs, which you can access online when needed). The zip contains a folder CDPR8, which you simply place in a folder or drive of your choice (CDP's default recommendation is C:\CDPR8). The chosen folder should have no spaces in the path - so don't place it in Program Files, for example. (Ignore references in the ReadMe file to "InstallSoundshaper6.exe".) Soundshaper requires a few further settings when first run, which are documented here: https://www.soundshaper.net/support.html under the heading "Configure Soundshaper".

This is a known issue & there are no viruses...virii (?) in the CDP downloads.
Please see this thread
https://unstablesound.net/cdpforum/index.php?topic=292.0

Hello. I recently tried to download soundshaper and Windows Defender stopped me. I overruled windows defender and unzipped the installer and dropped it into virustotal here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/178c5c627316b5fad3be7fcf3cae832e8bbd95b3d990d17de7960e06b37b526f
seems like a lot of detections, none of which appear to be false positives. Is this software really the best way to use CDP?

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