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Hi Simon, thanks for the reply. A bit of background - I've been using CDP7 via Renoise and I had Soundloom installed, but it's completely impenetrable to me. I do remember getting them installed was an ordeal. I'm not exactly computer competent, so doing anything in the terminal is an adventure to say the least. I'd like to try out the new SoundThread UI, but I couldn't get it working. I thought maybe it's because I was still on 7, which is why I've been trying to install 8.

I was following the instructions in the readme file, I hadn't looked at the manualconfig file. Unfortunately I'm still having difficulties. I know I'm doing something wrong in the terminal, but I'm not sure what. If I try to do almost anything, I get a 'command not found' message. The 'cd ~' command brings me to my home directory as expected, but if e.g. I try to open text edit via the terminal, I get '-bash: open: command not found'. However, I notice that if I look for hidden files in my home folder using command-shift-period, I do have a .zshenv file and it does contain the statement

Quotepath=('$HOME/cdpr8/_cdp/_cdprogs' $path)
export PATH

as the indicated in the manualconfig file. Not sure how that happened, but ok, whatever. But if I try to point the Renoise tool to the CDP8 _cdprogs folder, Mac security blocks it. Same result if I replace CDP7's '_cdprogs' folder with CDP8's. And if I try to enter 'xattr -rc cdpr8' to bypass security, I get the 'xatter: command not found' message. Same with Soundloom, which I uninstalled for some reason.

I got CDP7 and the Renoise tool working again, so I guess I'm not too fussed about this right now.

Hello,
There is a file called 'Manualconfig-MAC.pdf in the /cdpr8/docs folder.
Look down to 1b on page 3 & follow the instructions there.

Please let us know that it works for you.

Simon

I'm trying to install CDP8 as new and I'm having some issues. I'm on Monterey 12.6.8 on a Macbook Pro M1. This is what shows up in the terminal when I double-click cdp8install.command -

QuoteThe default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
MacBook-Pro-2:~ josh$ /Users/josh/cdpr8/cdp8install.command ; exit;
/Users/josh/cdpr8/cdp8install.command: line 4: dirname: command not found
/Users/josh/cdpr8/cdp8install.command: line 5: /Users/josh/scripts/cdpsetbashpath.pl: No such file or directory
/Users/josh/cdpr8/cdp8install.command: line 7: cat: command not found
logout

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

and when I try point the terminal to the CDP directory and enter 'xattr -rc cdpr8', I get this message -

Quote-bash: xattr: command not found

I had CDP7 installed and I remember having a hard time getting that running. I guess I shouldn't have removed it, whoops. I don't computer good, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Jonathan,
Congratulations on your work, this looks really good !
I just watched the first video & downloaded the zip file. So, I'll be eagerly trying this out in the next few days.

Simon

Hi all,
I've been working on an alternative user interface for CDP called SoundThread. It is node based and allows you to patch multiple processes together, both in series and parallel. It's just got to a beta stage so I thought I would share it here. Right now not everything is implemented (there's only about 50 CDP processes currently in) but it will be expanding over time. I've designed this primarily with new users of CDP in mind (specifically my sound art students) but I think it's definitely still got some utility for those already familiar with CDP.

It's cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) and free to download on GitHub: https://github.com/j-p-higgins/SoundThread

I've made a couple of video overviews of it, the first one is here: https://youtu.be/6dOh-Geq6f8

Hello everyone, I am Amelajhone. I am a new user here, and I am eager to learn more and gain knowledge through the discussions.

An alternative download is provided at www.soundshaper.net/dloads/html -see the bottom of the page. This is a simple zip file, which you can check in your virus-checker before downloading.

The zip does not contain SoundLoom (at present), and comes in two versions - FULL (including offline CDP documentation) and LITE (no CDP docs, which you can access online when needed). The zip contains a folder CDPR8, which you simply place in a folder or drive of your choice (CDP's default recommendation is C:\CDPR8). The chosen folder should have no spaces in the path - so don't place it in Program Files, for example. (Ignore references in the ReadMe file to "InstallSoundshaper6.exe".) Soundshaper requires a few further settings when first run, which are documented here: https://www.soundshaper.net/support.html under the heading "Configure Soundshaper".

This is a known issue & there are no viruses...virii (?) in the CDP downloads.
Please see this thread
https://unstablesound.net/cdpforum/index.php?topic=292.0

Hello. I recently tried to download soundshaper and Windows Defender stopped me. I overruled windows defender and unzipped the installer and dropped it into virustotal here:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/178c5c627316b5fad3be7fcf3cae832e8bbd95b3d990d17de7960e06b37b526f
seems like a lot of detections, none of which appear to be false positives. Is this software really the best way to use CDP?

Soundshaper 6.4 has been released. This version revises the options for saving and loading user patches (i.e. process chains), with the aim of making these more versatile. A document explaining the various options is included and a revised user manual will be prepared soon. Users updating from 6.2 or 6.3 have only a few files to replace and would be best to download from www.soundshaper.net/dloads.html .