Question about the safety of Soundshaper

[howisthisNOTavirus]

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?

[simonk]

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

[Robert Fraser]

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".