Cantabile 3 Preview 4 is available now. The main new feature in this release is support for MIDI Assignments. MIDI Assignments took much longer than expected — mainly because I re-designed the user-interface a couple of times over to get it just right. I was hoping to also get
Cantabile 3 now supports custom hot-key bindings. This has been available for a little while now, but I just realized I never wrote it up. It’s pretty simple, in Options there’s a new page “Hot Keys”: You can edit key existing key bindings and create new ones.
It took a bit longer than expected, but Cantabile 3 now supports MIDI assignments! New UI The UI has been completely redesigned from Cantabile 2 and now lives in a new tab on the home screen: Also, the assignments can be more precisely edited unlike v2 where you had to
Today I added a new feature to Cantabile 3 where plugins that only have a single built-in preset slot (eg: Kontakt) are automatically extended to give a generous 128 slots. Besides being a handy feature, this also provides better control and integration of these plugins with Cantabile’s session-
Cantabile’s audio engine now builds on OS-X! Although I’m primarily focusing on Windows for the preview builds, in each sprint I’m committing some time to porting pieces of Cantabile to OS-X. For the last sprint I ported all the sample conversion and re-sampling routines.
A few weeks ago I posted about an machine translation of Cantabile into Italian. Thanks to the kind efforts of Cantabile user Stefano Dall’Ora there’s now a non-machine translation available. Stefano has put a lot of effort into this and I’m extremely grateful. Given the heritage
Yesterday I finished most of the functionality for session states. Combined with the new routing capabilities of the audio engine it’s feels like Cantabile 3 is really starting to come together. When I originally designed the sub-session support in Cantabile 2 I completely under-estimated how they would
I’ve recently had a few support enquiries about how to use after-touch in Cantabile so thought I’d write up a quick summary of how it works. Background In case you’re not familiar with after-touch it’s a MIDI event that some keyboards send when the
Cantabile 3 Preview 2 is available now to licensed users of Cantabile 2. Also, the first few steps towards and OSX version have been taken and a German translation is available. If you’re a licensed user of Cantabile 2, you can download Cantabile 3 Preview 2 from the same
Today I spent some time looking into why Cantabile 3’s user-interface sometime felt a bit unresponsive — especially while loading sessions or starting/stopping the audio engine. I ended up making some non-trivial improvements to the interactions between the UI and the audio engine — and the resulting improvement
Work on Cantabile 3 Preview 2 continues with the metronome now finished. As you can see, adding the metronome fleshed out quite a bit of Cantabile’s previously sparse user-interface. There’s the metronome button itself, the metronome toolbar, the transport buttons, a new “Control” menu and the status
Cantabile 3’s on-screen keyboard is very similar to Cantabile 2’s, but it’s been cleaned up and simplified: All the surrounding buttons and titles have been removed leaving just the keyboard and a small channel selector on the bottom right. It’s also resizeble from this: all