Touring musicians who don't bring their own controllers and instead depend on the use of back-lined or rented keyboards sometimes run into a problem where Gig Performer doesn't work properly even though it was "just fine" when they rehearsed with their own controllers. Gig Performer's Rig...
Sadly, if you do a search, there are numerous websites out there that purport to provide you with a download for Gig Performer, perhaps even for free. Unfortunately, they're all illegitimate and generally their goal is to get you to install malware on your computer. As...
There have been a few reports where Gig Performer does not show any MIDI Output ports on Ventura 13.1 — note that this was not an issue on initial release of Ventura. It seems that Apple has introduced a bug into MIDI handling. The fix is...
For several reasons, we do not provide any sponsorship programs. Our testimonials are all from artists who have themselves purchased Gig Performer and that allows potential users to feel comfortable that the opinions from such artists can be taken seriously - they’re not paid advertisements. ...
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We regret that Gig Performer 3 (GP3) and earlier have not been tested with Windows 11 as and are not supported on that platform. We encourage such users to upgrade to Gig Performer 4 as it not only has significantly more functionality but is supported on...
If you would like a particular gig file to always start with the global transpose set to some non-zero value, there’s a very easy way to do this 1. Insert a widget in your Global rackspace 2. Insert a System Actions plugin in your Global rackspace 3. Map...
Scenario So you’ve created your gigfile and it’s running perfectly on your laptop with all your plugins. Then you decide you should have a second laptop as a backup in case your primary laptop breaks down …. not that we’re worried about Gig Performer crashing during...
Tech note #1 The goal of this article is to simply explain rackspaces and variations for users who are already familiar with the basics of Gig Performer. What exactly is a rackspace? A rackspace is the container for a collection of interconnected plugins representing how audio or MIDI...
It has come to our attention that at least one VST3 plugin from IK Multimedia, their "TR5 Opto Compressor", is “leaking” MIDI. What this means is that even though that plugin has indicated that it does not accept incoming MIDI, it will in fact still respond...
The Temporary Startup Options dialog is a new feature in Gig Performer 4 that allows you to change certain settings when you first open Gig Performer: Changes in this dialog will not be permanent, i.e. when you start Gig Performer again, all changes will be reverted...
Background . The ChordPro/Lyric window in Gig Performer does not yet have built-in support for viewing PDF files. However, since it does support images, a workaround is to convert PDF files into image pages that can be used by our viewer. However, it is time consuming to...
Update (May 31st, 2023) As of May 31st, 2023, the Plugin Alliance editions of Gig Performer are no longer available for sale and will not be updated. Gig Performer can now be purchased exclusively from its developer Deskew Technologies, LLC in their Online Store. More information on...
Background . Apple recently released a new line of computers using their new M1 ARM based microprocessors, also known as Apple Silicon. These processors cannot directly run applications developed for older Intel processors. To address this issue, Apple uses an intermediary application called Rosetta that converts (on-the-fly) older Intel...
In this article learn about system requirements for Gig Performer 4.0. macOS Intel processors : 10.9 or greater Native Apple Silicon: 11.2 or greater . Windows: 64-bit operating system only Windows 7 with SP1 or newer - Windows 10 is recommended . RAM and disk requirements . Gig Performer...
If you have a plugin that you never use (and who doesn’t!), then you can disable it in the Plugin Manager by selecting the plugin and clicking the “Enabled” switch to disable it such that it will no longer show up in any plugin menus. If...
Gig Performer 4 can open gig files created with earlier versions of Gig Performer and for the most part, everything will just work without change. However, there are a few changes in behavior that might require you to modify slightly some of your rackspaces. General. The MIDI In...
Gig Performer 3.x and 4.x documentation links: .Gig Performer 3: Gig Performer 3 User Guide: Userguide 3x GPScript 3 documentation: GPScript 3x Gig Performer 3 System Functions: GP3 System Functions . Gig Performer 4: Gig Performer 4 User Guide Gig Performer 4 GP Script Language Manual Gig Performer 4 System_Functions ...
In this article you will learn how to change the underlying MIDI Input device for all MIDI In blocks in all rackspaces. Problem: All your MIDI In blocks refer to a specific MIDI input device (i.e, a specific keyboard connected over USB) but you have just...
A few Gig Performer users have reported a problem where, after loading a gig file, the fans (laptop fans, not your audience!) turn on, your computer gets hot and your activity monitor or task manager indicates that Gig Performer is using a huge amount of...
So, does it? . Well, gee, it should but there are many thousands of plugins out there, there’s simply no way for us to even find them all, never mind do any serious testing to make sure they work! We don’t know specifically of any plugin that does...
If USB MIDI Port names keep changing on your Windows computer when you attach your MIDI controller, unfortunately, this is a well-known issue on Windows, all the way back to Windows XP. The solution to this issue is described here. and involves the use of a...
In this article I'll present you a new feature that was introduced in Gig Performer v3.80, which allows you to find out which plugin crashed Gig Performer. A plugin may crash any audio plugin host and there can be many reasons why, e.g.: The plugin has compatibility...
You need an internet connection to activate (but not to actually use) your Gig Performer trial and then again to activate a full license. Once you have activated Gig Performer on your computer, you can run it without an internet connection. Further, as long as you...
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 will most likely be prompted to allow access to the Microphone and you must allow this. The prompt is a little bit...
Gig Performer is an audio plugin host that supports AudioUnit (AU) plugins, VST3 and VST plugins. AU plugins are Mac-only: Generally, if you install or update an Audio Unit plugin, you have to log out or possibly even reboot your computer before the updated AU becomes...
One of our users, @progloverfan, posted this helpful tip on our Community forums for Windows users that may be helpful to anyone trying to tweak their PC to make it more efficient. Carefully review your BIOS settings and power management settings. Here’s a copy of...
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...
It is safe to update Gig Performer, your plugins or your operating system (macOS or Windows) - unless: you’re about to go on tour, or are in the middle of one, or otherwise expect to use Gig Performer in the very short term for a recording session (for...
Gig Performer is an audio plugin host that has been shown to be very reliable in terms of its ability to load plugins (VST2, VST3 and AU (Mac only) from pretty much every plugin developer out there. Plugins from all the major developers (Native Instruments,...
We use FastSpring to process payments for Gig Performer. As noted on FastSpring website, "Customers that are exempt from paying VAT or GST can prevent tax from being collected on their order by providing their valid VAT ID or GST ID at the time of purchase. For...
If you’re running macOS Mojave (10.14) or newer (e.g, Catalina, 10.15), you need to give Gig Performer permission to use the microphone (I know - you’re using an audio interface, not the microphone, sigh) otherwise no audio will be received by Gig Performer. The first time...
Depending on how particular AU, VST3 or VST plugins needed to be activated, it may be the case that the Gig Performer's plugin scanner was unable to validate them. There are four main reasons this might happen: The plugin is proprietary, The plugin is 32-bit, ...
This issue mostly happens on Windows with incompatible ASIO drivers but it can also happen if a plugin crash due to its inability to handle sample rate changes that occur after that plugin has been loaded. Try one of the following: 1) Stop Gig Performer from automatically...
ASIO4ALL was originally designed to provide low latency support for audio interfaces that did not already support ASIO on Windows systems. However, depending on your configuration, your audio interface and its drivers, ASIO4ALL can either help or hinder. If you are having trouble getting Gig Performer to...
No refunds - sorry! As indicated on our Frequently Asked Questions page, Deskew Technologies, LLC has a strict no-refund policy once a customer has activated Gig Performer. We have a 14-day fully functional trial version so that potential customers can try out all its features to...
Each Gig Performer 4 license allows Gig Performer to be activated on up to three computers simultaneously belonging to the purchaser of that license. Activations may not be shared with others and doing so violates the terms of the license agreement. The cost of Gig Performer...
It's usually convenient to have Gig Performer load the last gig file automatically at startup and there's a general option that controls this behavior. However, occasionally you may need to temporarily prevent automatic gig file loading. One reason is because you do want to load...
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 functionality, the Lemur template...
Symptom: After downloading the trial version of Gig Performer, a blank dialog pops up and there's nothing to click on. Background: This issue has only been reported a couple of times. From our investigation, this appears to be some kind of incompatibility between GPU acceleration and...
We want to do our very best to support every Gig Performer user. For general help with using Gig Performer, tips and tricks, ways to develop ever more sophisticated gig files, our community forums should be your first stop. Do a search there first and...
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...
If you are running Gig Performer on a Windows computer, your VST3 and VST plugins can be installed in arbitrary locations specified by the plugin developer and/or modified by you. In either case, if some of your plugins do not show up in Gig Performer,...
If you have a particularly high resolution Windows tablet, it may be that some plugin editor windows are displayed too small. You can address this by adjusting Windows scaling behavior. Right click on the application icon and click Properties. Go over to the Compatibility tab, then click...
(Updated: May 20th, 2018) Synapse has released a new version of The Legend that fixes this issue. Please make sure you are running at least version 1.22 of The Legend. A customer recently reported that Gig Performer was hanging on his Mac when certain rackspaces were selected...
A Windows customer recently reported a problem where they found that they could not listen to their music with apps like Spotify or Pandora while using Gig Performer even though this seemed to work when using other audio plugin hosts or DAWs. If you encounter this...
As a matter of policy, Deskew Technologies, LLC does not participate in deep discounted sales of Gig Performer. Given its functionality, we believe that Gig Performer is very fairly priced and we feel strongly that discounted pricing serves only to erroneously devalue the product. We offer a...
If you experience an issue where one of the notes on your keyboard stopped working or you are getting a stuck note, please check: - the properties of all of your widgets in the rackspace. (the MIDI Assignment List window is helpful here), - the Global MIDI...
Scenario: Gig Performer is running fine on your Windows computer and a Gig Performer update becomes available - but before you update, you uninstall your current version or an automatic third-party uninstaller removes all references to Gig Performer. Don't do that! We repeat, don't do that! If...
Note: the latest Gig Performer edition is Gig Performer 4. If you are our existing user, please see our upgrade options. [icons size='' custom_size='' icon='fa-stop' type='normal' position='' border='yes' border_color='' icon_color='' background_color='' margin='' icon_animation='' icon_animation_delay='' link='' target='_self'] NEW GIG PERFORMER® EDITION REQUIRES A NEW LICENSE CODE. WITHOUT...
Gig Performer has built-in support for multiple instances. Creating a second Gig Performer instance is easy. Just select File -> Create New Instance...
If you have been prompted that a Gig Performer update/upgrade is available but the update fails to install, perhaps with a message such as, “Something went wrong”, then there is most likely a permissions problem on your computer which is preventing the program from being...
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...
By default, Gig Performer saves the values of all widgets using a "last value saved" algorithm. That means that when you change a widget value and save your gig, then when you reload your gig, that widget will have the same value. This is very convenient...
A customer reported that Gig Performer would not learn mixer faders in Superior Drummer 3 (SD3). Thanks to some help from Toontrack which we greatly appreciate, we discovered that SD3 requires an extra step. You cannot simply move any parameter in SD3 and have it...
A customer, understandably panicked, contacted us to report that after installing the latest update, when he ran Gig Performer he just got an empty rackspace. Also, Gig Performer started a complete scan of his VST and AudioUnit plugins as if they had never been seen...
If you're trying to control a plugin parameter directly from your physical hardware, you may be tempted to use the audio plugin's MIDI mechanism, possibly because that's all that was available to you before you started using Gig Performer. However if you're using Gig Performer, you...
As of version 1.6, Gig Performer can sync to an external MIDI clock, adjusting tempo automatically based on the rate at which MIDI clock events are received. Note: there is a new blog article that covers Gig Performer 4 and tempo synchronization. Check out this link...
In a crash report recently received, we noted that the message was as follows: Application Specific Information: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Couldn't posix_spawn: error 35' We have absolutely no idea what this means. A google search indicates that this error is occasionally produced...
If you have multiple instruments inserted into a single Kontakt instance, you can easily route each instrument its own audio output pair so that you can subsequently route each instrument through different effects in Gig Performer. The easy way to do that is to insert...
While audio plugins often support directly MIDI learning, when you're using a plugin with an audio plugin host such as Gig Performer, the preferred way to control plugin parameters is through host automation. Unfortunately, Keyscape (like Omnisphere) does not enable host automation support by default...
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 will also see how...
If you wish to move an existing Gig Performer installation to another computer, apart from your gig files, or if you need to perform a Windows Restore to revert to a previous Windows state, or if you are upgrading your operating system, you will need...
As mentioned on our various blog posts, we sometimes recommend third-party tools and applications that we feel will be beneficial to our users. In most cases, we will have worked with such tools ourselves, so our suggestions are not just based on our having read...
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 TouchOSC running on your iPad or Android tablet, you will generally specify the IP...
In the Windows world, audio plugin developers are free to install their plugins anywhere. So for Gig Performer to find them, you have to tell it in which folders to look. To do this, follow these steps: Open the Plugin Manager, which can be found...
Depending on your settings, when you try to install Gig Performer on Windows, you may see a dialog one or more of the following: The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software This file does not have a...
If you are unable to get Gig Performer widgets to learn Omnisphere plugin parameters, it is probably the case that Host Automation is not enabled in Omnisphere. Please click on this support page at Spectrasonics for instructions on how to enable Host Automation in Omnisphere. Once you...
Gig Performer 3 allows you to create multiple "gigs" at the same time and they are completely independent of each other, each one separately controllable. We had a couple of scenarios in mind for this feature for your live performance such as allowing vocals to...
Both bands (The Security Project and Beyond The Wall) with whom I play use a monitoring system where everyone gets their own personal mix. If you're using an in-ear system, this approach is terrific. You can tweak your mix to hear exactly what you need...
The built-in MIDI In OMNI plugin in Gig Performer is very convenient as it doesn't care from where your MIDI is coming, it will process everything. If you have a single keyboard (or perhaps just a single MIDI pedalboard if you're a guitarist) then the...
Every audio application that has a CPU meter shows the audio CPU usage rather than the overall application usage, as do plugins that have CPU activity monitoring. Some applications, even when they are at rest, i.e, when no audio is playing, will use significant CPU cycles. In...
You may wonder what are the best audio plugins to get for your audio plugin host or a DAW. The truth ist - we can't answer that for you - everyone has different needs and taste. But we will provide you with resources to make your...
In this article learn more what to do if Gig Performer doesn't find your AU, VST or VST3 plugin. Generally, plugins have to be validated before they are used by audio plugin hosts such as Cantabile, Mainstage or Gig Performer. The validation procedure is normally done...
Turns out it's not! What has happened is that the Crystal synth plugin defines about 768 parameters but only a few of them are actually used. The rest are simply unnamed, so have empty strings. Since Gig Performer only has a small area where plugin parameters...
----------------- First of all, the bad news is that you can't do it directly. Gig Performer is a 64-bit application and so can only load audio plugins that are also 64-bit. If you are using OS X and you have upgraded to Catalina (OS X 10.15) or...
Gig Performer is an audio plugin host (AU, VST3 and VST host) for live performance that allows you to capture what are you playing. As of Gig Performer 4.5, you can record inputs and outputs in mono or stereo (watch this video to learn more). If...
Gig Performer allows you to use the same physical layout for many rackspaces. Unlike some other audio plugin hosts where you have a single place to associate certain widgets with physical knobs and sliders, each rackspace can have individual associations. This means that in one...
Gig Performer has a built-in system that detects crashes and (with your permission) can send us that information so that we can fix the problem. In the event that this dialog shows up (the most frequent cause is when a plugin crash), we would appreciate it...
OSC (Open Sound Control) is a protocol that can be used to control one application from another, with a particular focus on applications used by artists and performers. You can associate OSC names with plugins and widgets and then send messages to them from a remote device to control their operation. This allows you to create control surfaces with faders and buttons that can be adjusted to perform such operations as controlling the output volume of each plugin, adjust plugin parameters such as the cutoff filter of a softsynth. You can even send OSC messages to the Gig Performer that will cause it to play notes.
A customer noticed that Gig Performer seemed to be responding poorly at times and after investigation discovered that under some circumstances it looked like Gig Performer was writing many many megabytes of data to the hard drive when changing from one rackspace to another. The...
Scaling curves allow you to control the shape of the output of a widget or convert an incoming note velocity to a new velocity. Various predefined curves are available and they can be tweaked as necessary. You can also just draw your own curve as well to achieve the effect you require.
Create a sound by placing and interconnecting your desired plugins, such as a synth, some effects and perhaps a mixer. Select them all and then save the selection as a named favorite. The favorite will subsequently show up in all plugin insert menus, making it easy for you to recreate that configuration whenever you need it again. This feature is also very powerful for creating your needed sounds on your studio computer and then transferring them to your touring laptop.
Parameters you select in an open plugin are captured into the Probabilistic Sound Designer dialog window. When you click Randomize, you're only adjusting those selected parameters. Each entry in the PSD dialog has a curve but unlike widgets where the curve controls scaling, in the PSD the curves are used to define the probability of particular values being selected. Make sure the filter cutoff never gets too slow so as to block all sound. Perhaps adjust the max range of the VCA attack parameter so that the sound doesn't have too much delay. Constrain the octave ranges of the oscillators, perhaps ensuring that 1/3rd of the time we select 8' and 2/3rds of the time we select 4'. The possibilities are endless.
Numerous new widgets are included in Gig Performer - a new sustain pedal, plastic knobs, drum pads and more colored sliders. Shapes can be colored with different borders and fill colors and morphed from rectangular to circular. Your creativity is now the limit to creating fabulous front panels in Gig Performer.
Some plugins support a large number of outputs and they depend on the traditional channel strip to control how many ports should be available. When you only need a stereo pair, it is convenient not to have a large horizontal block. In Gig Performer, the number of available ports is controlled by the channel count override, which can be applied to individual plugins and will be remembered when the gigfile is reloaded or if the plugin is saved as a favorite.
Rather than a single audio length tail, Gig Performer 4 gives you the ability to control input muting and output fading separately. Input muting controls how much time it takes for audio input to be silenced when you leave the rackspace. Output fading controls how much time will be taken for audio to fade out when you leave the rackspace.
