Cantabile’s File menu has had a clean up: Some notes: The Open command now opens either Songs or Set Lists — there are no longer separate commandsThe Save commands work on the currently active view — the focused song, rack or set list. You’ll

This video covers Cantabile 3’s media player support For a playlist of all Cantabile videos, see here.

This video covers recording in Cantabile 3’s support for song and rack states. For a playlist of all Cantabile videos, see here.

Cantabile now supports breaks in the set list. Set list breaks can be used to divide up your set list into groups of songs. They serve no purpose other than to cosmetically group your songs. To create a set list break, just right click

Cantabile’s Show Notes now support variables: These variables can be used to automatically substitute song and state names into the show notes as well as any other variable like date time, performance metrics etc… See this page in the guide for full list

Cantabile 3 includes one year worth of free updates. Beyond that first year there is a annual subscription to continue to receive updates. This post clarifies some confusion over this new pricing model and also explains the rationale behind it. It’s Not a

Cantabile now supports a new setting to control the sensitivity vs stability of the tempo detection when synchronized to external MIDI clock sources. Since MIDI Clock events don’t include an explicit indicator for tempo, Cantabile needs to measure the interval between clock events

This video covers recording in Cantabile 3 including audio and MIDI recording, the auto record capabilities, multi-channel/track recording, playback and related topics. For a playlist of all Cantabile videos, see here.

Cantabile’s executable files are now all digitally code signed. When running the installer you should now see a much safe looking User Account Control popup like this: Compare the above to the older unsigned installers: What is Code SigningCode signing ensures that a

This video covers the absolute basics of working with Cantabile 3 — installing Cantabile, what is a plugin, downloading plugins, loading plugins into Cantabile and some tips and tricks along the way. For a playlist of all Cantabile videos, see here.

Cantabile 3 Solo and Performer now support per-MIDI Route velocity curves and the ability to apply a curve to other controller types. Per-MIDI Route Velocity CurvesCantabile has supported velocity curves for a long time now however they’ve been implemented as a MIDI filter.

This is the first in a series of videos planned to help get people up to speed with Cantabile 3. Ports and Routes are key concepts in Cantabile 3. This video walks through what ports and routes are and how they’re used to

Yesterday I was setting up to create some training videos for Cantabile 3 and couldn’t figure out how to capture the sounds from Cantabile effectively. As they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” so I set about fixing WASAPI shared mode. Shared

Cantabile 3 build 3120 released today introduces a couple of minor, but handy new features including some new display options, a new learn mode in the MIDI route settings window and the ability to suppress metronome measure sounds. Display Format OptionsIn Options | General you’

Cantabile now supports Suppressing and Blocking MIDI Bindings to solve problems with two common binding scenarios: Using notes as the source for a binding and suppressing the noteSending a song or state change event followed by a series of configuration events.Suppressing BindingsUnlike Cantabile

Cantabile 3 has finally been launched! Over two years in the making I’m finally unleashing it on the world! If you’ve been following Cantabile 3’s development and especially if you’ve been running the preview builds of Cantabile 3 that were

Software licensing is often a contentious issue. Balancing the need for developers to protect their products while at the same time providing a simple and flexible system for the end user is not easy. Cantabile 3 introduces a new licensing system and this post

Cantabile 3 Build 3105 available today includes some changes to MIDI Controller Assignments including a new target object kind and a new name. A New NameMIDI Assignments have been renamed to “Bindings”. Although the functionality hasn’t changed yet, the new name reflects planned

Cantabile now has a discussion forum! Cantabile Community is a Discourse based discussion forum for Cantabile and related topics. It’s only been running for about a week and even though I haven’t promoted it much yet there’s already some great discussions

Previously I’ve written about plans to improve Cantabile’s song management. After a couple of weeks coding and a further few weeks stabilizing it, it’s now in pretty good shape. This post attempts to sum up all the changes and provide a

Cantabile 3 now supports checking for “experimental” builds. Better Experimental Build PackagingCantabile 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

Today I implemented a new feature for Cantabile — linked session states. BackgroundIn 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

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

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 ChangedIf you’re familiar with recording in Cantabile 2, you’ll notice quite a few changes: In Cantabile 2 the

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