I was just thinking exactly that! I am in the process of reproducing in Unify a few layered patches that I had implemented as “states” in Cantabile racks. In this way, it will be easier for me to use the same layered sounds in my DAW…so I thought: it would be great to have a plugin capable of loading Cantabile rack files, implementing the same MIDI and audio routings as coded in the file itself. It would not need to be a “Cantabile VST”. Of course it would need an audio and MIDI engine to process input and produce output.
The next thought was: a similar plugin exists! it is Unify! If only we could convert a Cantabile rack file into an equivalent Unify preset file…which apparently is just an XML file.
Now, I know that Unify architecture is not as flexible as Cantabile (e.g. you are limited to four aux buses). In that respect, it would be easier to implement the opposite conversion (convert a Unify preset into a Cantabile rack file). A clever conversion program, however, could exploit the fact that you can nest Unify instances within Unify itself…now that’s a task for much more than an afternoon of coding, so I do not volunteer for it. Just food for thoughts…and sorry for the OT!