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 controls....
Knowledge Base Articles
After updating Gig Performer, some of my plugins were not found
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...
Upgrading from Gig Performer® 1 to newer editions
Note: the latest Gig Performer edition is Gig Performer 4. If you are our existing user, please see our upgrade options. NEW GIG PERFORMER® EDITION REQUIRES A NEW LICENSE CODE. WITHOUT A NEW LICENSE CODE, GIG PERFORMER® WILL RUN IN TRIAL MODE FOR 14 DAYS. We do...
How to create two Gig Performer instances with a single client ASIO Driver on Windows
Gig Performer has built-in support for multiple instances. Creating a second Gig Performer instance is easy. Just select File -> Create New Instance... (or open an existing one) and you're all set: This works great on macOS and on many Windows computers without...
The upgrade has been aborted – cannot update Gig Performer
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...
Toggle MIDI plugins on/off in the same rackspace without getting stuck notes
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...
Using Recall Value On Load and Also recall on Activate widget options
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 but it may...
Learning Superior Drummer 3 parameters
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...
All gig files gone after update – Gig Performer also rescanned all plugins
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...
Use host automation rather than MIDI to control plugin parameters
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...
How to sync Gig Performer to an external MIDI Clock
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...
NSInternalInconsistencyException Couldn’t posix_spawn: error 35
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...