4/21/2021 0 Comments Cantabile Vst
This guide is a simple walk through for inserting a couple of plugins and connecting them together.In this case it created a MIDI route from the default MIDI input port (Main Keyboard) to the plugin and an audio route from the plugin to the default audio output port (Main Speakers).
![]() This is deliberate to prevent accidentally creating feedback loops. You can also use Routing Diagrams to more visually configure objects and routes. The trick to getting this working is to use a virtual MIDI cable. Once installed, run it and type CantabileIn into the New Port Name field and press the button to create a new virtual MIDI port: (You can use the built in loopMIDI port but the names can become confusing if you have a few of these virtual cables running). Setting Up Cantabile Now start Cantabile and go to the Options MIDI Ports page, click the Add button and choose Input Port. Give it the same name CantabileIn and place a check mark next to the MIDI device called CantabileIn this is the virtual MIDI cable that we created above. While were in Cantabile, lets setup a simple VST plugin to listen on that port. Click the Add Object button, choose Plugin and select a VST instrument. Once youve loaded the plugin, change the source of the route in the Input Ports section to Cantabile In: OK, weve now Cantabile running with a plugin loaded and listening on the virtual MIDI port called CantabileIn. Setting Up the MIDI Program For this example Ill be using VanBasco Karaoke Player but similar options should be available in any other MIDI software. Go to the programs settings, and locate the setting for where MIDI should be sent. In the case of VanBasco, this is simply the Output Device drop-down in the Setup screen. ![]() If youre using a generic player like VanBasco, the MIDI files may have different instruments on different channels, or if youre using a MIDI sequencer different tracks will generally be on different channels. There are many different ways to handle MIDI channels in Cantabile, but the simplest is to simply send each MIDI channel to a different plugin. Youll notice now there are two routes in the Input Ports section. Notice that in the Control column both routes are current set to Omni This means send all incoming MIDI to the target without affecting the channel numbers. What we want instead is to send channel 1 to the piano and channel to the organ. Click the Omni setting for the first route and choose Channel 1: Repeat for the second route and choose channel 2. It should end up looking like this: You can do lots of other things with MIDI routes too. For example you might like that second route to listen on channel 2, but send everything to the plugin on channel 1. Go back to the route settings and change the target channel to channel 2: How you set things up here really depends on your requirements and the capabilities of the plugins youre using but Cantabile gives you a lot of flexibility here including keyboard splits, transpose settings, velocity curves and lots more. Whats Next If youre new to Cantabile and VST in general, you might find this video on getting started handy which covers all the basics of downloading and installing plugins, loading them into Cantabile, setting up routing and more. One final tip: if you restart your computer, dont forget youll need to restart loopMIDI too. If youve got questions, please get in touch or check out the forum.
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