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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 

Hi Ignatius,
I have gone through the Soundshaper code today and tidied up various things in the setup. I will post a new version tomorrow.

Soundshaper and CDP are supplied with the correct folders in place. Whatever you choose as your CDP base folder (default is C:\CDPR8), there should be a subfolder _cdp and another one called Soundshaper6 on the same level.  Neither of these should be re-positioned.

Robert

Hi,
I'm sorry you've had this problem though it should be easy enough to fix.
 
I'll take a look at it and see if I can see why the CDP programs folder should not be found. The normal setting is for Soundshaper to be within C:\CDPR8 (or whatever), as is the folder _cdp and its subfolder _cdprogs. In other words:  (C:\CDPR8)\_cdp\_cdprogs  and (C:\CDPR8)\ Soundshaper.

The thin window you mention seems to occur when setting up is incomplete for some reason.
Robert F.   

Actually my earlier post was misleading, unfortunately, and I'm trying to automate a workaround that might fix the problems:
1) If Infile 1 is mono and 2 is stereo (for example), both are transposed down an octave and need to be corrected with modify speed x2.
2) If Infile 1 is shorter than Infile 2, the output length is that of Infile 1. So you need to have the longer sound as Infile 1.
3) There's also the possiblity of inverting the Balance value to suit the above.

Not for the faint-hearted...

Has Anyone thought about rebuilding the CDP CLI and or SoundLoom with Claude Code or some other LLM? would be great to use CDP as it has unique and desirable features, but both are ostensibly unusable as is.

 
anyone have some thoughts on this? just curious what to do to troubleshoot or if it's just a bug. i reinstalled it once to see if that would fix it but didn't help. same problem.

Win11, latest version of CDP and Soundshaper.  when i launch soundshaper i get the op up window that it needs to know where the progs folder is. so, i go to settings/options and set the proper folder paths and save that as default settings.

i have to do this every time i launch soundshaper. SoundThread works fine and has no trouble remembering where the proper folders are. also, soundshaper loads as a very thin window that i have to drag down from the bottom to expose the GUI.

I've tried every type of save and exit procedure in soundshaper to try and get it to remember where things are but it's a puzzle i cannot solve.

I'd like to use Soundshaper and Soundthread in equal parts. there's something appealing to me about the spreadsheet interface of soundshaper.

apologies if this issue has been dealt with already. i couldn't find any leads on the forum for a solution.

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

I can't be certain this would fix that unusual problem (which is new to me), but we updated several CDP programs towards the end of last year, including a new build of Soundllom using the much newer 8.6.1 version of tcltk, which plays much better graphically with the newer versions of OS X. All these updates are included in the full R8 downloads, but I have also provided simple zips of the updated files in Github, here:

https://github.com/ComposersDesktop/CDP8/tree/main/BinUpdates/Jan2026/osx-x86
(select the zip, then click on the "Download Raw" icon.)

One of Soundloom's weirder quirks is that sometimes GUI window popups do not appear as they should; they are in effect "hidden" behind the main WorkSpace screen, despite being the 'active' window for mouse actions etc. If in effect the Workspace window become unresponsive, it may be that just moving the window around a bit will reveal the secret window which would need a mouse action to dismiss.