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-state support.
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. For this sprint
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 of
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 end up
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 pressure on
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 is significant.
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 panel
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 the
Support for VST 3 in Cantabile is just about done, but may be abandoned due to some technical difficulties. Over the last two weeks I’ve been adding support for VST 3 to Cantabile 3. This has gone fairly well although Steinberg’s documentation could be alot clearer on some
I’ve decided that blog comments are just about the worst form of communication possible. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the feedback, it’s just there are better ways of doing it. So today I’m closing the blog comments and switching to Trello. Goodbye Comments Firstly,