Gig Performer 4.7 includes a new neat feature that allows you to manually refresh all widgets mapped to a plugin's parameters. Broadcasting parameter changes to a host . When you change a factory preset of a plugin, the whole plugin state is reloaded; as a rule of...
Touring musicians who don't bring their own controllers and instead depend on the use of back-lined or rented keyboards sometimes run into a problem where Gig Performer doesn't work properly even though it was "just fine" when they rehearsed with their own...
The normal way to use widgets is to map them to plugin parameters and to optionally have them learn a MIDI message so you can control that widget from a knob, slider or button on a keyboard or other MIDI controller. However, in some rare cases, you might like to...
In this blog article you will learn how to save and export various elements in Gig Performer, load and import them, and create a backup of your important files and the whole computer. The term "element" may refer to your panel, rackspace, song, widget curve, rig as...
Gig Performer is an audio plugin host for live performance available for both Windows and macOS. In this article you will learn about cross-platform usage and some considerations when you are migrating from Windows to macOS or vice-versa. Gig Performer supports VST...
If you are experiencing issues with your computer-based setup, this article will help you to troubleshoot it. The goal of every performing musician is to have a glitch-free and reliable setup for their gigs. If things start to go awry, don't worry - we have compiled...
In this article you will learn how to make various elements of Gig Performer bigger and making them suitable for smaller displays, touch screen devices or simply tweaking options to better match your preferences. The first two tips that will be presented are...
In this article, you will learn how to remember the global transpose between gigs. If you would like a particular gig file to always start with the global transpose set to some non-zero value, there’s a very easy way to do this: 1. Insert a widget in your Global...
In this article, you will learn about panels and widgets and useful tips for designing your panels. Before we start, if necessary, please check out user manual topics to become familiar with Panels, Widgets and other basic terms in Gig Performer. Some musicians don't...
In this article you will learn about tips and tricks to optimize your plugin usage. Or community forum is a great knowledge resource. Here and there we stumble upon many that can help reduce one's CPU and RAM usage. We decided to compile some of these tips in this...
In this blog article, we will show you how to implement incremental transpose. Suppose you’d like to have a couple of buttons on your MIDI controller that just increment or decrement the global transpose amount. Important note: Gig Performer 4.5 has built-in support...
Gig Performer has a global transpose parameter, normally set to zero. You can of course manually adjust this value by clicking on it and entering a new transpose value directly or by using the UP/DOWN arrows to increment/decrement respectively its value. The new value...