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When installing, I'm receiving this message by AVG anti virus: FileRepMalware. Does that mean that it just doesn't know the program?

Also getting the error.
Unzipped Install_CDPRelease8_PC with 7Zip, scanned with Malwarebytes. One file caused a problem - ASCIIGET.EXE. I hate to say it, but I think someone slipped a virus into one of your programs.

Hi,

I'm just trying to use CDP on Linux.
But when I build libaaio, I got a configuration error below.
I tried on both Manjaro and Debian13.

Here are the versions on my Manjaro
aclocal: 1.18.1
automake: 1.18.1
gcc: 15.1.1

On Debian13
aclocal: 1.17
automake: 1.17
gcc: 14.2.0

Do you have a plan to update source code for Linux?

./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

I've just checked both installers (Full and Lite) through my virus checker (Trend Micro) and it found no problems. However, users who are worried about this aspect can download a simple zip file containing the required folder CDPR8 (which you simply copy anywhere or rename as you like).

As mentioned in my last post above the zips (which are the latest updated versions) can be accessed here:
  www.soundshaper.net/dloads.html#CDPZIP
or its mirror site: www.ensemble-software.net/dloads.html#CDPZIP

Just be careful not to have any spaces in the path - so don't put CDPR8 in Program Files, for example.

Hi I just registered here to post about a similar problem, my computer's virus scan is finding
" Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.H!ml " when trying to run the installer.
Is this familiar?

Trevor Wishart has confirmed that the program fractal.exe should be the one documented as part of Release 8, with the two modes fractal wave and fractal spectrum - not the one currently distributed with CDP (usage: fractal fractal).

You can download the correct program here: https://www.ensemble-software.net/downloads/fractal.zip
Unzip, then copy fractal.exe to your _cdprogs folder, replacing the current file. If you want to retain the current fractal program, you'll have to rename it first, e.g. to "fractalX.exe". Note that Soundshaper supports the correct program (fractal wave / fractal spectrum), not the other one (fractal fractal).

The PC distribution files will be amended later today; we'll need to clarify which version is in the MAC distribution and amend that as necessary.


 

The answer here is an unusual one. When the final compilation for CDP8 was made on 15th March 2023, a different (earlier?) version of fractal was used from the one we'd already tested and documented. (It would not have been easy to spot this out of more than 250 programs!) The result is that fractal wave and fractal spectrum, as used in Soundshaper, are not recognised by the released version (fractal fractal), which does something completely different. (You can test this easily on the command line: change directory to _cdprogs and type 'fractal'.)

I can make the January '23 version available, but it would be better first to confirm that it is indeed the intended program (i.e. fractal wave / fractal spectrum). I'll take this up with my CDP colleagues and see if we can resolve the anomaly.

As for the the original distort fractal, as noted above this is actually still accessible in Soundshaper under the XTRA | Legacy menu. I think I consigned it there because it didn't seem to transform the sound much at all. 


 

Thanks for this - I'll look into it.

Thanks that works!

I have the same problem but not with XTRA-LEGACY-WAVESETS-CYCL FRACTALS. Some solution?