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Recording your Gig Performer performance with a DAW

Recording your Gig Performer performance with a DAW

At some point, you may be interested in recording your Gig Performer performance with a DAW.. Background .Gig Performer is designed to be a very flexible audio plugin host to allow you not only to create your sounds but also to perform, in real time, on stage or in a...

Gig Performer and Mac Catalina (OS X 10.15)

Gig Performer and Mac Catalina (OS X 10.15)

macOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. It is the successor to macOS Mojave. It is the first version of macOS to support only 64-bit applications. Update October 2024: Gig...

After installing an updated AU plugin, Gig Performer doesn’t find it

After installing an updated AU plugin, Gig Performer doesn’t find it

If you have just updated your AU plugin, but Gig Performer does not 'see' the updated version, see the tip below. Gig Performer is an audio plugin host that supports AudioUnit (AU) plugins, VST3 and VST plugins. AU plugins are Mac-only: Generally, if you install or...

Installed plugin does not show up in Gig Performer

Installed plugin does not show up in Gig Performer

In this article, you will learn about possible culprits when your plugin does not show up in Gig Performer, after you have installed it. . Why a plugin cannot be validated . Depending on how particular AU, VST3 or VST plugins needed to be activated, it may be the case...

Gig Performer and JamOrigin’s MIDI Guitar 2 plugin

Gig Performer and JamOrigin’s MIDI Guitar 2 plugin

Jam Origin's MIDI Guitar 2 plugin is a wonderful plugin if you need to convert your guitar sound into MIDI. Background MIDI Guitar is a revolutionary piece of software that converts your guitars analog audio signal into a digital MIDI signal. This makes it possible to...

Side-chaining – really easy with Gig Performer

Side-chaining – really easy with Gig Performer

You may be wondering how to implement side-chaining in your audio plugin host. Quick answer: if you’re using Gig Performer, it’s pretty trivial. Note: At the time of writing this article, we used Gig Performer 3. However, the same concept applies to more recent...

The upgrade has been aborted – cannot update Gig Performer

If you see the prompt that a Gig Performer 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 to update....