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Hi Zander
Welcome to the CDP

Soundloom doesn't permit files with spaces in the name.
Here ia a page for troubleshooting common SoundLoom problems

http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/sloomtips.html

Simon

Hello!

I am a completely new CDP user and I am not particularly well versed with the ins and outs of computer software/coding/architecture. I'm using Soundloom on a MAC, trying to process an audio clip "falling stars_1.wav". I've put it in a folder on my desktop, then copied it to the workspace, and chosen the file. But when I click on process, the above error message pops up.

What have I done wrong?
Mil gracias!

I'm... decently familiar with WINE on macOS, in the sense that I've been able to get SoundShaper running and running into this same problem, haha. But I'm glad to wait a few more days for a stable version - just very excited is all!

Empiricus,
Unless you are familiar with WINE on MacOS, it could be worth waiting a few more days while we establish robust installation instructions, which also use a newer package. 

Signed up for this forum just to say I'm *very* excited to download a Wine-compatible version of SoundShaper - glad to see the problem I was running into has been addressed, and so recently too! Can't wait to download it

Alessandro Ratoci and I have worked on fixing these problems and a new version has been produced - for Wine on the Mac. He will give the link in another post, but I have some further work to do before releasing a public version 6.3.1. There is no new functionality anyway, just some different ways of copyihg files.

Thank you again Alessandro for your careful work in implementing Soundshaper on the MAC - it may be slower, but it works!

Robert

Thanks very much for these download links. All of the failing command-lines quoted involve Windows copy, so I'll need to revise this. (Actually I usually use CDP copysfx, so that could solve things). Certainly once I've set up your Wine version on the MAC, it will be easy to see what's going wrong. R.

@Robert

Quote from: Robert Fraser on December 04, 2024, 04:03:35 PMHi Alessandro,

I don't really understand the problem, but it so happens I've been trying to get your Wineskin version up and running on the MAC without success. I'll email you now and if you could help me get that going, I'd be very grateful. Then I think I should be able to answer your question and any other issues, because I'll have the same system as you to test things.

Robert

Dear Robert,
We have the same computer so it should work.
Here two versions, one with Wine

And another with the new version of wine called Kegworks:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kbQ2GMeS6_TNReeQsxWcUBpxNpz72m0Z&usp=drive_fs
Both versions have been extensively tested by my students on bot M1, M2 and old Intel Mac Machine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kf9jEwxDrsj_y34dt1vIlNN7bSAHNFJS/view?usp=sharing
1) they all boot
2) they all fail using the preview function (failure upon rendering the chosen one)
3) they all fail copying cells
4) they all fail restoring saved patches (missing source file) and if you chose a new source file it does not rerun properly

I'm pretty sure it's a copy problem as it's what it seems to be in common to all the problems.
All the problems are 100% consistent and happens every time

Thank you for your precious help,
My students are pretty enthusiast about CDP...
A.

Hi Alessandro,

I don't really understand the problem, but it so happens I've been trying to get your Wineskin version up and running on the MAC without success. I'll email you now and if you could help me get that going, I'd be very grateful. Then I think I should be able to answer your question and any other issues, because I'll have the same system as you to test things.

Robert

Dear colleagues

I've started finally a full professorship position at the Conservatory of Piacenza, in Italy, teaching electroacoustic and audiovisual composition. Of course I introduced CDP/Soundshaper to my first year course and it's always astonishing to see the great response young people have when they face a non-standard DAW/Plugin centric tool.
I'm running WINE wrapped versions of Soundshaper because they all have Macs and everything goes fine beside two things:

1) when you use the useful "preview" function then the chosen file don't get rendered and is missing
Here is the error message:

C:\windows\system32>copy C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_5.* C:\CDPR8\Temp\~A_4.*
Invalid name.
Invalid name.
Invalid name.
C:\windows\system32>erase C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_-1.*
C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_-1.*: File Not Found
C:\windows\system32>for /l %K in (1, 1, do (
copy C:\CDPR8\Temp\~X_5_c%K.* C:\CDPR8\Temp\~A_4_c%K.*
)
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.
File not found.

2) when I reload the whole patch, the source vile A~0 for example, is always missing.