Hi, I need your help.
I play songs of Marillion. Many songs are linked together and have a shared audio base (single audio file).
With Cantabile 3 (even before version 2) I created a unique song with synchronized audio base to transport and every scene matched an actual song.
But now I would like to change the structure.
I’ve saved every state as a song and I joined all the songs in a setlist.
All songs contain the same rack.
All songs contain a media player (not in a rack because you can not sync). The content file is the same for all the songs, however, each has a saved part. So each song carries within it a media player with its interested part.
But I have these problems when I change the song:
If I play a note, the sound breaks and I must sound the note (the same rack and the same vst plugin).
The audio base (with click synchronized) is interrupted. I thought to solve by creating a trigger that loads automatically the next song at the end of the saved part and starts the carry from the next, but unfortunately I can not create it. I can not activate the trigger at the end of the saved part.
This is a fairly tricky setup and I’m not sure you’re going to get there with separate songs in Cantabile as it stands.
For the played notes - these can carry over across songs but all the routing needs to be in the rack - not the song file. ie: Main Keyboard -> Plugin -> Main Speakers inside a rack should be uninterrupted across songs. Compare this to Main Keyboard -> Song -> Rack MIDI In -> Plugin -> Rack Audio Out -> Main Speakers - which when switching songs will break the song -> rack route and cause the interruption.
As for the media player this is more of a problem but I’m not sure I really understand what you’re going for here. Is this an audio or MIDI file and what are you syncing to?
For the played notes, you’re right … I had not thought.
As for the media player, I’ll explain.
In every song I have three media player.
MP 1 - Contains 1 “.mid” file. The file contains a the map of the time (this is synchronized with the master)
MP 2 - Contains 1 “.mp3” file. The file contains sounds of clicks and exchange signals (this is synchronized in real time)
MP 3 - Contains 1 “.mp3” file. The file contains a base (this is synchronized in real time)
The three files in the media player are the same for all the songs.
The only difference is that each song carries only part saved.
OK - as mentioned I don’t think this is going to work across songs. Cantabile doesn’t really have support for this - though it might if I was to get media files in rack sync working but unfortunately it’s not a high priority right now.
Also, you say you’ve got the mp3 files synced to the master in realtime - you realize that audio files won’t time stretch to stay in sync - it’s only the play back and position controls that will sync in this case.