OWN THE STAGE<sup>®</sup> WITH GIG PERFORMER<sup>®</sup>
OWN THE STAGE<sup>®</sup> WITH GIG PERFORMER<sup>®</sup>

OWN THE STAGE® WITH GIG PERFORMER®

Gig Performer® is the most advanced VST/AU plugin host for live performers

WELCOME TO GIG PERFORMER®

Own The Stage®

Guitarists, keyboard players, vocalists, drummers, wind players — build and control your live music rig with Gig Performer® to transform and elevate your live performing experience by gaining complete control over the sound of your instrument or voice. Our innovative approach and focus on usability is paired with an intuitive rack design, called a Rackspace™, which transforms your plugins into the most powerful, yet user-friendly live music software system. And our impressive list of cutting edge features allow you to control multiple instruments, layer sounds and employ authentic effects… easily, and with little power usage.

NEW FEATURES IN GIG PERFORMER® 4.8

STREAMING AUDIO FILE PLAYER

Load thousands of songs into your Gig files without depleting RAM resources, removing the ceiling on backing tracks available during a show.

TIMELINE AND ACTIONS

Add markers on your audio track to effortlessly trigger actions as your song plays back, letting you focus on playing, not software control.

AUTO SAMPLER

Effortlessly capture CPU-intensive synth sounds and play them on your preferred sampler, reducing CPU usage and creating new sound possibilities.

RADIO GROUPS

Make mutually exclusive parameter switching simple with Radio buttons.

MIDI FINGER TAP

Stay in perfect tempo as you step through a MIDI file with finger taps, freeing you from the constraints of a metronome.

IMPROVED PLUGIN MANAGEMENT

Organize plugins with custom tags and keywords, to improve workflow and efficiency.

CUSTOM FONT SUPPORT

Enhance readability and visual appeal by integrating your favorite fonts into Gig Performer, making your workspace truly yours.

LOCKED WIDGETS

Guard against accidental changes while maintaining MIDI control, eliminating surprise sound changes during live performance.

SHOW PLUGINS IN USE

Instantly visualize which plugins your gig files rely on, ensuring seamless compatibility and effortless updates.

MULTIPLE TAP TEMPO ALGORITHMS

Achieve the right tempo every time you tap with multiple algorithms that fit your style of music and your time feel.

EVEN MORE WIDGETS

Dive into expanded visual creativity with a range of new knob, fader, and slider styles, elevating your front panel design.

WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS

Experience high efficiency in Gig Performer with enhanced shortcuts, boosting your productivity and enjoyment.

IMPROVED IN GIG PERFORMER® 4.5

MORE WIDGETS

Gig Performer 4 adds many new widgets to help you make your front panels even more attractive. New additions include drum pads, a sustain pedal, plastic knobs, colored sliders and a new maleable shape.

LAYOUT MANAGEMENT

Improved widget scaling, arbitrary panel colors, transparency make it easier to design your front panels. Replace widgets with other related widgets using drag and drop. More widget customizations and user definable widget value reset.

UNDO WIDGET MOVEMENTS

One of the most requested features, it is now easy to undo widget movements and positioning.

MIDI MESSAGE HELPER

A new intelligent dialog makes it easy to edit or change previously learned MIDI messages. Easily define multiple MIDI messages to be sent out through MIDI Out blocks.

ADJUST CHANNEL COUNT PER PLUGIN

Restrict the number of audio ports displayed on each plugin independently

INPUT MUTING AND OUTPUT FADING

Control the input muting time and output fade time independently

FASTER PLUGIN FINDER

Find the plugin you need using multiple partial search strings

TOUCH FRIENDLY INPUT

A new large keypad makes it easier to enter values, complete with immediate validation

NEW TUNER DISPLAY

A new tuner view, faster and more accurate, with the ability to change the A reference tuning frequency

GP SCRIPT ENHANCEMENTS

Numerous language additions and enhanced callbacks. Over one hundred new system functions. New global GigScript and Scriptlet Plugins.

SCRIPTLETS

Scriptlets are plugins created with GP Script. They are useful for creating more sophisticated MIDI processing tools.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

Gigfile templates, System Actions Plugin, MIDI Channel Constrainer Plugin, MIDI In Note Follow, Double-click widget reset, faster start up time, prettier GUI, enhanced Tap Tempo, ...

GIG PERFORMER® 4 FEATURES

GLOBAL RACKSPACE

Share your most used effects globally and use them from all your rackspaces. Keep your looper or backing tracks running while you change other sounds on the fly. The Global Rackspace™ can pass audio in both directions. Preprocess all incoming audio before adding local effects. Create instruments that are always available.

ZOOMABLE WIRING VIEW

Gig Performer’s new wiring view lets you layout your plugins neatly regardless of the size of your screen. Use a large virtual view, zoom in or out and scoll horizontally or vertically to position your plugins wherever you need them without squashing them together.

SCALING CURVES

Create keyboard velocity curves and widget scaling curves. Choose from predefined shapes or draw your own. Copy them or save them for later reuse.

MIDI FILE PLAYER

Load up to 128 standard MIDI files into the MIDI File Player Plugin. Enable or mute individual tracks. Route different tracks to different plugins for the best possible sound. Use Tap Tempo to control playback speed or let the song control Gig Performer's global BPM.

FAVORITES AND PRESETS

Select multiple interconnected plugins and save as a named favorite for easy reuse. Favorites automatically appear in plugin insertion menus or you can simply drop them into Gig Performer from a folder. Saved plugin presets also appear in popup menus and selecting a preset will automatically insert the required plugin.

PROBABILISTIC SOUND DESIGNER

Create completely new sounds or tweak existing ones using controlled randomization of selected parameters of any plugin.

COMPATIBILITY

Gig Performer 4® runs on both OSX (Universal for Intel and Apple Silicon) and MS Windows so you can enjoy its benefits on whichever platform you are most familiar. You’ll also enjoy full OSC support. You can use touch surfaces such as Lemur or TouchOSC to control Gig Performer®, as well as applications such as Max for even more sophisticated control.

Gig Performer® supports VST and VST3 formats on both OSX and MS Windows, as well as the AU (Audio Unit) format on OSX.

OTHER GIG PERFORMER® 4 FEATURES

SONGS AND SETLISTS

Songs let you reuse your rackspaces. For example, a single rackspace™ containing an acoustic piano sound can be reused to cover 10 songs needing piano. Reusing rackspaces greatly reduces load times and memory needs. Guitarists will love that song parts can be accessed directly using a MIDI pedal controller, as well as from a control surface or Gig Performer’s main window.

PREDICTIVE LOADING

Gig Performer’s Predictive Loading™ feature, which slims resource demands by loading only the next few rackspaces that will be needed, can now be applied at the song level. All parts of a song are loaded into memory when the song is selected for glitchless, instant switching. At the same time, Predictive Loading limits CPU and memory requirements.

BI-DIRECTIONAL MIDI CONTROL AND SYSEX SUPPORT

Control surface support has been strengthened with the addition of bidirectional MIDI control of widgets on Gig Performer rack panels, and the program now allows programming and transmitting sysex (MIDI System Exclusive) messages, commonly used with hardware synthesizers.

LOW CPU USAGE

We've spent countless hours making sure that Gig Performer uses as few CPU cycles as possible.

CROSS PLATFORM (VST, VST3, AU)

Works on OS X and Windows devices. Your GIG files can be opened on both platforms. Supports VST, VST3 and AU plugins

BUILT-IN AUDIO/MIDI RECORDER

Record all incoming audio inputs easily for later post processing in a DAW. Saved wave files are automatically timestamped - perfect for touring bands. All incoming MIDI data can be saved to a Standard MIDI File, complete with tempo changes.

INSTANT SWITCHING

Switch between your rack spaces - INSTANTLY and GLITCH FREE. Easily create variations of your rackspace™. Switch between variations seamlessly - even while holding notes.

MIDI & OSC Support

Use your existing MIDI and OSC devices and apps. Map any control to any controllable parameter.

RIG MANAGER

Our Rig Manager allows you to move between your home and studio setup with a single click

ABLETON LINK

Synchronize Gig Performer's tempo with applications running on other connected computers or tablets.

CHORD PRO SUPPORT

Gig Performer 3 adds support for the Chord Pro lead sheet format. This allows Chord Pro documents to be created, edited, and linked to songs in a setlist so a chords-and-lyrics chart can be opened when a song is selected

VISUAL WORKFLOW

Forget about channel strips, busses, auxes and sends. Just route audio from one plugin to another by connecting them together with wires. Functionality like inserts, sends and side-chaining become trivial.

GPSCRIPT LANGUAGE

A powerful, proprietary scripting language allows you to customize your rig's behaviour to the max.

ADVANCED MIDI FUNCTIONS

Associate specific MIDI devices with particular plugins easily and visually. Use transpose, channel mapping, MIDI out settings and more...

AUDIO MIXER/ROUTER

Built in 4, 8 and 16 channel mixer/router

SOUND DESIGN MADE EASY

No more confusing busses, sends, auxes or inserts used by traditional channel-strip approaches. Using the front and back panel views, simply connect plugins to each other any way you want, then custom-design Panels to control each Rackspace™. You can then design a number of Variations, which allow multiple sets of settings for a single Rackspace™… and switch INSTANTLY between them.

For instance, if you create a Rackspace™ consisting of an electric piano and some effects (phase, reverb, tremolo)  then you can switch instantly from fast deep tremolo, to slow mellow tremolo plus reverb, and so on, even while still holding notes. Plus, you can customize your Panels using a variety of available widgets (knobs, switches, levers, LEDs), and colored face plates.

Gig Performer back view

VERSATILITY

Gig Performer® makes the most of your plugins whether you’re using it to control the effects processing of your instrument, your voice, or both simultaneously. You can also use Gig Performer® with your existing environment, by training it to recognize the controls on your keyboards, OSC apps, MIDI expression pedals and control surfaces, and then use them to control plugin parameters. Of course, you’ll also enjoy expected features such as layering and splitting operations, and individual transposition.

Design Your Sounds Like A Pro

Say goodbye to the confusing busses, sends and inserts of traditional channel-strip approaches. Simply connect plugins to each other any way you want.

Multiple Panels Per Rack

Panels make it easy to group and share common collections of controls tied to your physical devices and to plugin parameters in individual rackspaces.

MADE BY MUSICIANS, FOR MUSICIANS

We’re already using Gig Performer® on stage and on tour.

Download it today and find out why are we so excited by its abilities!

THEY SAY

  • Gig Performer is known for its user-friendly interface and ability to easily manage multiple plugins and effects

    ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com

  • Even more than my old DAW, Tracktion 7, Gig Performer is visually/conceptually intuitive, particularly using wire connectors in the racks. And things just plain work, including audio inputs and outputs (like my old Blackbird Onyx Firewire, even in combination with a Focusrite sound card. Low CPU usage means I can use a relatively cheap Mac Mini running High Sierra, which still works with my Mackie Blackbird Onyx Firewire sound board. I had to dumb down the Mini to work with High Sierra, but GP3 worked no matter what.

    Michael M

  • I have found Gig Performer to be a much more solid, performant product, and I love the ability to patch everything together and see it visually.

    Kirk A

  • GP 3 has allowed me to setup my live rig in a whole new way and it super reliable, thx!

    Ronny R

  • I’m coming from a receptor rig. Since receptor was discontinued, I was looking for a stable software alternative. I briefly looked at mainstage, but gig performer just ticked al the right boxes. I ‘m a keyboard player and an audio engineer. So the flexibility is a big plus. I can built complex chains with al my favorite plug-ins very easily. I also like that everything is controllable trough midi hardware. I do not like to look at a screen during a set. I know Gig Performer is running silently in the background, I have my set loaded in and everything just works.

    Jan H

  • GP has set us apart from everyone. Imagine 2 guys who are accomplished musicians (I don’t mean to brag), who can play a gig and sound like a 6-piece band with synchronized lighting and video, at a duo price, all due to GP.

    Stanley S

  • I tried a few others too (including Mainstage) but in all honesty, yours was miles ahead of the others. The sheer flexibility and customisation available suited me perfectly and allowed me to map my midi controllers with absolute ease. The quick and hassle free routing of audio and midi signals was also so easy and trouble free. Reliability was also a concern and GP3 has remained rock solid in use, even when switching connected devices off whilst GP3 is still running, it doesn’t completely crash your machine, it just clearly and effortlessly lets you know what’s happened!

    Sean B

  • I am a organ/keyboard player - so I have midi bass pedals, a piano controller, and a keyboard controller - a lot going on at the same time. Everything works well together and I can just play rather than fuss with the computer.

    Carmine F

  • I tried mainstage and it was complicated. I had a vision for my guitar sound to pass through plugins instead of my pedalboard for live music. Did some research and found Gig Performer. It was works like my pedal board....wires and devices. Truly amazed of the sounds that come out! Thanks for this dream come true!!!

    Eric B

  • In my experience Gigperformer is much more reliable Mainstage. Playing live music is my full time job and Mainstage has failed on me at gigs a number of times. Gigperformer is much more stable.

    Francis M

  • I have been keyboardist for over 30 years and it is very obvious that Mainstage is not a professional solution. CPU usage is unacceptable, Mainstage is unstable and unreliable due to CPU problems (even on most powerful computers). Gig Performer does provide the power, the optimal CPU usage, the versatility to allow me for the first time to switch from complex workstation based keyboards to live rigs with a Mac computer.

    Thomas B

  • We tried MainStage and frankly the deeper we got into it the more frightened we became. We simply were not able to build a stable show and when looking for tech support got nowhere. Fast forward to now and the deeper we get into GP the more excited we get frankly. VERY stable and a terrific community for brainstorming. Where MainStage always felt like it was boxing us into a corner we feel like there are multiple options now for anything we try to set up using Gig Performer!

    Peter D

  • Gig Performer was so easy to get to grips with and I found I had a usable setup within a short time during my first use of the program. I love the way it is customizable and relates to both hardware and software instruments and effects.

    Martin S

  • GP makes it possible to completely trust the software and its integration with my MIDI-controllers so I can focus on playing in the “here and now”.

    Jacob K

  • I’ve been using GP since March 2020, it’s the only app I’ve used that is stable and versatile

    Steve O

  • I love the way Gig Performer let me do anything I can imagine.

    Christophe P

  • This program is so crazy useful. It has a huge future as more people discover it. You get huge value in your first 60 seconds using it and it just ramps up from there.

    Kevin F

  • After 13 years with Mainstage and Ableton Live, GigPerformer gives an actual peace of mind when it comes to stability.

    Mikko P - https://www.mikkopatama.com

  • Man oh man did you guys get this right!!!!! No more Mainstage for me - best change I've ever made switching over. I was able to create over 100 patches in the space of an afternoon. I won't say how long it took when I first started using Mainstage

    winip (via YouTube)

  • GP has absolutely changed how I run my guitar rig and has finally allowed me to run it how I want to rather than how the software wants to.

    Mark Braithwaite

  • After more than 20 years of using a PC to run my keyboards on stage, I finally don’t live in fear of the next patch or song change.

    Andy Myers

  • Yay finally someone with brains developed the vst host from heaven I purchased Gig Performer and OMG. This is by far the best live VST host for live work. Thumbs up big time. Look forward to gigging with this beasty vst host from heaven. Yay.

    Paul Patto - https://www.facebook.com/paul.patto

  • It’s actually CHANGED my studio by giving me the ability to have “physical” control of virtual instruments on the fly without the need for the GEAR.

    Michael Whalen (two-time Emmy award winning composer) - http://michaelwhalen.com

  • I love it when I get a new instrument or tool to use it gives me a fresh outlook and Gig Performer has done exactly that. I now find I am creating more complex sounds for my stage performances and being confident that they will work. Gig Performer was created for musicians who want reliability and a familiar way to create and recreate their sounds on stage it is not just another way to use your plugins for me it has become another instrument. Thank you Gig Performer you are a Great Performer.

    Blue Weaver (The Bee Gees, The Strawbs)

  • Thank you guys for creating a "Musician's Tool" instead of another Engineering Tool

    Bill H

  • Very impressed with Gig Performer. It is so intuitive that probably it doesn't need a manual

    Chris

  • Gig Performer has liberated my best audio plug-ins from the confines of the studio and finally made it practical to bring multiple instances of them to the performance stage. Simultaneous MIDI processing makes a versatile system. I now have one very compact live setup!

    Jim Meyer - http://www.jimmeyer.ca/stick/jimmeyer.html

  • Gig Performer is like a breath of fresh air for laptop performers. Stable, efficient and without all the extra unnecessary features that increase cpu and distract from a smooth playing experience. It’s a lean, mean performing machine and will find a home with many players looking to augment, or completely replace their hardware rigs. P.S. I just made a gig with 50 instances of Uhe Diva in it. Resting cpu = 2%. wow!

    Simeon H. - http://www.simeonharris.co.uk/Simeon_Harris/Home.html

  • Finally, a plugin host that truly addresses the needs of live performers

    Trey Gunn (King Crimson, Robert Fripp, David Sylvan, The Trey Gunn Band) - http://www.treygunn.com/

  • Gig Performer is a game changer for me. Not only can I create any combination of sounds with this but also perform them live with seamless switching. The only limitation with Gig Performer is your imagination.

    Michael Cozzi (Shriekback, Sky Cries Mary)

  • Gig Performer is an amazing tool for my unconventional set up. Allowing me to access the full power of my laptops into my system. It is quickly becoming an incredible asset to my live shows.

    Robert Frazza (Crimson ProjeKCt, Stick Men, Todd Rundgren, Lindsey Webster, U.K., Orleans, Joe Jackson)

  • I was also impressed that it handled midi fx, I wasn't expecting that 🙂

    Mark H.

Scaling Curves

Scaling curves allow you to control the shape of the output of a widget or convert an incoming note velocity to a new velocity. Various predefined curves are available and they can be tweaked as necessary. You can also just draw your own curve as well to achieve the effect you require.

 

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MIDI File Player Plugin

You can load up to 128 MIDI song files in a single plugin instance. Switch from one song to another, mute tracks and/or change their channel numbers. Tempo can be controlled by individual songs or you can use the global tempo and tap tempo to control the BPM interactively.

 

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Favorites and Presets

Create a sound by placing and interconnecting your desired plugins, such as a synth, some effects and perhaps a mixer. Select them all and then save the selection as a named favorite. The favorite will subsequently show up in all plugin insert menus, making it easy for you to recreate that configuration whenever you need it again. This feature is also very powerful for creating your needed sounds on your studio computer and then transferring them to your touring laptop.

 

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Probabilistic Sound Designer

Parameters you select in an open plugin are captured into the Probabilistic Sound Designer dialog window. When you click Randomize, you're only adjusting those selected parameters. Each entry in the PSD dialog has a curve but unlike widgets where the curve controls scaling, in the PSD the curves are used to define the probability of particular values being selected. Make sure the filter cutoff never gets too slow so as to block all sound. Perhaps adjust the max range of the VCA attack parameter so that the sound doesn't have too much delay. Constrain the octave ranges of the oscillators, perhaps ensuring that 1/3rd of the time we select 8' and 2/3rds of the time we select 4'. The possibilities are endless.

 

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More Widgets

Numerous new widgets are included in Gig Performer - a new sustain pedal, plastic knobs, drum pads and more colored sliders. Shapes can be colored with different borders and fill colors and morphed from rectangular to circular. Your creativity is now the limit to creating fabulous front panels in Gig Performer.

 

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MIDI Message Helper

Select MIDI devices by name. Choose the MIDI message type and adjust the appropriate parameters for the specific type

 

  

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Layout management

Gig Performer supports arbitrary resizing. Layout your widgets the way you want - resize the main window and the widgets will grow or shrink as necessary to maintain the same interrelationships. No matter what size screen you have, your front panels will still be neat and usable.

 

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Undo Support

If you move your widgets around and/or resize them, or even delete them by mistake, the Undo facility will correct your mistake. Minor moves to a widget by mistake will no longer spoil your design

 

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Plugin Channel Count

Some plugins support a large number of outputs and they depend on the traditional channel strip to control how many ports should be available.   When you only need a stereo pair, it is convenient not to have a large horizontal block. In Gig Performer, the number of available ports  is controlled by the channel count override, which can be applied to individual plugins and will be remembered when the gigfile is reloaded or if the plugin is saved as a favorite.

 

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Input muting and output fading

Rather than a single audio length tail, Gig Performer 4 gives you the ability to control input muting and output fading separately. Input muting controls how much time it takes for audio input to be silenced when you leave the rackspace. Output fading controls how much time will be taken for audio to fade out when you leave the rackspace.

 

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Faster Plugin Finder

Instead of searching through menus of perhaps hundreds of plugins (you know who you are!), the Quick Plugin Finder makes it easy to find the plugin you need by simply typing partial strings. For example, as shown here, to find the Modartt Pianoteq 7 plugins, it's enough to type pia mod 7 (in any order, by the way)  to restrict the list of available plugins to those matching your query. The Quick Plugin Finder also knows about manufacturers, presets and favorites.

 

  

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Touch Friendly Input

Any entry field can be changed by either dragging your mouse (or finger) up or down, or by using the large popup touchpad where you can just tap on the squares to enter a value. The large popup keypad also does validation so you can't enter an invalid value. You can also just tap the BPM field to pop up a larger view where you can quickly change tempo, tranpose, trigger Tap Tempo and enable Ableton Link, the last allowing you to synchronize Gig Performer with any other application that also supports Ableton Link.

 

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