# CDP System Software, Release 8.
### Version 8.0.1 (Beta)

#### Copyright (c) 2022 Composers Desktop Project Ltd

![The CDP logo]( http://composersdesktop.com/logo.gif) 

	The CDP System is free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them  
	under the  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by   
	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License,   
	or (at your option) any later version.

	The CDP System is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT  
	ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 
	FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
	See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License  
	along with this software (see the top-level file COPYING); if not, write to  
	the Free Software  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,  
	Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
	

What's New?

* approximately 80 new programs/processes by Trevor Wishart. See details in the [docs](./docs) folder.
*  majority already available for use in Soundloom 17.0.4.
*  includes new programs for multichannel (<= 8 channels) production, waveset distortion, speech/voice processing.
*  ***PVOCEX*** (.pvx) analysis file support for all pvoc-related programs. This is the standard phase vocoder analysis file format used in Csound. See also the downloadable utilities (Mac, Win32), with example files, in the companion PVXTOOLS distribution:
*  play program **pvplay** will play  mono/stereo .pvx files.
*  classic CDP directory utility **dirsf** now recognises .pvx files with format details.

What's needed?

* Users to build, test, ask questions, report bugs!


[updated 27/12/2022]