Can Cantabile run portably?

[Rellik]

Where does all the configuration live (including registration)?

I've been trying out Cantabile as a host for live performance, and I guess it's kind of cliche to say by now, but it's awesome . Well thought out, and great performance! Question:

So in my live show my host is a laptop. The hard drive is partitioned into C:\ just for XP and drivers and D:\ for all apps (including hopefully Cantabile), plugins, samples, etc.. I keep the hard drive imaged onto an external which I can use in case of a hard drive crash (can happen at any time!).

Now, I'd like to also keep a whole other backup laptop in case of a more serious failure. Unfortunately, it won't be the same model of laptop, so I won't be able to run it from the image on the external HD (due to drivers and XP registration). However, I'd still like to be able to use the D:\ drive (e.g., Cantabile!) from the external! I don't mind installing XP and drivers separately for the backup laptop, but I'd hate to have to install and register all the apps and plugins separately.

So will Cantabile complain if it's being run on a different system than it was initially installed on? i.e. does the configuration (including registration info) live in the registry/application data, or would it be possible to run it completely portably (from program-directory config/registration files) like REAPER/Audacity/energyXT?

[UltraJv]

You may find it in here :

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 90&start=0

[Rellik]

Nope, looks like it uses config files in Application Data. Theoretically there are ways on XP install to have Documents and Settings point to a remote location, but it's a moot point, because:

MojoPac!!!

MojoPac is free light-weight XP virtualization software - basically it runs off of a usb drive and uses the "host" computer's core XP components to run its own desktop. On this virtual desktop you can install any app you normally would (including drivers) - I've gotten this working with Cantabile and ASIO4ALL already, works perfectly

Cantabile being portable wouldn't really have helped anyway, since so many of the synths I'm using aren't portable to begin with.