A couple of days ago a Cantabile user who recenly moved from Forte to Cantabile wrote up this nice post on the Cantabile forum explaining why he made the switch: * Why I switched from Forte to Cantabile While it’s great that he’s pleased with his move to Cantabile,
Cantabile now supports a “Sustenuto” MIDI filter… Using the sostenuto filter is pretty simple. 1. Bring up the MIDI Filters panel for any MIDI route or port: 1. Click the Add button and choose “Sostenuto”: 1. Finally, and optionally, choose which MIDI channels it should work on. What does it
The other day I received an email from someone saying that they’d decided to go with Brainspawn Forte instead of Cantabile because Forte’s CPU load was so much lower. He included the following two screenshots that show both products running with 10 instances of Omnisphere with Forte’s
This walkthrough shows the different ways audio inputs (microphones, guitar inputs etc…) can be configured in Cantabile. The above screen shots shows a typical default configuration for the standard audio input device named “Main Microphone”. It’s configured as a stereo port with the left and right channels connected to
Today’s build (3196) adds the ability to move Cantabile’s settings folder. This issue has come up a couple of times over the past months and is a useful capability for when you want to share or synchronize your settings across multiple machines using some sort of file synchronisation
This is a quick post to explain how to route incoming audio through an effect and then send it back to an audio output. Incoming Audio In order to process an incoming audio signal the first thing we need is the signal itself. To configure this go into Options -&
Up until today, the order that bindings execute has been “undefined”. For most bindings this is perfectly acceptable as the order is irrelevant. For bindings that have a blocking or suppressed routing mode however, this is an important factor and has now been properly defined and implemented. Routing Modes First,
Today I’ve implemented an often asked for feature — the ability to replace a plugin with a different one. There’s a couple of caveats to be aware of with using this command: 1. It can’t be undone — there’s simply too much state information that would need to
Today a new experimental build of Cantabile is available with a significant set of improvements to Bindings. These changes let you do things like bind directly to and from plugins and devices, bind MIDI to MIDI, mirror settings across parameters and the much awaited MIDI Reflection to reflect internal settings
My free eBook on tuning Windows PC’s for reliable real-time audio performance is now available! I’ve been promising this book for quite a while now so last week I decided to just spend the week and get it done. It’s not quite as polished as I originally
Cantabile now shows a MIDI Filter button on each MIDI route and plugin slot: Also, each button has a little green indicator that lights up when the object has one or more enabled filters to give a little feedback on things that might be affecting MIDI processing. Providing these indicators
Cantabile’s new set list building improvements make it a breeze to knock together a new set list… New Add Songs Dialog Previously the Add Songs To Set List command showed a standard file open dialog and while it supported multiple selection it was a little tedious. This has now