Composers Desktop Project: Workshop 1
For New CDP Users

This Workshop is designed for users who are new to CDP. It shows how to use over 150 functions, with specific examples that fully document what to do.

The CD comes is supplied with printed copies of the 9 Worksheets and their associated Play Lists. Complete sounds for all the examples, which can be auditioned in sequence for comparative listening are also included.

The link below to the information page in .pdf format provides a specific example of how the material is presented, along with a list of all that is contained on the CD.
Workshop CD 1£12.50

Workshop 1 Information PDF
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Composers Desktop Project: Workshop 2
For intermediate to advanced users

CD contains 2 Workshops:

How to Compose with CDP Texture Programs Begins with a comprehensive survey about setting up the environment to work with these programs, and how to enter the data that is used to shape the textures.

The core of the Workshop consists in 21 worked examples, with soundfiles and a Play List for comparative listening. There are also useful charts, Presets and Patches for quickly loading the parameters for each example, which can then be tweaked to explore other possibilities. The Information Page link below goes into much more detail regarding its contents.

The Second Workshop is about Transposition, Shifting and Combinations and covers all the main programs in the CDP software that deal with these functions, most of which are in the Spectral Domain (analysis & resynthesis). The 'Combinations' referred to are interactions of pitch traces (outlines of significant pitch movement in a sound), a powerful but difficult part of the CDP software.

The Information page below also goes into more detail about this Workshop. All soundfiles are included on the CD.
Workshop CD 2£14.00

Workshop 2 Information PDF
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)