GIG PERFORMER BLOG ARTICLES
Best Practices for deploying VST plugins on Windows
Guest post by Gig Performer user Jim Erwin— Keyboard player with The Suburbans . Best Practices (okay... my practices) for deploying VST Plugins on Windows .I've seen multiple approaches to installing VST plugins on Windows. After a number of years of building new...
Using SampleRobot to import sounds from proprietary plugins to a sampler for use with Gig Performer
Many DAWs come with a collection of (often very good) proprietary plugins for synthesis and sampling. However, proprietary audio 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...
My plugin has so many output ports – which ones do I use?
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 AU (Mac only), VST3 and VST plugins by just connecting them visually. However, you may have wondered why some plugin...
Play with Gig Performer Piano VST: host software in live use
Note: 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 VST host application for...
How to use the same set of PC messages to select parts in any song
For users coming to Gig Performer from other audio plugin 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 song you’re...
Gig Performer is NOT a DAW!
Gig Performer is NOT a DAW! Gig Performer is an audio plugin host for live performance and session musicians, part of your instrument. . Think of the main view of your DAW containing everything you need for a session as analogous to just one rackspace in Gig...
The hidden power of the MIDI In Block
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 MIDI device and feed them to connected soft-synth plugins. It has important other functionality that often...
Updated Remote Control Lemur Template for Gig Performer 3
Note: the main article that also includes the updated remote control Lemur template for Gig Performer 3 can be found here.------------------------- Among the many new features in Gig Performer 3 is the notion of songs and song parts. To complement this new...
Gig Performer 3 with setlist support debuts at NAMM 2019
At this year’s NAMM show we will be debuting Version 3 of Gig Performer, our VST, VST3, AU live performance audio 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...
Use GPScript to bypass plugins automatically when volume is off
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...
Gig Performer and JamOrigin’s MIDI Guitar 2 plugin
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 recently in touch...
Why we created Gig Performer
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 was naturally drawn to Apple...