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...
Quick answer - if you’re using Gig Performer, it’s pretty trivial. I never used side chaining myself. In fact I wasn’t even sure what it was for a long time. But I got forced into find out a few days when a potential customer asked if...
We recently got a question from a user who wanted to be able to switch rackspaces and variations using a Novation Launchpad. However, that product only produces MIDI Note Events but Gig Performer expects Program Change MIDI events so what do you do? While such things...
(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...
Due to the way that Acoustic Samples B5 exposes host parameters in UVI Workstation/Falcon, Gig Performer 1.x does not properly handle ranges in the AU plugin. For example, if you map a Gig Performer drawbar widget to a drawbar in Acoustic Samples B5, the Gig...
If you have been prompted that an update/upgrade is available but the update fails to install, then there is a permissions problem on your computer which is preventing the program from being updated. You have two options: Simply download the latest installer directly from our...
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...
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...
If you're trying to control a plugin parameter directly from your physical hardware, you may be tempted to use the 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 will...
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. Gig Performer will respond to start and stop MIDI events with the play button turning green for the...
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...
OS X 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 kind of thing.) However, there...
If you wish to move an existing Gig Performer installation to another machine, apart from your gig files, you will need to make sure that you copy Gig Performer's configuration files otherwise you will lose all your global settings including global MIDI, OSC info, your...
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...
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...
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 plugins that are also 64-bit. However, there are some applications available that can wrap 32-bit plugins so that they can be...