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...
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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
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...
No sound or guitar audio is not coming into Gig Performer on Mojave or Catalina
If you hear no sound, or guitar audio is not coming into Gig Performer on macOS, check the Microphone permissions. If you’re running macOS Mojave (10.14) or newer you need to give Gig Performer permission to use the microphone. Otherwise no audio will be received by...
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
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
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...
How to change programs in Gig Performer if you can only send Note messages
We recently got a question from a user who wanted to be able to switch rackspaces and variations using Note messages on a Novation Launchpad. The Launchpad only produces MIDI Note messages, but Gig Performer expects Program Change MIDI events. What to do? Important...
Gig Performer seems to hang on some rackspaces after installing The Legend – solved
A new update of The Legend fixes the issue in this plugin. Please update. Updated: May 20th, 2018 Synapse has released a new version of this link that fixes this issue in this plugin. Please make sure you are running at least version 1.22. A customer recently reported...
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....
Toggle MIDI plugins on/off in the same rackspace without getting stuck notes
In this article, you will learn how to toggle MIDI plugins on/off in the same rackspace without getting stuck notes Gig Performer allows you to distinguish between NoteOn and NoteOff events in our MIDI Filter plugin: Why is this interesting? Well, turns out it gives...
All gig files gone after update – Gig Performer also rescanned all plugins
A customer, understandably panicked, contacted us to report an issue. 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 VST and AudioUnit plugins as if the update turned...