What is Cantabile?

Cantabile is a music workstation for live performing musicians. It’s specifically designed with keyboard players in mind but is just at…

Right Click Create Binding

Cantabile now has a new way to create bindings. Just right click on the setting you want to bind to and choose “Create Binding”… You’ll be presented with this screen: All you need to do now is move the knob/slider/button on your external controller, hit the OK

Tool tips, split rack editing and more…

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,

Sostenuto MIDI Filter

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

Why is Cantabile 30x slower than Forte? (TL;DR — it’s not)

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

Configuring Audio Inputs

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

Moving Cantabile’s Settings Folder

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

Adding Effects to Incoming Audio

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 -&

Routing Modes and Order of Bindings

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,

Replace Plugin Command

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

Improvements to Bindings

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

GlitchFree eBook Available

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