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After 2 years I thought I should come back and give it another go, and I have found a fix! This will exclude all the stuff in 'CDP-InstallationNotesMac.pdf' for simplicity's sake.

Firstly, make sure Terminal has Full Disk Access in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access.

Fully quit Terminal and then try to tun the cdp8install.command again, making sure to bypass the Apple automatic prevention thing in Privacy and Security. If this doesn't work, I also had to do the following:

Open terminal and run the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/tmp
chmod 777 ~/tmp

When I installed it this time around I had another issue with the Home Directory 'tmp' folder as well, but doing the above steps also seemed to fix the bash_profile problem as well, maybe because of the Full Disk Access. I then opened up Soundloom and proceeded to bypass all the automatic Apple prevention popups for each process, and it seems to be working now.

I have this problem with MOVE formants by:
When a try to "move formants by" everything works good but not when I turn on the "Silence unpitched" square, then appears this message "ERROR: File ~X_0.ana either has unredable header, or is a textfile with a CDP reserved extension." So, I dont know what to do to correct this thing.

This thing occurs in Soundloom and SoundShaper too.

Probably using the 96K sample rate would do it.
I'm not sure if SL can handle that

Hi. I am getting this error message when trying to morph-bridge 2 ana files in soundloom: Invalid Data Incompatible original sample type in input file 'x' and 'y'. What is is?

Printscreen:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iaKggPBIa4_hqxOK9IRE8n-_-dZ5ZQ7K/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hfR0h0nC2DaOZRMpPm3SqWiI9TfbD5A9/view?usp=sharing[

Imagine using Claude to revamp CDP CLI or SoundLoom. It could breathe new life into these tools. I've been spending hours in Bitlife, meticulously planning careers, but sometimes you just need a well-functioning command line. If LLMs could help us resurrect CDP's unique features, it'd be a win.

thank you simonk,

thats very helpful and a great place to start.

Im new to learning CDP and the learning curve is starting to soften (faster than I anticipated).

I imagine the Claude code output wouldn't be much of an improvement, but I am curious. I will try and report back any interesting results if they materialize.

I can face same problem in window 11

The CDP software has been Open Source for about twelve years.
So, you could download the source code & try for yourself.

https://github.com/ComposersDesktop/CDP8

Please let us know you you get on.

I've just found your post. Have you now resolved the issue? It sounded like a folder problem. Let me have further details if the problem is still there.
Robert F.

Hi,
I've simplified the setup process for Soundshaper and you can download a revised .exe file here.

I'm assuming you still have a valid CDP installation, including a Soundshaper6 folder. Just replace the Soundshaper.exe and also remove any existing Soundshaper.cfg file in the Soundshaper6 folder. Please make sure that the CDPR8 folder has no spaces in the path - do not put it in "Program Files", for example.  As a reminder, the correct folder structure is \CDPR8\_cdp\_cdprogs and \CDPR8\Soundshaper6.

I have checked the installation and settings in Windows, including Windows 11. I also ran the previous version and was reasonably satisfied with the setup procedure as it was. However, I'll not upgrade the official package until you've posted that this new one works (and we've resolved any anomalies.

Robert