The Composers Desktop Project (CDP) is an international cooperative network based in the

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that has been developing software for working with sound materials since 1986. Working on a cooperative basis and motivated by user-specific compositional needs, the project has focused on the development of precise, detailed and multifaceted

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-based sound transformation tools. Currently, CDP provides sound transformation software (named after the project itself) for Windows and Mac OS X that has been evolving for over 20 years. In 2014 the main components of the CDP were released as an open-source package licensed under the

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. Makefiles are now available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. Originally, after a study to determine if it was possible and/or feasible to port CMusic from

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mainframe systems, the project released the CDP software along with corresponding ''SoundSTreamer'' hardware for the

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CDP History http://www.composersdesktop.com/history.html and later ported the software to

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. The software tool-set is designed specifically to transform sound samples mostly via

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processing (non- real time); the software is considered complementary to real-time processing and

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