I am very pleased to have my nearly 150 Superior Drummer 3 drumsets loaded into Cantabile Performer as songs now. It works quite well and is much better than using Cantabile programs/presets for them, and I can have certain commonly used drumsets preloaded and switch between them with no delay.
I do have a few questions:
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When first starting Cantabile it takes maybe 30 seconds and says it is loading my eight preloaded songs, which makes sense, but after this they do not then load quickly the first time they are used. They only load quickly after they have each been loaded once. In other words, the pre-loading only seems to work the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc time each song is switched to and not the 1st time. I would expect them to load immediately the first time each preloaded song is selected as well as every subsequent time.
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Clicking “Exclude from Preload” often doesn’t stick and has to be reselected many times before it stays checked for a song.
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The song program numbering in a setlist runs out at 128, and then restarts with a 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 numbering pattern.
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Sometimes the arrow keys on my windows laptop keyboard will navigate the list of songs, and sometimes not. I can’t find a reason why. I do have the SD3 window docked.
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Is there any way to hide the top plugin bar under the menu bar? The one with the left and right arrow triangles and the “1: Plugin Snapshot 1” dropdown menu. I no longer need this since I only ever have one of these per song
Thanks very much for the help. This is absolutely the best way to host Superior Drummer 3 for edrumming!
