I wasted much money and time fighting against DAW crashes & idiosyncrasies, and after years I realized just now that I don’t need a DAW any more
This because I just like jamming with my DIY keytar, using a few plugins to build an automatic accompaniment quickly
Cantabile is perfect for that, and its amazing routing capabilities, together with its clean GUI, the many configuration options, the stability, the auto-record feature, and yet the low IT footprint make it my loyal companion
If you ever decide to sync a Daw with Cantabile on the same computer, I use Blue Cat Connector. For me, it has cured the the long standing discussions about Cantabile becoming a vst. Maybe not for others.
No…I am not paid supporter for Blue Cat. (although I should be)
Thanks for the tip, but I doubt I will use a DAW for jamming, considering that I just love that, and I am actually reselling both Ableton Live and Bitwig: The first one for the constant crashes, the second one because none of my 2 controllers works
Well, I think I have to keep the little one just in case I want to build some multitrack song, even if the new Scaler 3 maybe able to give this feature: time will tell
Even if I suspect that the MIDImix is faulty because I cannot have the sliders acting on one key-set only (2 of the sliders activate 2 sliders of the other key-set as well), and the 2 first slider works in the opposite way (up vs down) compared to the others
After some further reasoning, I decided to give away both DAWs because I am trying to make my hobby life easier
For example, in photography I changed a complex and heavy mirrorless set with one of the best Panasonic-Leica bridge camera around, so I can shoot from macro to 600 mm with one only light whatsit
The same must happen for music, even because I found that my current main problem is CPU, not RAM as in the past
Yes, after many crashes with every DAWs, Cantabile included, I realized that my system is unsuitable for plugins that suck my CPU, not my RAM that is huge now, and it happens both with sample-based and model-based plugins
So I am reselling all plugins that suck my CPU (all UJAMs), and I am coming back to those that save my CPU (the Toontrack’s)
