Suggestions on going full Cantabilized

[Corky]

Check these gurus out:

Managing Rack States

I don’t think I’m the ultimate authority here - guess everybody will use Cantabile their own way. But personally, I tend to mix just like you do: I have a number of generic patches like “Soul Organ” or “Blues Organ” that I use in a number of songs (my “Soul Organ” patch sounds great when layered with a piano and controlled via expression pedal). And of course, I only change these very carefully, since a change will affect all songs that incorporate them. Whenever I have the urge to edit one of…

Managing Rack States

My rack states are broken into two groups - at the top I have “generic” rack state names, like “Warm strings pad” or whatever, and these I give a single program number, like 1 or 14 or whatever. Then after all my generic patches I have a “separator” rack state, named “=========”. Then after that I have song-specific rack states, named just after the song, all with bank 1, so for example 1.1 or 1.14 etc. This keeps them nicely separated. For some racks where I have lots of different categorie…

There are many different ways to go on this. This has been discussed many times and there are a lot of good ideas floating around on the forum. Do a search for whatever you are looking to do.

Personally, I have linked racks for most of my often used plugins. In those racks, I have different states that serve as presets, so I can use that same plug in other songs, or change presets within songs without having to load another plugin. I am in 5 Bands, with 450 + songs total, so I have to be organized to keep from losing my mind. There are many instances where I will use a plugin out of a rack, mostly because it is song specific. For the VSTs I use the most, racks have saved me many headaches.

Regards

Corky

Edit:

@RickRepsher

Have any of you ever found a control surface that aids in controlling any one of the CloneWheel VST’s?

I am running an EMU 49 keyboard as my upper keyboard. I have plenty of rotary knobs that I can bind in C3 for drawbars, or whatever in VB3, B5, and Blue3. I would prefer a keyboard with 9 sliders, just haven’t made the investment yet. There are many controllers on the market that have 9 sliders and other switches that work very well.