A couple of weeks ago I picked up a Surface Pro 3 in order to properly implement touch screen support in Cantabile 3. I haven’t had a chance to work on that yet, but I have installed it and on the Surface’s high-res screen at 200% scaling
Last week while writing blog posts and guides about Cantabile 3, I became quite fed site’s web server. Time for a clean up… Over the years Cantabile’s (and Topten’s) web site has moved around quite a bit. The most recent version was running on ASP.NET on
Cantabile supports user-created custom themes (for the main window) and layouts (for the large status panel) and now there’s documentation on how to do it! * Creating Custom Themes * Creating Custom Layouts
Cantabile 3 now supports hot swapping of MIDI devices! This has been a long time coming, but finally Cantabile monitors for newly added (and dropped) MIDI devices and will automatically reconnect MIDI input and output ports on the fly! No need to restart Cantabile, you don’t event need to
Along with the other more major changes I’ve made to Cantabile this week there have also been a collection of smaller but important improvements including: * ability to hide the main toolbar * route icons * invoking transport actions from triggers * per-route setting to ignore global transpose settings * activity indicators on
One of the surprisingly in-demand features for Cantabile has been the ability to change the color of plugin and rack slots. Colored racks was one of the first things I implemented in my first attempt at Cantabile 3. Lots of people asked for it and liked what they saw
Without doubt, the vast majority of crash reports generated by Cantabile are related to plugin scanning. While Cantabile recovers and continues the scan if you restart it this is not very user friendly. To resolve this Cantabile now performs the scan in a separate process that can be monitored and
Cantabile now supports a new “Quick Controller” which allows quickly performing certain actions by entering a number followed by a single letter command. For example, to load the song with program number 23, just enter 23 and press ‘S’. The Quick Controller is available now in build 3048. For more
Keep an eye on things with Cantabile 3’s new Large Status Panel. Usage Using the large status panel is fairly simple — see this guide. Custom Layouts On the surface the status panel is fairly simple, but under the covers there’s quite a lot going on. One of the
Over the last few days I’ve been knocking off a selection of unrelated minor features and improvements. There’s nothing too exciting here, but all part of generally improving usability. Session and Session State Control of Active Keyboard Octaves The on-screen keyboard has two “active” octave ranges — the
Cantabile 3 now supports Triggers which are used primarily for configuring external MIDI equipment when loading a session or session-state. Better Session State Control Functionality of Cantabile 3’s triggers is pretty much identical to Cantabile 2 except that all trigger properties are now controllable by session-states. This
Cantabile 3 now supports a slick new “Dark” theme. The setting to switch themes is in Options -> General and requires restarting Cantabile. In the process of making the dark theme, I’ve also cleaned up and modernized the default Light theme making it slightly less grey (more white) and