Just wondering: How many velocity layers does Cantai have for solo and choral patches? Or is there only a volume change without any timbre changes?
Thanks for your interest. I have the same problems as fesle23. But received the reply from cantai support today that they are on it to solve this bug. Hopefully soon.
I get prompted to put my license code back in every 20 seconds. Worse still: my workplace blocks the cantai website since the firewall is so restrictive, so I’m really stuck at the moment. I can hotspot my phone in an attempt to activate my license, but then 20 seconds later it wants to go through the same rigmarole again. After putting in my license about 5 times each on all SATB parts, I had to give up. I’m waiting for an update which will hopefully address this issue. The beta didn’t have it.
there are no timbre changes or velocity layers. Velocity layers (rather dynamic layers) is anyway something for sample libraries and the vocal synth technology is quite different here. Richard has said is it planned for the future to add the possibility to change timbre as well (as SynthV can already do) but I don’t know how long it will take.
That happens to me, too. Cantai will suddenly stop rendering and ask for my activation key. Oddly, when I enter my key, nothing happens; but If I type in a random series of characters, it seems happy and starts rendering again. I contacted Cantai about this. Haven’t heard back yet.
I also have to put in my license key as soon as I am offline
and hope, this problem will be solved in the near future.
On an unrelated topic, does anyone know, please, the mechanism by which we’ll be notified of updates to the Cantai files?
TIA…!
So, interesting issue. I was “playing” with the work that I shared a few days ago. Cantai’s pronunciation of “on” as “in” or “un” was bugging me so I changed “on” to “awn.” That worked great, well sort of.
The female choir voice would sing it but the male choir voice would not. Freshly rendering from the Cantai interfaces would not bring the male voices back. I had to close Dorico and restart and then allow a minute or so for the male choir rendering before I had all the voices.
Has anyone else had an issue like this?
Don’t worry!
If you’re in the Cantai Mailing-list, you’ll get an E-mail, Richard deCosta will inform use here in the forum and on the Cantai Homepage.
Maybe Steinberg will inform us too?
Steinberg definitely won’t inform you when there are updates to third-party products.
Yes, I recognize this, I encountered the same thing as you describe.
I had also an issue, that notes of let’s say measure 10 was sung by the female choir in measure 8. Saving the work and starting Dorico anew was the solution to get all things on the right place again.
Thanks. It appears to be a bug of sorts or maybe a lack of understanding of the correct way to go about such things.
The second issue you describe occurred when I had a non-zero value in pre-roll. As soon as I corrected that to zero, that particular issue went away.
I definitely appreciate you informing us of that, Daniel. 
I remember now, that the cause of the second issue was, that I changed the rythm of 2 notes, but I didn’t adjust the lyrics. After I restored that, the mess in Cantai stayed until I started Dorico anew.
Moved this post about performance issues to more specific thread.
Unfortunately, our Cantai profile page doesn’t tell us what the current version of Cantai is
Bill - I can imagine that Richard and team are extremely busy atm.
Thanks; I have faith that - as others have kindly pointed out - we’ll know one way or another 
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For those who haven’t see this (YT), definitely worth a look.
Essentially how ‘Make it Exist, then Make it Good’ is going to work in the immediate future in terms of a major expansion of the libraries towards more ‘classical’ (à la Tallis Scholars, VOCES8 - actually with a member of that ensemble) singing style; and ‘housekeeping’ improvements to the website… e.g. for profiles etc.
I know I’m not the Bill you’re looking for…but I agree with you; no doubt, the Cantai team is unbelievably busy.
My 2 cents in this conversation: I’m pleasantly surprised at the quality of what I’ve been able to get out of Cantai at release and think it’s far better than the web renderer. I feel it was worth the wait.
Bill,
No prob. I agree with your assessments of the prospects!