New Tool (3.0): CDP lua tool

[Makrotulpa]

Just a quick question - should we replace the definitions.lua file with @Djeroek update definitions files?

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

@Makrotulpa

Just a quick question - should we replace the definitions.lua file with @Djeroek update definitions files?

Maybe for now you could put the file inside the CDP progs folder together with all the process .exe’s, the user definitions file put there will ‘overwrite’ (sort of) what is inside the actual tool definitions. Done this way as installing a new version of the tool would erase possible made additions or changes inside the tools definitions. Keeping the user definitions separate makes sure they aren’t affected.

Though I think there were only a few minor changes made compared to what comes with the latest tool install, the grain stuff didn’t work when opening the tool on very small, short sounds. If you don’t plan on using those effects or simply close and open the tool gui on a longer sound it should open without problems.

[Makrotulpa]

@Djeroek

Maybe for now you could put the file inside the CDP progs folder together with all the process .exe’s, the user definitions file put there will ‘overwrite’ (sort of) what is inside the actual tool definitions. Done this way as installing a new version of the tool would erase possible made additions or changes inside the tools definitions. Keeping the user definitions separate makes sure they aren’t affected.

Though I think there were only a few minor changes made compared to what comes with the latest tool install, the grain stuff didn’t work when opening the tool on very small, short sounds. If you don’t plan on using those effects or simply close and open the tool gui on a longer sound it should open without problems.

Cool - thanks for that.

A query / request - I’m wondering if there is a way to spawn a notepad for creating a breakpoint file? So many of these functions seem to need it.

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

@Makrotulpa

A query / request - I’m wondering if there is a way to spawn a notepad for creating a breakpoint file? So many of these functions seem to need it.

Not yet, but that’s a nice request, would be useful until a more native Renoise solution is realized. Maybe you misunderstood, just to be clear; functions don’t necessarily need breakpoint files, these are optional, use them if you’d want to create parameter change over time.

Some processes do need data input through text files, these are opened through the same toggles and are always the first parameter in the gui. If there are more toggles present in the same definition, you can bet the others are optional to load breakpoint files.

[Makrotulpa]

@Djeroek

Not yet, but that’s a nice request, would be useful until a more native Renoise solution is realized. Maybe you misunderstood, just to be clear; functions don’t necessarily need breakpoint files, these are optional, use them if you’d want to create parameter change over time.

Some processes do need data input through text files, these are opened through the same toggles and are always the first parameter in the gui. If there are more toggles present in the same definition, you can bet the others are optional to load breakpoint files.

OK that’s good to know.

Are the Pitch functions working for anyone?
I’ve been trying to pitch down some sounds with the “Pitch Transpose without moving formants” functions and getting the “An output file was not produced - Check your settings” error along with the “Application doesn’t work with this infile error”

[m_m]

@Makrotulpa

Are the Pitch functions working for anyone?
I’ve been trying to pitch down some sounds with the “Pitch Transpose without moving formants” functions and getting the “An output file was not produced - Check your settings” error along with the “Application doesn’t work with this infile error”

I get the exact same error here with a mono .wav 44khz/16bits file

but according to the manual there more than one step to do this. I am not sure if this CDP interface can’t achieve those steps.

«1.extract the pitch of the analysis-file source (REPITCH GETPITCH, producing a binary pitch data file .frq),
2.combine (REPITCH COMBINE, Mode 1) this with your new pitch data file (a .frq made with REPITCH GENERATE) to 3.generate a transposition file .trn (.frq + .frq = .trn) and then apply the transposition data (.trn) to the original analysis-file (REPITCH TRANSPOSE, Mode 4).»

[Daed]

One thing I’ve noticed:

If I do anything that requires analysis, I end up with an error.

Something along the lines of:

ERROR: Can’t open file
/tmp/Renoise-0-24766/Renoise_TmpFile-0.55.ana to read data.

When looking in my tmp directory (in the particular case of this error), I saw:
Renoise_TmpFile-0-52.txt

Wrong extension, wrong filename…

Wondering how I could go about fixing these issues…

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

Aight, I’ve updated the user definitions to include what doesn’t work (yet) in the title of the preset, (might have missed a few only checked additional needed repitch or audio inputs), but extract and put this file in your _cfprogs directory together with all the process .exe’s;

5049 user_definitions.rar

@Makrotulpa

Are the Pitch functions working for anyone?
I’ve been trying to pitch down some sounds with the “Pitch Transpose without moving formants” functions and getting the “An output file was not produced - Check your settings” error along with the “Application doesn’t work with this infile error”

What pitch transpose isn’t working, what is the complete process name? If it is pitch altharms or pitch octmove these indeed don’t work yet as they need a repitch input.

@Makrotulpa

I get the exact same error here with a mono .wav 44khz/16bits file

but according to the manual there more than one step to do this. I am not sure if this CDP interface can’t achieve those steps.

«1.extract the pitch of the analysis-file source (REPITCH GETPITCH, producing a binary pitch data file .frq),
2.combine (REPITCH COMBINE, Mode 1) this with your new pitch data file (a .frq made with REPITCH GENERATE) to 3.generate a transposition file .trn (.frq + .frq = .trn) and then apply the transposition data (.trn) to the original analysis-file (REPITCH TRANSPOSE, Mode 4).»

yep, you read correctly, just as the pvoc based processes need an audio file to be converted to a .ana files first, the repitch processes need to have a pitch data file generated. Unlike the pvoc fft processes, this isn’t supported yet.

@Makrotulpa

One thing I’ve noticed:

If I do anything that requires analysis, I end up with an error. …

Please read first post of thread about known install issues and how to fix;

New Tool (3.0): CDP lua tool

EDIT; Download https://www.renoise.com/tools/cdp-interface (latest definitions automatically included in install of the tool) If you are running into problems with it on windows 7, you probably need to do extra stuff; The usual cause of this error message is that the environment variable CDP_SOUND_EXT has not been defined (to wav). This can be done via Control Panel->System Settings->Advanced->Environment Variables. We are in the process of preparing an update release (all platforms) wher…

[anon79899543]

@Djeroek

Does it happen all the time, what OS are you running?

If on windows maybe it is this;

CDP7: Error analysing sound files with PVOC process

Happen all the time, with any preset, im on Mavericks 10.9.3

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

Apparently there are also permission issues on certain Mac OS versions;

Quote
Installation on Mountain Lion and Mavericks.

Admin permissions will be required to complete the installation.

It has transpired that Apple made unannounced changes in these versions of OS X which
mean that the settings created and configured by the installer are simply ignored. This
affects primarily the installation of environment variables (which need to be visible to
Soundloom as well as to the command line programs). We have yet to identify a
compatible substitute for the functionality lost by this OS change.

Instructions on completing the installation by hand are provided
in the supplied file “Manualconfig.pdf”

[Makrotulpa]

@Djeroek

What pitch transpose isn’t working, what is the complete process name? If it is pitch altharms or pitch octmove these indeed don’t work yet as they need a repitch input.

Yeah it was pitch octmove. New definitions gives a clear picture of what works and what doesn’t.

Thanks again!
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[esaruoho]

@afta8

P.S: Esa, got to say thanks again for helping me out back in the day on my first tool, if you hadn’t helped me back then I probably wouldn’t have gotten sucked into this lua coding

Thanks, that’s about the nicest thing anyone could say! I’m really glad it worked out

Your post really made my day!

[esaruoho]

hi. i’m thick, so bear with me.
what is “select path to CDP executables” on OSX Mavericks? I mean, where are they supposed to be? I did install it, and can start distort on the shell, but wouldn’t have the foggiest about the location.
edit: okay, the solution was to type set in terminal and see that they’re at
/Users/esaruoho/cdpr7/_cdp/_cdprogs

now however, I’m getting “An output file was not produced - Check your settings” /> i have a feeling it’s somewhere in this thread…

well, i can confirm that i can use Distort with the script!

incidentally, what if the right-mouse context in SampleEditor would allow for launching the script, under Process…->CDP?

[doncab (Fairweather)]

Firstly, thanks for putting this together because it’s awesome!

Secondly I just had a crash when switching between exes. It gave me this;

std::logic_error: 'ViewBuilder: invalid value for slider: '0.613333'. value must be [1 - 1.22667].'  
stack traceback:  
 [C]: in function 'slider'  
 main.lua:618: in function 'build_arg_params_row'  
 main.lua:749: in function 'build_args_column'  
 main.lua:803: in function <798><br>
  [C]: ?<br>
  [C]: in function '__newindex'<br>
  [string "do..."]:22: in function <br>
  main.lua:780: in function <777><br>```

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Followed by this one;<br>
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```<br>std::logic_error: 'ViewBuilder: trying to remove a view which was not added to the calling parent view.'<br>
stack traceback:<br>
  [C]: in function 'remove_child'<br>
  main.lua:782: in function <777><br>```

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I'm on a 64-bit mac running 32-bit renoise.</777></777></798>

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

[quote=“Fairweather, post:194, topic:41466”]
Firstly, thanks for putting this together because it’s awesome!

Secondly I just had a crash when switching between exes. It gave me this;

std::logic_error: 'ViewBuilder: invalid value for slider: '0.613333'. value must be [1 - 1.22667].'  
stack traceback:  
 [C]: in function 'slider'  
 main.lua:618: in function 'build_arg_params_row'  
 main.lua:749: in function 'build_args_column'  
 main.lua:803: in function <798><br>
  [C]: ?<br>
  [C]: in function '__newindex'<br>
  [string "do..."]:22: in function <br>
  main.lua:780: in function <777><br>```

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<br>
Followed by this one;<br>
<br>

```<br>std::logic_error: 'ViewBuilder: trying to remove a view which was not added to the calling parent view.'<br>
stack traceback:<br>
  [C]: in function 'remove_child'<br>
  main.lua:782: in function <777><br>```

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I'm on a 64-bit mac running 32-bit renoise.<br>[/quote]<br>
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Do you remember which process you got this bug from?<br>
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This is a known error.<br>
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It happened because the range isn't set correct in the tool definition, according to the CDP manual it has 1 as minimal value, but if you try to use the effect on a sound that is actually smaller in length than this minimum, it'll show the bug. Close the tool gui, use the same process on a longer sound and you wont get the error. <br>
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Or, If you have the scripting terminal enabled, you could open up the user definition, ctrl+f = search for the particular process that is buggy and change min = 1, to min = 0 for the parameter.<br>
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If you know which process had this bug I can also fix it, collect more inevitable range bugs and paste a new user_definition file here.</777></777></798>

[Airmann]

Thanks a lot (!) for this cool GUI wrapper for CDP. Makes CDP usage so much easier and provides a huge playground for sounddesign. Keep up the good work !

[Akiz]

What about Linux? Can you help me to get it work please :-)?
Ubuntu 14.04 / 64bit system and apps.

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

@Akiz

What about Linux? Can you help me to get it work please :-)?
Ubuntu 14.04 / 64bit system and apps.

All I know is there are linux sources that can be downloaded here;

www.unstablesound.net/downloads/CDPrelease7src-linuxbeta.tar.gz

But I’m not sure if you have to be a pro programmer to get this compiled into something usable, maybe ask somewhere on the official forum for support?

Composers Desktop Project Forum - Index

[Daed]

I compiled it on Ubuntu studio. I had the issues I mentioned in my earlier post. Haven’t looked much more into it.

[Jonas (Djeroek)]

@Daed

I compiled it on Ubuntu studio. I had the issues I mentioned in my earlier post. Haven’t looked much more into it.

You had problems with CDP not being able to read the .ana files right? I don’t know how it is done in Linux, but on windows you need to set a environment variable somewhere in the configuration. Maybe you can do something similar in Ubuntu?

Read; CDP7: Error analysing sound files with PVOC process