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Cordyceps is a harness for the Open Source project Composer’s Desktop Project (CDP). CDP has been in development in some form or another since 1980. It does things to audio that no other tools can do - things that cannot be done in realtime, because they are time-domain bound. There have been many attempts at making CDP accessible to mortals, to varying degrees of success. There have been none to date that are anything like Cordyceps.
Cordyceps is an opinionated tool - choosing to completely obfuscate which of the 200+ CDP subprocesses are implemented. Parameters and processing choices are chosen with one global slider: chaos. From here, you have to listen to the audio output and identify sounds that you like or dislike. Choosing these will guide you through the maze of CDP by ear - a novel experience for such an insanely deep project. Each sound added to the pool for processing is mixed together and normalized - only pitch can be directly modified prior to processing. Files generated by cordyceps can be directly dragged into the DAW of your choice.

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