What's New in Cantabile 2.0
If you have used previous versions of Cantabile, you’ll find many new features in this version.
See also Features and Editions
Cantabile Solo
- Audio file playback support. (wave and mp3)
- Support for multiple triggerable audio/MIDI players.
- Recordings list panel, shows all recordings in a session with options to auto-delete unwanted recordings.
- Inplace plugin editor (show the UI of one plugin on Cantabile's main window - as opposed to as a popup).
- Ability to import and export racks.
- Separate bypass and suspend settings on plugins.
- Save Plugin Selector Preset command (saves plugin state to plugin selector for easy later re-use)
- Ability to record audio input and output simultaneously.
- Constant Latency MIDI (avoids MIDI event jitter when using large audio buffer sizes)
- External Tools (create commands to launch programs - workstations, media editing tools etc...)
- Musical time MIDI recording (recordings synced to metronome)
- Enforce program change option on plugins (use program changes to switch presets even if plugin doesn't support it)
- Null Audio Driver (for testing or when working with MIDI only)
- Improved synchronization between metronome and media files.
- Ability to capture keyboard even when other applications are active and keyboard capture now automatically disables when on a text box.
- Support for Wave64 audio files. (overcomes 4Gb limit of traditional wave file)
- Faster session switching.
- Office 2007 style “Fluent” user-interface.
- Customizable Quick Access toolbar and Status bar.
- Pinnable recent session menu keeps favourite sessions handy.
- Undo/redo, drag/drop and clipboard support
- Ability to hide, resize and maximize panels on the main window.
- Ability to automatically run Cantabile when Window's starts.
- Tray icon and ability to minimize to tray.
- GUI for managing plugins to include/exclude during plugin scan.
- Manually loading a plugin now automatically adds the plugin to the plugin selector.
- New file format considerably reduces size of saved sessions.
- Improved options dialog
- Improved usability from PC keyboard.
- Improved performance on multi-core CPUs.
- x64 build (requires x64 version of Windows and compatible processor)
- Integrated jBridge support allows use of x86 plugins in x64 version of Cantabile.
- New 100+ page printable PDF user-guide.
- many other miscellaneous improvements.
- Per rack keyboard split and transpose settings
- Session lists (replace Quick Sessions, new UI)
- 8 customizable on-screen MIDI controllers (4 sliders, 4 buttons).
- Support for Unloaded plugins - plugin is unloaded, but Cantabile maintains its state.
- Ability to create per-session MIDI controller assignments for global items.
- Ability right click most UI elements to assign MIDI controller.
- New MIDI filters - Suppress Events, Button Bank, Key Range, Velocity Gate, Pitched Base Velocity Ramp
- More flexible MIDI Controller Assignments - assign MIDI notes, RPN/NRPN events, Real-time Sysex Volume and Balance and MMC commands.
- MIDI Controller Assignments user-interface improvements
Cantabile Performer
Everything from Cantabile Solo, plus:
- Sub-sessions - allows saving multiple named states within the one session.
- Session lists support loading session/sub-session pairs.
- MIDI routing table - easily route MIDI events from input ports to racks or external devices.
- Triggers - send MIDI configuration events on session load, sub-session load, transport play etc.
- Partial sends - two optional partial sends per rack allow routing part of an audio signal to another rack.
- Large Status Panel - large font display of current song, next song, transport position etc...
- Ability to send and receive MIDI clock.
- Support for 64-bit audio processing and recording.
- Off-line Renderer (process an audio or MIDI file in non-realtime and save to audio file)