Anyone have any experience with Cantabile ?

http://www.cantabilesoftware.com/
 
It's just a VST host thingy, for as you might have guessed, hosting VST's, VSTi's. It comes in 3 versions, Lite (FREE), Solo and Performer. I am looking for something like this so I don't have to fire up Sonar and go through the motions just to have a mess around with a few things. Or does anyone use anything similar which they would recommend ?
 
I'll Probably download the Lite version and install it on one of my other machines and try it out, I'm a bit wary of installing stuff on my main machine, any in fact, so just thought I would see if anyone had any experiences or knew of another alternative first.

Hi, thanks, I installed the 'Solo' Demo version on one of my other PC's, the demo's allow you to use it for 30 days, similar experience, easy installation and everything works like you would expect, easy to get up and running, the recording part of it, while it worked fine was a little unintuitive, to me at least, but you get used to it fairly quickly, not sure if I want the recording feature, although it would be handy and turn it into a nice little scratch pad for ideas, if I decide I don't want the recording feature then the Lite version will do fine.

Got to check out Cantabile again.
 
My perennial soapbox for EnergyXT if you are looking for vsti management, which for my application was a significant cut above Cantabile awhile back when I compared the two.
 
XT loaded onto a track opens a full control 3D modular environment unattainable in Sonar, and to be honest, can't do it in Reaper either. Means one Sonar track and as many synths as you can chain in any stereo field you want to place them.
 
Easy fast management of vst/vsti. Works as a standalone DAW though I've never used it that way.
 
Another plus, the included synthesizer is excellent, with hundreds of presets written by users.
 
Also maybe a bit hard to grasp at first. You need to go to the modular environment after the plugin directories are set.
 
Drag and drop any number of synths or effects, parallel, series. Tweak, rewire.
 
Open the mixer and set the parameters for each synth or effect. If it gets any better than this, please tell me.
 
Download demo is fully functional except you can't save anything until registering. Should be in the toolbox of anyone using Sonar. Demo available at:
 
http://www.energy-xt.com/index.php?id=0101
 
They got a sale for 39 euros or whatever. Wish is was this cheap when I bought it.
 
John

Thanks, I have been messing around with the Cantabile Solo version demo, which does what I want, but I will look into Forte as you mentioned, and see which I like the best, then I'll grab that.
 
Thanks all

 
All I wanted was a vst host Which Cantabile Lite does very well.
 
Dan