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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.

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

@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.

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.

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