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Knowledge Base Articles

How to control Keyscape parameters from Gig Performer

How to control Keyscape parameters from Gig Performer

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...

Recommendations and discounts

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 about...

OSC Broadcast Mode

OSC Broadcast Mode

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...

How to tell Gig Performer the location of your plugins

How to tell Gig Performer the location of your plugins

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 under the Window menu...

How do I get widgets to learn Omnisphere parameters?

How do I get widgets to learn Omnisphere parameters?

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...

Use a separate Gig Performer instance as your “effects box”

Use a separate Gig Performer instance as your “effects box”

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 use an...

Controlling your personal mix with Gig Performer

Controlling your personal mix with Gig Performer

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 without any...

The MIDI In OMNI plugin and the potential for MIDI feedback

The MIDI In OMNI plugin and the potential for MIDI feedback

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 MIDI In OMNI...