Sound Design with a Difference

Discover new musical possibilities with CDP, a mature and wide-ranging suite of sound-manipulation programs.

• CDP has hundreds of processes covering nearly every aspect of creative sound design.
  
  
• CDP's emphasis is on transforming existing sounds to create new ones in the tradition of musique concrète: READ MORE.
  
  
• CDP is free software, running on MacOS™, Windows™ and Linux™ and released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

CDP Release 8

CDP is proud to announce its 8th software release – the first major upgrade since 2014.
Release 8 adds to the CDP's toolset especially in the treatment of formants, wavecycle distortion, segmentation and repetition:

• Around 80 new processes, including:
  – New waveset distortion processes
  – New multichannel processes, including special tools targeting 8-channel and 16-channel arrays
  – New PVOC processes, including extensive manipulation of formants
  – New vocal processing tools, including many new ways to chop and repeat segments
  – New synthesis and waveform generation tools
  – Many small improvements, extensions and bug fixes
  – Some special Wishart "experimental" and "scientific" processes
  See full list: New Additions


• CDP documentation: fully revised for Release 8


• GUI programs updated:
  – Support for Release 8 in Soundshaper and SoundLoom interfaces
  – Viewsf, Grainmill and BrkEdit now support 24-bit files
  – Grainmill re-implemented in floating point throughout


• PVOCEX analysis file support (.pvx, as standard in Csound)
  – supported in SoundLoom (latest version 17.0.4E - "soundloomE")
  – .pvx files supported in PVPLAY (including stereo .pvx files), DIRSF


• Scripting: Tabula Vigilans (TV), our versatile scripting language, now runs CDP processes as well as MIDI, with full control of parameter values.

Download CDP 8

See the DOWNLOAD page for the the latest CDP Release 8 for MacOS™ and Windows™.

Also see our GitHub page for sources.