
To minimize duplicate loading in pre-loaded setlists, try to put ALL (or at least most) of your plugins into re-usable linked racks, and use songs simply to route audio and MIDI between racks. Better to have pre-loaded setlists then you can have Cantabile automatically pre-load the racks you need for your song. No need to have a multi-gigabyte instrument load every time when starting Cantabile - you might not even want it this time. Not sure why prevents this?īut TBH, for the use case of instruments used in multiple songs, the best mechanism are actually linked racks that’s exactly what they were created for. That is wrong! Of course you can! You can freely route midi and audio from and into your background rack using loopback-ports.Īargh - that’s a tricky one! So you need to create a specific MIDI input port as a loopback target for your songs to route MIDI to your background rack - it does actually work! Not really what loopback ports were created for, but a creative solution - congrats!īut it’s a bit of a clunky solution it would actually be nice to have the MIDI and audio ports of the background rack available as targets and sources in our songs.

Please also check the behaviour when running Kontakt standalone without C3. On my side it’s about 1,3GB with “Session Horns - Performance”. Please do me a favor and check the size of the instrument that is loaded into memory. My computer needs about 10 seconds to load session horns. This also allows you to change sounds in all songs with just a few clicks.Īnyway: It seems that your settings in Kontakt might not be right.

Load big libraries and instruments, that you use often into the background rack and use only small VSTs like synths f.e. With that work-technique you have the best of both worlds. Instruments that are loaded into the background rack are loaded during startup of Cantabile and after that they are available in every song. But: I’d suggest to put large libraries into the background rack. Please have in mind that C3 normally loads the instruments per song while forte loads all of them when starting forte.
