Creating templates

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Hi folks,
I’m watching the videos and enjoying the capabilities of Cantabile 3.0 Performer. I’m using C3.x gingerly, little by little each and every gig on this new high-spec HP Envy my kids bought for me for Christmas.

I’m beginning to understand the ins and outs of Cantabile but the whole MIDI thing is a turkey shoot from the start. I’m beginning to understand that you need to understand MIDI comprehensively in order to use Cantabile in a complete and useful manner.

My question is: I just want to create a template that I can start with as a blank slate for every song. I play a MIDI accordion. I use the right hand as Ch1, the left hand chords as Ch2, and the bass as Ch3. Every time I create a new rack it wants me to save it as a song. What?

I guess I just don’t know what I’m doing yet. I’d like to start a new song with all keyboards and VSTis already populated, and in a given state. Can someone please point me to a resource that can explain what I’m looking for?

Thanks

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Hi @EFaaT,

The easiest way to setup a “template” at the moment is to simply create one song file as the template and then when you want to create a new song, open that template file and use “Save As” to save it as a new separate file.

Beyond that, you might be able to use racks as reusable components in each song, but it really depends what you’re doing. Perhaps post a screen shot (or more details) on a couple of song variations and we can suggest the best way to set it up.

Note sure what you mean by that. When you create a linked rack it will prompt for the name to save the rack file as - is that what you’re talking about?

Brad