Cantabile Lite launch on boot with default settings

Just getting my hands on Cantabile Lite to try it out. Liking it a lot so far.

One thing I really need, is the ability to launch Cantabile automatically at boot time with my default settings and vst plugins preloaded. Is there a way to do that?

Hi @Zulu and welcome!

If you want Cantabile to start automatically at windows bootstrap, you have to add Cantabile to Windows startup programs. There is more than one way to do it and it also depends on which windows version you are using.

Here is a link for windows11 (I have not tested the suggested methods…I have just googled “windows launch program at bootstrap” and this was the first result).

Coming to the default settings, in Tools->Options->Startup/Shutdown you can choose the behaviour of Cantabile at startup. Suppose you have saved your default configuration (loaded VSTs, routings, etc.) into a Song file. Just select “Load this song” in the Startup/Shutdown dialog and browse to your saved song file (you could also select “Use current” if that’s the Song currently loaded). Then close the dialog box. Next time Cantabile starts, it should load your default song with your default settings.

Hope this helps,
Gabriel

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Brilliant! That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

I have one laptop setup where it boots into Cantabile which opens a song that has all the VST’s I use for jam sessions (organ, ep, piano, moog, bass, horns) and I use the 8 pad buttons on the keyboard to go to the song state that has that VST activated. Needed to upgrade to Solo to get that to work - I liked that I didn’t have to open the laptop - just boot up and play.

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