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...
Guest blog written by Greg Nelson . Shortly after the turn of the current century, I started to experiment with Virtual Studio Technology, and was very impressed with various software emulations of organs and synthesizers, and sampled pianos. I started to explore the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MacOS has a nice built-in feature called IAC (Inter-app Communication) that allows you to connect MIDI applications together and communicate with each other. (There's nothing built into Windows but there are third-party applications like virtualMIDI that do the same...
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 to make sure that...
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...
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 valid digital signature that...
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 are...