In this article: learn more about ChordPro files, how to find them or create your own, and how to use them in Gig Performer. What is ChordPro? ChordPro is a file format that allows you to represent lyrics and chords using text markup that can then be...
To ensure that you have not downloaded a corrupt version of Gig Performer, or worse, a version into which malware has been injected, you can verify that your downloaded installer is legitimate by running a command that produces a unique code when applied to the...
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...
In this article I’ll show you how to control your guitar or keyboard effects (or any other instrument effects) by using a Web browser on any computer, laptop, smartphone or device, and OSC in Gig Performer. Previous blog articles covered proprietary applications for your mobile phone...
In this article I'll show you how to use your Android mobile phone or tablet to control your guitar or keyboard effects (or any other instrument effects) by using OSC in Gig Performer. Gig Performer, our audio plugin host for live performance, supports full OSC implementation....
In this article I'll present several websites where you can find and download free VST, VST3 or AU audio plugins, install them and use them in the audio plugin host Gig Performer, on Windows or Mac. Gig Performer doesn't include any audio plugins, and three main...
Gig Performer is designed to be a very flexible host to allow you not only to create your sounds but also to perform, in real time, on stage or in a studio. We’re not talking about playing 8 bars with one sound, stopping to switch...
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...
Generally, if you update an Audio Unit, you have to log out or possibly even reboot your computer before the updated AU becomes visible. If you don’t do this, the old AU will still be registered and so Gig Performer will not find the new...
If you’re running Mojave (10.14) or newer (e.g, Catalina, 10.15), you need to give Gig Performer permission to use the microphone (I know - you’re using an audio interface, not the microphone, sigh) otherwise no audio will be received by Gig Performer. The first time you...
Depending on how particular plugins needed to be activated, it may be the case that the Gig Performer Plugin scanner was unable to validate it. There are four main reasons this might happen, The plugin is proprietary The plugin is 32-bit The plugin is corrupt ...
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, 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 being updated. You...
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, or if you need to perform a Windows Restore to revert to a previous Windows installation, or if you are upgrading your operating system, you will need...
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...
Update: If you have upgraded to Catalina (OS X 10.15) you will not be able to load 32-bit plugins at all. Don’t even bother trying! ----------------- First of all, the bad news is that you can't do it directly. Gig Performer is a 64-bit application and so...