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What's New in Cantabile 2.0

If you have used previous versions of Cantabile, you’ll find many new features in this version.

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)