Posted by Paco (via moderator) on Mon, 04/03/2006 - 00:07.
(Originally posted 10:09:03 3/31/06)
I have already been using Cantabile 1.0 for a handful of software-synth auditioning sessions, for which it is ideal, especially for the setup I'm currently living with with a hardware MIDI keyboard as the only real controller, which I only have space for presently several feet away from the computer. It has been a joy to use Cantabile just for this, though I plan to try using it to clean up the VST/VSTi folders that I have repeatedly installed and re-installed to, and resulted in a rather messy registry list.
Just think, Anyone nowadays with a compatible sound card can get on the 'Net, download just an ASIO driver, ("ASIO for all" works well)Cantabile, and a good "space synth" (there are several commendable and very musical space synths available free from HG Fortune. No harm plugging Vladimir, is there? He's not paying me.) and play with themselves....wait, wait, I mean "ENTERTAIN themselves" for hours and hours! (Or is this like simulated s*x for the ears while on a tight budget?)
"Space synth" i
s kind of dodgy, since everyone knows that in the vacuum of space, sound as we know it cannot exist; but I can't think of a better name--there might be more accurate terminology, involving something lofty like " real-time automatic composition," a phrase that to me resembles "cybernetic home cooking."
You'd be surprised how little fun it is,jumping up and down from the desk here and using a wireless mouse, squinting to see much of what happens on my (single monitor-dual monitor close in my future now) LCD from a mere ten feet or so distance. And the preceding is actually what I came up with to solve this problem. --Aah, where's that LFO intensity trim knob? Where are my glasses?---- It was a lousy fix. The wireless trackball, a Logitech (which I thought pretty reputable) is temperamental (hangs, gets lost) and has trouble with 12 feet of range where ever I place the transciever. So by comparison, Cantabile is golden!! And it's freeware!! Thanks so much!!
Paco G.
Cantabile v1.0
(Originally posted 10:09:03 3/31/06)
I have already been using Cantabile 1.0 for a handful of software-synth auditioning sessions, for which it is ideal, especially for the setup I'm currently living with with a hardware MIDI keyboard as the only real controller, which I only have space for presently several feet away from the computer. It has been a joy to use Cantabile just for this, though I plan to try using it to clean up the VST/VSTi folders that I have repeatedly installed and re-installed to, and resulted in a rather messy registry list.
Just think, Anyone nowadays with a compatible sound card can get on the 'Net, download just an ASIO driver, ("ASIO for all" works well)Cantabile, and a good "space synth" (there are several commendable and very musical space synths available free from HG Fortune. No harm plugging Vladimir, is there? He's not paying me.) and play with themselves....wait, wait, I mean "ENTERTAIN themselves" for hours and hours! (Or is this like simulated s*x for the ears while on a tight budget?)
"Space synth" i
s kind of dodgy, since everyone knows that in the vacuum of space, sound as we know it cannot exist; but I can't think of a better name--there might be more accurate terminology, involving something lofty like " real-time automatic composition," a phrase that to me resembles "cybernetic home cooking."
You'd be surprised how little fun it is,jumping up and down from the desk here and using a wireless mouse, squinting to see much of what happens on my (single monitor-dual monitor close in my future now) LCD from a mere ten feet or so distance. And the preceding is actually what I came up with to solve this problem. --Aah, where's that LFO intensity trim knob? Where are my glasses?---- It was a lousy fix. The wireless trackball, a Logitech (which I thought pretty reputable) is temperamental (hangs, gets lost) and has trouble with 12 feet of range where ever I place the transciever. So by comparison, Cantabile is golden!! And it's freeware!! Thanks so much!!
Paco G.