Cantabile 3 now supports Triggers which are used primarily for configuring external MIDI equipment when loading a session or session-state. Better Session State ControlFunctionality of Cantabile 3’s triggers is pretty much identical to Cantabile 2 except that all trigger properties are now controllable

Cantabile 3 now supports a slick new “Dark” theme. The setting to switch themes is in Options -> General and requires restarting Cantabile. In the process of making the dark theme, I’ve also cleaned up and modernized the default Light theme making

Cantabile 3 Preview 4 is available now. The main new feature in this release is support for MIDI Assignments. MIDI Assignments took much longer than expected — mainly because I re-designed the user-interface a couple of times over to get it just right. I was

Cantabile 3 now supports custom hot-key bindings. This has been available for a little while now, but I just realized I never wrote it up. It’s pretty simple, in Options there’s a new page “Hot Keys”: You can edit key existing key

It took a bit longer than expected, but Cantabile 3 now supports MIDI assignments! New UIThe 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

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

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

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

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

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. BackgroundIn case you’re not familiar with after-touch it’s a MIDI event that some keyboards

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here’s the challenge: translate Cantabile into another language in one afternoon. Challenge Accepted! In these early builds of Cantabile 3 I’m trying to address all the mundane tasks that often get left to the end and in the process turn into a

A few weeks ago I released a preview build of Cantabile 3. Since then I’ve received some great feedback. I’ve also released a some follow up builds to address the issues raised. I think it’s now stable — so what’s next?

Two weeks ago I posted about getting a minimal version of Cantabile 3 out. Yesterday the build went out and so far things have gone fairly well… If you’re a licensed user of Cantabile 2 Solo or Performer you should have received an

For the last week and a bit I’ve been flat out working towards releasing a very minimal version of Cantabile 3. Things have progressed nicely, here’s an update… It’s amazing how much work it takes to get a piece of software

With the increasing availability of high-resolution screens on Windows machines, I’ve started to receive a few support requests about plugins that appear with a very tiny user interface. The problem stems from the fact that most plugins simply don’t support hi-res screens.

Over the last few days I’ve received a couple of enquiries asking when Cantabile 3 will be available — to which I’ve been replying “I don’t know”. Not a good answer and it made me realize that without any sort of target

One of the most exciting things about Cantabile 3 is its new audio engine. Just about every aspect has been re-engineered to best suit Cantabile’s requirements going forward. Improved Audio and MIDI RoutingOne of the main things I wanted to fix in this

In my previous post I mentioned Cantabile was getting a new, cleaner, more minimal user interface. Well here is a first look at it: Some things to note: The set list and toolbar aren’t functional yet and are there simply as part of

Since the last time I wrote about Cantabile 3 I’ve decided to take a completely new approach to it and for the last 8 or 9 months I’ve been working on a complete ground-up rebuild — from the audio engine to the user-interface