GIG PERFORMER BLOG ARTICLES
The Rig Manager
The use case for the Rig Manager is to isolate the particular keyboards and MIDI controllers (MIDI pedal boards, etc.) from your actual rackspace setups. The fundamental idea is: - you name your physical devices in the Rig Manager, - and you use those names when you...
The Audio Mixer/Router Plugin
A much requested feature in Gig Performer was an Audio Mixer, a multi-channel gain control plugin. 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 4ch (two...
The GPScript Programming Language
Gig Performer ships with a built-in programming language GPScript that can be used to develop very sophisticated behavior for live performance. . The Motive . GPScript gives Gig Performer some "open endedness", providing the ability to add features that are not...
Toggle MIDI plugins on/off in the same rackspace without getting stuck notes
In this article, you will learn how to toggle MIDI plugins on/off in the same rackspace without getting stuck notes Gig Performer allows you to distinguish between NoteOn and NoteOff events in our MIDI Filter plugin: Why is this interesting? Well, turns out it gives...
Using Recall Value On Load and Also recall on Activate widget options
By default, Gig Performer 3 saves the values of all widgets using a "last value saved" algorithm. So, when you change a widget value and save your gig, and afterward you reload your gig, that widget will have the same value. In some performance situations, you may not...
Rackspaces vs Program Changes
In this article we will compare rackspaces vs program changes as methods to change sounds.. Background .The normal way to use Gig Performer® is to create rackspaces each of which contains a collection of plugins connected together as desired. A rackspace might contain...
How to play “Won’t Get Fooled Again” with Gig Performer
In this article we explain how to play "Won't Get Fooled Again" with Gig Performer. There's a video of the complete process at the end of this article. . Background . There are many YouTube videos of people showing how to play this great song. They are busy playing...
Using Loopback to send audio from one application to another
MacOS has a nice built-in feature called IAC (Inter-app Communication) that allows you to connect MIDI applications together and communicate with each other. There's nothing built into Windows. However, there are third-party applications like virtualMIDI that do the...
Predictive loading just saved my a– !
The Predictive Loading feature just saved my a-- !!! Seriously! I'm getting ready to go on a tour in Japan with the Security Project. My main laptop is a 5 year old Macbook Pro with a 17" screen. It has 16Gb RAM and SSDs instead of hard drives for both speed and...
Using Touch OSC app as a remote display and a touch control surface with Gig Performer
In this short video - we will show you how to use Touch OSC app as a remote display and touch control surface with Gig Performer to control your live rig and display the most important information about the current status. You can download Touch OSC from this link....
OSCulator – convert any input to any output
If you're on a Mac, there's a great app out there called OSCulator that can be used to transform pretty much any input to any output. For example, you can configure it to receive MIDI notes and have it send keystrokes (yes, that's right, as if you are typing) to an...
OSC Broadcast Mode
In this article, you will learn what is OSC Broadcast Mode and how to use it. Gig Performer is an audio plugin host with extensive OSC support. When you normally configure OSC settings so that Gig Performer can communicate with your control surface such as Lemur or...