Cantabile 3 now supports checking for “experimental” builds. Better Experimental Build Packaging Cantabile has always had experimental builds. The builds are exactly as they sound — experimental. They usually haven’t been as well tested and may contain urgent fixes or unproven features and ideas. Experimental builds for Cantabile 2 were
Today I implemented a new feature for Cantabile — linked session states. Background In my previous post about improving Cantabile’s song management I mentioned that in future, session states will be the recommended way for implementing song parts. One of the implications of this is that if you have a
In my previous post Fixing Song Management I outlined some thoughts on how Cantabile’s song management could be cleaned up and improved and asked for feedback. The feedback has been extremely useful and thanks to everyone who took time to write to me — lots of good comments, ideas and
Cantabile 3 now supports Recording (and Auto-Recording). What’s more it’s been cleaned up and simplified considerably compared to Cantabile 2. What’s Changed If you’re familiar with recording in Cantabile 2, you’ll notice quite a few changes: * In Cantabile 2 the audio and MIDI recorders were
One problematic area of Cantabile 2 that I haven’t addressed properly in Cantabile 3 yet is the way songs are managed. I did make an attempt at it with some improvements to the set list but I’ve since realized this is a bigger problem and needs a better
Cantabile 3, Preview 6 is now available and adds support for media players: It also includes performance improvements, MIDI assignments for routes, level meter clip indicators, improvements to the insert plugin dialogs and some other smaller improvements and bug fixes. Media Players The big ticket item for Preview 6 is
The other day I received this screen shot from user Pete who seems to have Cantabile running reliably on Linux: That magic that makes this possible is Wine — http://www.winehq.org. If you’re not familiar with this project their about page describes it as follows: Wine (originally an
Recently I’ve received a couple of requests for the ability to enable and disable MIDI routes using a MIDI CC. This seemed like a useful and easy thing to add so I’ve updated Cantabile 2 to support it. Normally MIDI routes are controlled by sub-sessions where each sub-session
For the last few weeks things might have appeared quiet with Cantabile 3, but in fact I’ve been really busy. Mostly with GUI work for the OS-X port (which I’ll write about later), but also I’ve been performance tuning the audio engine for multi-core processors. The Challenge
As mentioned previously I’ve been working on getting Cantabile 3 working well with touch screen devices like the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Here’s a (very rough) demo video: Getting touch support right is mostly an exercise in subtle details, but here’s the highlights of what’s changed:
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 it
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