On-screen Keyboard

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 way up to this:

Here’s the channel selector:

Dropped Features

In the spirit of simplification and only including features that are actually useful I’ve dropped some functionality:

• Keyboard Capture
• Global/Session On-screen Sliders and Buttons
• Program Change Selector
• X-Y Controller
• The option for one octave starting on the A key. It now only supports two octaves starting on the Z and Q keys.

Each of the items above links to a Trello card for the associated feature. If you’d like to see any of these features re-instated sooner rather than later, please sign-in to Trello and vote on it.

Using It

Actually playing the on-screen keyboard is identical to version 2 however the way it interacts with the session is new. The on-screen keyboard appears just like any other external MIDI device. You can create MIDI ports for it:

and route from it (or to it) just like any other device:

Routing to the on-screen keyboard causes it to light up the keys for note events that it receives.

All this will be included in Cantabile 3 Preview 2, coming soon.