Gig Performer’s MIDI In Block is not just your everyday block for receiving MIDI events. It can do much more than just receive MIDI messages from an external device and feed them to connected soft-synth plugins. It has important other functionality that often relieves you from...
Among the many new features in Gig Performer 3 is the notion of songs and song parts. To complement this new functionality, the Lemur template has been updated significantly and now supports Setlists Songs and Song parts You can download the new template here. A deeper...
At this year’s NAMM show we will be debuting Version 3 of Gig Performer, our VST/VST3/AU live performance plug-in host for Mac and Windows systems. At the Anaheim Convention Center, January 24-27, live demonstrations of Gig Performer 3.0 will be presented at Ilio (ACC Hall A,...
Gig Performer is pretty efficient in terms of CPU cycles but sometimes plugins use up a lot of cycles even when they're (apparently) not doing anything. In a traditional channel strip model, it's pretty straight forward to automatically bypass plugins when the channel strip fader...
MIDI Guitar 2 from Jam Origin is a wonderful plugin if you need to convert your guitar sound into MIDI and subsequently to any sound you want limited only by your collection of instrument plugins. I have been using both MIDI Guitar 1 and 2. We were...
The short answer is we needed it ourselves! The long answer is, well, much longer, so read on. Although I was using various MIDI sequencers and DAWs since the 80s, I only got back into live performance about nine years ago. As a Mac user I...
Every application has its strengths and weaknesses. In the table below - we try to compare Gig Performer™ with the most common, comparable applications on the Mac OSX and Windows platforms. [supsystic-price-table id=10] ...
Quick answer - if you’re using Gig Performer, it’s pretty trivial. I never used side chaining myself. In fact I wasn’t even sure what it was for a long time. But I got forced into find out a few days when a potential customer asked if...
We recently got a question from a user who wanted to be able to switch rackspaces and variations using a Novation Launchpad. However, that product only produces MIDI Note Events but Gig Performer expects Program Change MIDI events so what do you do? While such things...
I’m primarily a guitar player and for years I’ve been searching for a “better” reverb plugin. I was never overly picky about my delays for some reason, but reverbs really change the sound of one's guitar significantly. I use reverbs with both my acoustic and electric...
Guest blog written by Greg Nelson Shortly after the turn of the current century, I started to experiment with Virtual Studio Technology, and was very impressed with various software emulations of organs and synthesizers, and sampled pianos. I started to explore the possibility of replacing my...
Omnisphere supports a mode where it can load several sounds simultaneously so that you can switch from one to another with no delay and with the ability to leave the old sound audible until you release all notes. Of course, Gig Performer's Patch Persist™ facility...
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Creating a second GP instance is easy. Just select File->Create new instance (or open an existing one) and you're all set. This works great on OSX and on many Windows machines without further tweaking. Unfortunately, some Windows ASIO drivers still allow only one application (Gig Performer...
Gig Performer 2 introduced a programming language, GP Script which, while still evolving, will allow users to extra add functionality into Gig Performer. Let’s see a simple example of GP Script in use. Gig Performer supports Tap Tempo, the ability to measure a sequence of taps and...
The Recorder provides a simple way to capture every audio input channel to its own wave file, paving the way to capturing the entire raw performance of a band for later post processing. The feature is aimed mostly at FoH engineers who are using Gig...
The Rig Manager adds three significant features to Gig Performer. The ability to use alias names for keyboards and widgets The ability to switch from one set of controllers to another The ability to distinguish controllers that use the same USB identifier Aliases Take a look at the image above....
A much requested feature in Gig Performer was a multi-channel gain control plugin so that instead of creating separate gain controls after each synth plugin, you could use a single plugin to control the gain of multiple plugins. Our plugin comes in 8ch (four stereo...
Gig Performer 2 ships with a built-in programming language that can be used to develop very sophisticated behavior for live performance. GPScript gives Gig Performer some "open endedness", providing the ability to add features that are not already built in to the product. A full...
Although we're really busy working on Gig Performer 2.x (more on that later), we put out a minor update to Gig Performer 1.x today where it's now possible to distinguish between NoteOn and NoteOff events in our MIDI Filter plugin. Why is this interesting? Well, turns...