At this year’s NAMM show we will be debuting Version 3 of Gig Performer, our VST, VST3, AU live performance audio plug-in host for Mac and Windows systems.
At the Anaheim Convention Center, January 24-27, live demonstrations of Gig Performer 3.0 will be presented at Ilio (ACC Hall A, booth #11910) and TASCAM (ACC North Hall #18910).
Renowned for its rock-solid stability, low CPU usage, ease of use, and flexibility, Gig Performer 3 adds a bevy of powerful new capabilities, especially to the program’s control features.
The Setlists feature
The addition of setlists came largely by popular request. In Gig Performer, users create complete systems of plug-ins and controllers and store them as rackspaces. Each rackspace can have settings presets called “variations.” Gig Performer 3 adds the ability to create setlists of songs, each song consisting of a number of parts. You link Song parts to rackspace variations.
Before, Gig Performer users often created a rackspace for each song. Gig Performer 3 setlists allow reusing rackspaces. For example, you can reuse a single rackspace containing an acoustic piano sound to cover 10 songs needing piano. Reusing rackspaces greatly reduces load times and memory needs. Guitarists will love that they can access a song part using a MIDI pedal controller. You can also use a control surface or Gig Performer’s main window. New OSC commands load songs or song parts.
Song parts can be laid out onscreen to mimic the physical layout of a MIDI foot controller. This makes the display more intuitive to use.
Predictive loading
Gig Performer’s Predictive Loading feature slims resource demands by loading only the next few rackspaces that will be needed. You can now apply this feature at the song level. All parts of a song are loaded into memory when the song is selected for glitchless, instant switching. At the same time, Predictive Loading limits CPU and memory requirements.
Bidirectional MIDI control
Control surface support has been strengthened with the addition of bidirectional MIDI control of widgets. The program now allows programming and transmitting SysEx messages. You typically use SysEx (MIDI System Exclusive) messages with hardware synthesizers.
Gig Performer 3 displaying the Chords/Lyrics window for the current song.
ChordPro
Gig Performer 3 adds support for the Chord Pro lead sheet format. You can create, edit, and link Chord Pro documents to songs in a setlist. A chords-and-lyrics chart can be opened when a song is selected.
Ableton Link
Version 3 also introduces the ability to synchronize Gig Performer with other applications on a wireless network, using Ableton Link. Design workflow enhancements include inserting multiple widgets simultaneously and using new keyboard shortcuts to arrange them on a rack panel.
MIDI Recorder
To supplement Gig Performer’s popular Audio Recorder, Gig Performer 3 adds a MIDI recorder. The MIDI recorder records incoming events from each MIDI device that you connect to Gig Performer to a separate track. It uses the 1 Standard MIDI File (SMF) format. You can import it into a DAW for post-processing.
Related topics:
– Still on Gig Performer 3? Ten keys reasons to upgrade (Blog)
– What’s new in Gig Performer 4 (User Manual)
– Gig Performer in Action at NAMM 2022 (Community)