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...
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...
It's usually convenient to have GP load the last gig file automatically at startup and there's a general option you can check for this to be the default. However, occasionally you may need to temporarily prevent automatic loading. One reason is because you do want...
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 gigs, our community forums should be your first stop. Do a search there first and if...
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 hosts or DAWs. If you encounter this situation,...
Check the properties of all of your widgets in the rackspace. Also check the Global MIDI controls. You will most likely discover that you accidentally "learned" either a Note On or a Note Off event. When a MIDI event is learned for the purpose of...
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 plugins as if they had never been seen before. It was...
June 12th, 2017 The latest update of Arturia's wonderful plugin collection has changed the way that they restore the state of their plugins when reloaded. Consequently the plugins do not correctly respond to a request from Gig Performer 1.6 to restore their state and so some...
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...
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...
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 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 have...
NB: This problem is fixed in version 1.0.4 If you assign an OSC handle to a name, change it and THEN change a parameter, Gig Performer will crash. The workaround is to save the gig after you change the name and then reloading it....
Note: This issue is fixed as of version 1.0.4. Every time you start Gig Performer, by default it does a quick check to see if there are any new plugins. If Gig Performer tells you every time you start that it is testing a plugin that was tested last...
Plugins have to be validated before they are used by plugin hosts. This is normally done automatically by Gig Performer when it starts up and detects a new plugin. Sometimes a particular plugin may take longer than expected, perhaps because it's trying to connect to a...
Turns out it's not! What has happened is that Crystal 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 are displayed (because...