Composers Desktop Project Forum

Hi Robert-

Thank you so much for replying! Of course I never thought a virus or similar could be placed intentionally. I am inclined to trust the software and the page, plus running the download URL through VirusTotal flagged nothing but safe verifications from dozens of trusted sites. I was trying to play it safe, and I feel better having your response. I've been itching to use the software! I will try again.

Thank you!

The Windows installer has been virus-checked by Trend Micro anti-virus and that shows up no threats; the same applies to the various Soundshaper downloads on my site. As you'll appreciate, it's not practical to install more than one virus checker, but I'd be glad if other users were to flag up any threats their particular anti-virus software has detected, so that these can be followed up.  It is marginally possible that there could be a virus, but I'm inclined to suspect this is a false positive. When I run a new copy of Soundshaper on Win10, Trend immediately thinks it's found a threat, because the program is deleting files - of course it is, they're temporary soundfiles!

Ultimately, the user must make up their own mind about the safety or otherwise of this software which is supplied "as is". There's certainly no intention to spread viruses.

Hey! Sorry to ask a noob question. I looked around here but didn't see this mentioned. I am running Windows 11. I just downloaded the PC zip from the site and Windows Security flagged this as a threat: PUA:Win32/Vigua.A

Doing a search online didn't turn up much other than saying this could be a threat.

Can anyone tell me what's up? Is this a virus in the download? Should I remove it? Is this a part of the software and therefore safe or benign?

Thank you!

Getting to know CDP, part 2:
I'm currently reading some of the entries in the full command reference documentation. In "cpvocman.htm" (i.e. the entry entitled "CDP PVOC Functions"), the description of several commands begins with statements like the following:
"The flags mentioned refer to Old Usage pre-Release 4. The documentation often refers to the -N flag (points) and the -W flag (overlap)."
Or:
"The flags mentioned (-W, -C) refer to Old Usage pre-Release 4."
Later, there's a heading which says:
"The Phase Vocoder flags â€" with CDP parameter names (since Release 4) in parentheses"
Honestly, I'm confused. Does that mean that it describes the usage of these commands for releases older than 4? If so, where am I supposed to find the description of their usage in newer versions?

Next, it keeps talking about pairs of frequencies and amplitudes. Do they really mean frequencies? Are they sure they didn't mean to say "phase shifts and amplitudes"? Aren't the specific frequencies implied from the chosen sample rate and FFT size? I've read the entire webpage from top to bottom and it still seems to me that it should actually be "phase shifts and amplitudes".

There's also this thread

https://unstablesound.net/cdpforum/index.php?topic=278.0

A Soundshaper upgrade (6.3) for existing users has been released as a Beta-test version. The zip can be downloaded here: https://www.soundshaper.net/dloads.html and a brief description is given here: https://www.soundshaper.net/news.html

This is not a full release - just a revised exe to put alongside your existing Soundshaper.exe - plus a few supporting documents.

The main change is an improved method for processing part of a file: the CUT-PROCESS-PASTE mechanism is now built in to Soundshaper's scripts, where applicable, so that all you do is to select the portion to be processed, click PROCESS SELECTION, then the process itself, and the whole file is returned with just the processed segment altered.  There is also a new built-in BALANCE function, which can be applied to the whole file or the selected segment. A full description is included in the zip.

Comments and bug reports would be very welcome - either to the Forum or by email.

Hi iamcyanblue,
I get the same.

Its Soundloom on the Mac that is the problem.
TCL & TK being prety much deprecated on later Mac o/s versions

There is a new Mac GUI in the pipeline but we cannot, at this time, give a release date.
I am sorry, but until that happy day you'll have to put up with SL as it is, not pretty. (at all)

Simon

Hi Harmonion,
Welcome to the CDP world.

If you look at the CDP homepage you will see 'Learn' in one of the dropdown menus
https://composersdesktop.com/index.html

You might try the Workshops:
https://composersdesktop.com/workshops.html#LM

or this page, which has lots of links :
https://www.composersdesktop.com/docs/html/tutorials.htm

We'd love to hear how you get on.
Have fun!
Simon

Hello,
I've just downloaded CDP version 8 for Windows.
My intention is to code all my audio manipulation exclusively by writing batch files in an ordinary word processor.
I've already read the tutorial webpage entitled "Running the CDP system" and I have no problem understanding what it says.
My question is:
Which part of the documentation would you recommend to read next, if I'm not interested in things like Soundloom or Soundshaper? There are tons of entries in the full command reference and I would rather welcome something like one large piece of text where just some of the syntax would be explained, rather than reading about all the commands/features and having a hard time deciding which ones I would try just for my introductory experiments and which ones I would learn to use later.
Thank you in advance.

I'm having issues getting SoundLoom to recognise MIDI input. I've connected my Nord Stage 2 to my MacBook M3 via USB cable. The tv executable is in my _cdprogs folder and when I start SoundLoom, the piano keys button appears in the Workspace/Main Screen, Calculator and relevant parameter fields. I've selected my keyboard in System Setting 2: Midi input device and connected it via Apple's MIDI Studio utility. Key/MIDI signals from the Nord register fine in MIDI Studio and Ableton Live, But SoundLoom isn't recognising it at all. These are the steps I'm following:

1. MIDI settings at the start of the session: Device: Nord Stage 2 Output (Core MIDI); Max No. MIDI Events: 6000; MIDI STOP Trigger = 24 (i.e. lowest key A-3)
2. I click the "Piano Keys" button to start input. Select Pitch and Midi as the values to capture, then click the Get Midi button
3. Dialog box appears: "Waiting for MIDI input. TO STOP, Hit MIDI key = 24". Click OK.
4. An error message appears immediately or after a second: "No Midi Data (_cdpenv/tvout)"

I've tried playing keys on the Nord both before and after clicking OK on the "Waiting for MIDI input screen (step 3), but nothing is recognised as an input.
I looked in _cdpenv/ and there's no file called "tvout"