One of the most often asked questions I hear from guitarists is “why would I use VSTs (plugins) and a computer for my rig?” They typically argue that computers are Expensive Prone to crash Ruined by spilling beer on them Too complicated to use Etc. Interestingly,...
Gig Performer's visual "connect anything to anything else" approach has been praised by our users. They find it simple and easy to modify and follow what's going on. This is especially important for live situations and particularly for musicians who want to focus on their...
Gig Performer is notarized by Apple and can be opened in Catalina. As of version 3.6, Gig Performer itself runs perfectly fine in Catalina. You may be prompted to allow access to the Microphone and you should allow this. The prompt is a little bit misleading,...
Guest post by Gig Performer user Jim Erwin — Keyboard player with The Suburbans Best Practices (okay...
Many DAWs come with a collection of (often very good) proprietary plugins for synthesis and sampling. However, proprietary plugins have one major disadvantage. They lock you into the DAW in which they live. If you ever need to share your tracks with others, or you...
Input and output ports in Gig Performer blocks If you’re already a Gig Performer user, you know that you can easily route audio and MIDI between plugins by just connecting them visually. However, you may have wondered why some plugin blocks display so many ports. Although most...
(This is an English translation of a German article written by Lukas Ruschitzka that first appeared on July 23rd, 2019 in Pianoo.de) Play with Gig Performer Piano VST: host software in live use Gig Performer is a cross platform software application for Windows and MacOS. Gig Performer makes...
For users coming to Gig Performer from other hosts, there is some confusion as to how to configure Gig Performer so you can use the same set of Program Change (PC) or Control Change (CC) messages for different parts of a song, no matter what...
Think of the main view of your DAW containing everything you need for a session as analogous to just one rackspace in Gig Performer. When you switch from one rackspace to another, you are essentially getting a completely new “session” except that in Gig Performer, this...
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...