What is it?
The Composers Desktop Project is an international cooperative network based in the UK. CDP consists of composers and programmers guided by a vision of amazing sounds integrated into the fabric of music. Find out more about us here

Sound Transformation Software
CDP provides a software-only music system for PC and Mac OSX that has been evolving for over 20 years. This software package is designed specifically to transform existing sound samples for musical purposes, mostly via off-line processing (non-real time). This software is complementary to real-time processing and audio sequencers.

The vast range of CDP processing functions and extensive documentation provide an essential toolbox for innovative sound designers, electroacoustic composers and educators. While Graphic User Interfaces are available (Sound Loom & Soundshaper), CDP also has the capacity to handle scripting and input data files. It has been used recently for the sonification in connection with the LHCsound Project, as a result of which we have begun putting together a manual to show how the CDP software can be used for sonification purposes.

Discover more about the current release of CDP, Release 5.0.

Hard work is taking place behind the scenes to finalise our Release 6. Oh dear, testing and documenting has taken a long time. (21 August 2010: It is coming soon! – early September is the new target. The main part of the release is a major set of programs for working with multi-channel soundfile diffusion.

Other Topical Information

• CDP FEATURED COMPOSER: Adam Stansbie
  
  
• Read an informative interview with Trevor Wishart, key creative programmer for CDP. He has recently been awarded the Giga-Herz grand prize, and is here interviewed by ZKM Radio.
  
  
• [21 August 2010] Visit the LINKS page for news about the Release of ProcessPack, created over the past year by Richard Orton and Archer Endrich, working as 'Wellspring Music'. It features DISPERSAL, a highly-specified module to fragment and pattern a soundfile. A new and quite unique module called HOVER has just been added.
  
  
• UPDATES of programs and documentation are available for existing CDP Release 5.0 Users. New: SPECNU, a comprehensive package to clean up soundfiles. Enter your passcode on our Updates page. (Pre-Release 5.0 users should not download these updates because they will introduce incompatibilities into their CDP System.)
  
  
• Please note that CDP's contact email address is: archerhgm(at)talktalk.net (active as of 13 January 2009).
  
  
• (The image on the right is for purposes of illustration only.)