At some point, you may be interested in recording your Gig Performer performance with a DAW.. Background .Gig Performer is designed to be a very flexible audio plugin host to allow you not only to create your sounds but also to perform, in real time, on stage or in a...
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Gig Performer is not a plugin chainer
Gig Performer is not a plugin chainer. Gig Performer is an audio plugin host for live performance and session musicians, the part of your instrument. It looks like this or it looks like that... . ….therefore it is the same as this or the same as that! My bicycle has...
Gig Performer Way vs. The Channel Strip Way
In this article, we will show you Gig Performer Way vs. The Channel Strip Way. Gig Performer users praise our visual "connect anything to anything else" approach. They find it simple and easy to modify and follow what's going on. This is especially important for live...
Gig Performer and Mac Catalina (OS X 10.15)
macOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. It is the successor to macOS Mojave. It is the first version of macOS to support only 64-bit applications. Update October 2024: Gig...
Best Practices for deploying VST plugins on Windows
In this guest blog article, you will learn about the 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...
Using SampleRobot to import sounds from proprietary plugins to a sampler for use with Gig Performer
In this article we will show you how to use SampleRobot to import sounds from proprietary plugins to a sampler for use with Gig Performer. Important note: Gig Performer version 4.7 which was released in August 2019, has its own powerful built-in Auto Sampler feature....
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
In this article, we will show you how to use the same set of PC messages to select parts in any song. Background 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...
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 Performer....
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
You can find the main article that also includes the updated remote control Lemur template here.------------------------- 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...